David Michael Dunavant (born 1970) is an American lawyer who served as the United States Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee from 2017 to 2021.

[2] In June 2017, Dunavant was nominated by President Donald Trump to become the United States Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee.

He was confirmed by the United States Senate on September 14, 2017; becoming the chief law-enforcement officer for the 22 counties that make up Tennessee's western judicial district, which includes the Memphis area.

[2] According to Ryan J. Reilly in HuffPost, Dunavant is "an unflinching critic of criminal justice reformers."

"[3] He criticized Alice Marie Johnson, a 64-year-old federal prisoner whose sentence was commuted by Trump in 2018 to time served, after Johnson had been imprisoned for 21 years of a life sentence for involvement in a cocaine trafficking operation.