Daniel Uhlfelder is an attorney from Walton County, Florida.^[1] He went viral after Faith Graham of WBBTV ABC 13 News interviewed him and allowed him to speak to the viewers against the opening of Florida beaches during the Coronavirus pandemic, while dressed as the Grim Reaper.

He and his wife have two children.

They volunteer and serve on the board of directors of numerous Walton County local education and charity organizations.

Uhlfelder graduated from Stanford University in three years with a Bachelor of Arts in History in 1993 and received his law degree from University of Florida's Fredric G. Levin College of Law in 1996. He attended the Georgetown University Law Center as a visiting law student.^[7]

While in law school and as an undergraduate, he served as a law clerk, summer associate, and staff aide in the White House, the United States Attorney General's Office, the United States Senate, the United States House of Representatives, and at various law firms in Florida and Washington, D.C., including Greenberg Traurig, LLP, Hopping, Green & Sams, P.A., and the Robert Augustus Harper Law Firm, P.A.

After graduating from law school, he served as a judicial law clerk to Donald M. Middlebrooks, United States District Court Judge for the Southern District of Florida in Miami. After completing his judicial clerkship with Judge Donald M. Middlebrooks, he spent two years as a trial attorney with a top trial law firm,Colson, Hicks, Eidson in Miami.

He moved to the Florida Panhandle in 2001.

He is the owner and founder of Daniel W. Uhlfelder, P.A., Attorneys at Law. His practice focuses primarily in the areas of civil and commercial litigation, construction litigation, divorce and family law, real estate, personal injury, and criminal law.

He is the first non-minority member of the Okaloosa County Branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), serving as Chair of the Legal Redress Committee. He was awarded the NAACP's Foot Soldier in the Sand Award for his work in civil rights.

He was a member of the Florida Bar's United States First Circuit Unlicensed Practice of Law Committee. He was appointed by George W. Bush to the Committee for a Sustainable Emerald Coast.

He is a member of the University of Florida Fredric G. Levin College of Law Alumni Council and the Republican Party of Florida Jewish Leadership Advisory Council.

He serves as counsel for the Catherine Cole Taylor Center for the Arts and The Tree House Episcopal Montessori School.

He is a justice advocate and founder of Make My Day PAC.^[2]

In 2019, former Governor of Arkansas and Republican Mike Huckabee filed a false bar complaint against Uhlfelder in Florida in an attempt to silence him for speaking out against Mike Huckabee's attempts to privatize public beaches in Florida. Within a month of Huckabee filing the false bar complaint, Uhlfelder’s following on Twitter grew from 400 followers to over 100,000.