David Hudgins is an award-winning screenwriter and Executive Producer of multiple television series. Originally from Dallas, Texas, Mr. Hudgins is a graduate of St. Mark’s School and Duke University. He began his career in the United States Senate, as a Staff Assistant to Senator Al Gore. He then obtained his law degree from SMU and spent eight years working as a trial lawyer with the firm Touchstone, Bernays, Johnston, Beall & Smith in Dallas.

In 2001, following the untimely death of his sister from breast cancer, Mr. Hudgins made a radical life change. He quit the practice of law, and moved to the hills of Tennessee to pursue screenwriting full time. Two years later, after the sale of his first feature screenplay Scottsboro, Mr.Hudgins continued his journey by moving to Los Angeles to begin working in television.

His first job was as a Staff Writer on the WB television show Everwood. Mr. Hudgins spent three seasons writing for the production, rising to the rank of Co-Producer. He then moved to the NBC drama Friday Night Lights, where he served for three seasons as a writer and Co-Executive Producer.

In 2009, Mr. Hudgins created and ran Past Life for Warner Brothers Television, a one-hour drama that aired on the Fox Broadcasting Network. He then returned to Friday Night Lights, serving as showrunner and Executive Producer on the show’s fifth and final season, before moving on to Parenthood, where he spent four seasons as a writer and Executive Producer.

In March 2014, Mr. Hudgins moved his overall deal to Sony Pictures Television, where he is currently writing and shooting a pilot for the drama series Game of Silence, and also adapting The New York Times bestselling novel Natchez Burning for cable, with Tobey Maguire attached to produce and star.

For his work in television, Mr. Hudgins has received multiple Emmy and Writer’s Guild Award nominations, including Best Drama Series for Friday Night Lights. He is also a recipient of the Peabody Award for Excellence in Broadcasting.

Mr. Hudgins is President of The Catherine H. Tuck Foundation, a breast cancer charity he founded in 2012 in honor of his late sister. A frequent guest speaker and industry panelist, Mr. Hudgins also serves on the Board of Trustees for The Humanitas Foundation and the Austin Television Festival.

Mr. Hudgins lives in Brentwood, California with his wife Meghan and their four sons Jackson, Brooks, Reid and Owen.

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