David Charles Mitchell (13 March 1934 – 6 May 2018) was a minister of the Presbyterian Church of Australia, a specialist in constitutional law and Solicitor-General for Lesotho.

[5][6] He subsequently joined the Commonwealth Public Service, where he was responsible for legal matters in Papua New Guinea for the then Department of External Territories.

[3] The Department sponsored him to, and he was a graduate of the International Institute of Human Rights in Strasbourg, France,[7] before being seconded to Lesotho.

He successfully presented the case for the government of Lesotho to the Security Council of the United Nations which resulted in an aid package of $US113 million.

[16][17][18][19][20] He also acted as procurator for the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church of Victoria, resigning in August 2000 after serving in that post for well over a decade.

[21] Subsequently he acted temporarily in the same capacity for the South Australian Assembly of the Church in 2002,[22] and was the convener of the Tasmanian Theological Education Committee in 2003.

[27] Mitchell ran as one of two Australian Senate candidates in Tasmania for the Christian Democratic Party in the 2004 federal election.