[1] Born in Minneapolis,[2] Brink was a specialist in estate planning.
After graduating from the University of Minnesota and beginning law school at the U of M, he left to become a cryptographer in the Navy decoding Japanese messages in Washington, D.C., during World War II.
[3] While leading the ABA in 1981, Brink battled Congress in an attempt to secure the independence of the federal court system.
[7] His second wife, Irma Marie Lorentz Bong Brink, died in March 2008 at age 82.
[8] David Brink died on July 20, 2017, at the age of 97, 8 days before his 98th birthday.