ABOUT

Dan was born in Sandusky sixty-eight years ago. After graduating from Perkins High School in 1971, he attended Notre Dame University, and then University of Toledo College of Law, earning his law degree in 1979. It was then that Dan established his professional roots in the community by starting his practice here, a connection which has continuously existed ever since.

In the meantime, in 1974, Dan married his wife Bev, who followed his legal path, achieving her law degree a year after Dan. Since then, Bev has served the community in the role as Judge of Erie County Common Pleas Court, Probate Division for over twenty-four years. Dan and Bev have three children, Lauren, a prominent lawyer and entrepreneur in Charleston, S.C., Beth, who has carried on a family tradition in Sandusky by operating the Kiddie Korral Pre-School and Child Development Centers, a business Dan’s mother Doris started fifty years ago, and Michael, who along with his wife Alivia, co-own and operate the Bait House Brewery (a business started the family started in 2018), right next door to McGookey Law Offices.

Community roots certainly run deep with McGookey Law Offices!