David Nimmer graduated from the University of Wisconsin in 1963, with a major in print journalism. He spent 15 years at The Minneapolis Star, 11 as a reporter and the last four as its managing editor. He left The Star to become a reporter for WCCO Television News. He did reporting for all 10 years and was the associate news director for the last four years at ‘CCO.
From 1989 through 2000, he was an assistant of professor of journalism at The University of St. Thomas. He is now a professor emeritus and has worked extensively as a volunteer with ThreeSixty, particularly with broadcast students. He won ThreeSixty’s Widening the Circle Award in 2006 to honor his extraordinary contributions to the next generation of journalists.
Nimmer loves to fish and describes this part of as life, with a Medicare card and a yoga mat, as a spiritual journey.
