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5 NEWS BRIEFS

• Florida Supreme Court justices judge

Moot Court competition

• UF Law ranked No. 5 in nation for family law

• UF Law ranked No. 1 for networking opportunities

• Students donate 1,000 service hours

• Bar president, president-elect advise UF Law students

• Tax program hosts IRS chief counsel

• New faculty and promotions

8 BUILDING FROM THE GROUND UP

Dean Laura A. Rosenbury’s bid to transform

UF Law into a national powerhouse

15 AUSPICIOUS ANNIVERSARY

Cuban-American Lawyers Program 40 years later

18 GATOR IN HAVANA

Former ABA President Stephen N. Zack (JD 71)

watches U.S. flag rise in Cuba

20 TOP-TIER FAMILY LAW

Broad, deep offerings raise

program’s national profile

23 LAUNCHING A NEW ORDER

Steven Horn (JD 87) constructs legal framework

for NASA’s private transport system

25 A DAY’S WORK

Nina Lacevic (JD 08) builds American rule of law

27 PARTNERS

• New gift to support Tax LL.M. students

• Donations support student scholarships

• Law school leads aid for domestic-violence survivors

30 CLASS NOTES

• Miami NaviGators introduces students

to Gator Law Nation

• Howard Brill (JD 70) named top state jurist

45 • In Memoriam

49 ANNUAL REPORT

76 FACULTY

• Solutions for the thirsty Everglades

• Global trade-secrets law

• Research report

• Faculty in the news

82 UP & COMING

• JAG education

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• Florida Moot Court Final Four webcast

• Everglades options report co-authored by UF Law Professor Mary Jane Angelo

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• Cuban-American lawyers celebration webcast

• Alumni deaths since April 2015

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FROM THE DEAN

I A M H O N O R E D A N D H U M B L E D

TO B E T H E N E W D E A N of the University of Florida Levin Col-lege of Law. As I complete my fifth month in the dean’s office, I still have much to learn about UF Law. The cover story of this magazine chron-icles some of my listening tour with

faculty, students, alumni and friends of UF. Though my listening tour is not complete, I am confident that the UF Law community will achieve three goals in the months to come. We will make UF Law the best pos-sible place for our students; preserve UF Law’s place as the best law school in the state of Florida; and raise our national and international profiles so that the rest of the world knows about our cutting-edge legal scholar-ship and innovative curricular initiatives. This issue of UF LAW magazine highlights just some of our strengths, with articles about Professor Mary Jane Angelo’s (JD 87) work on water storage in the Everglades, our robust fam-ily law program led by Professor Shani King, Professor Elizabeth Rowe’s new book on global trade secrets and our close relationships with seven justices of the Florida Supreme Court.

Florida is now the third largest state in the U.S. by population. A powerhouse state deserves a powerhouse law school, and UF Law will be that powerhouse. We have already responded to the changes in the market for legal services with a bold strategic plan for experiential learning. Our students will now be spending semes-ters in intensive externships in Miami, Tallahassee and Washington, D.C. We look forward to expanding this semester-away program to the location of every student’s choice.

At the same time, UF Law maintains a robust full-time faculty of scholar-teachers who, both in their research and in the classroom, explore the underpin-nings of law, the ways it interacts with all aspects of so-ciety, and how it may be used to solve the most pressing problems of our times. Our model of the scholar-teach-

er is particularly important because the next generation of lawyers will not just work within existing systems. Instead, the next generation of lawyers will need to adapt to technological and other change.

Students at UF Law must therefore learn how to work within flexible analytic frameworks that don’t require overhaul with every new advancement. The rise of 3D printing technology provides just one exam-ple. How should society respond to 3D printed guns? To 3D printed viruses? UF Law students will lead the way in addressing questions like these because of our rigorous academic training that emphasizes critical thinking, institutional design and flexible problem-solving.

UF Law is also taking advantage of our place within a world-class research institution. As greater numbers of students leave our campus to spend semesters with le-gal employers, students remaining on campus will leave the law school to take courses across the university in fields such as quantitative and statistical analysis, busi-ness, communications, agriculture, health and medicine, education, international studies and engineering. This interdisciplinary focus is vital because the legal market is becoming increasingly fluid. Lawyers no longer sim-ply provide legal services or legal advice to their clients. Instead, the best lawyers collaborate with their clients to find solutions to a wide range of problems. Students must have substantive knowledge about their clients’ or-ganizations and goals in order to do so.

In these ways and many more, UF Law is at the forefront of legal analysis and legal education. I look forward to working with our faculty, students, alumni and friends as we continue to innovate in these exciting times. Please follow our journey on Twitter, @UFLAW, Facebook, LinkedIn and our website. And you can follow my personal Twitter account, @UFLawDean.

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Florida Supreme Court justices judge moot court competitionF O U R F L O R I D A S U P R E M E C O U R T

J U S T I C E S judged the 30th annual Zimmerman Kiser Sutcliffe Final Four Competition at UF Law.

The competition featured the top four competitors from this year’s Florida Moot Court Team tryout competition demonstrating their oral advocacy abilities before Justices Peggy A. Quince, Charles T. Canady, Ricky Polston and James E.C. Perry.

The Florida Moot Court Team will represent UF Law across the country through its active competition schedule for the 2015-2016 school year. To learn more about the Florida Moot Court Team visit www.floridamootcourt.com.

UF Law ranked No. 5 in nation for family lawU F L A W ’ S F A M I L Y L A W

P R O G R A M , which includes the Center on Children and Families, the Family Law Certificate Program and several clinic programs, has been ranked No. 5 in the nation by Law Street Media.

The online legal publication’s ranking takes into account such factors as the classes offered, employment statistics, networking opportunities and extracurricular opportunities. The ranking and complete information can be found at Lawstreetmedia.com.

UF Law ranked No. 1 for networking opportunitiesT H E O N L I N E G R A D U A T E S C H O O L

G U I D E GraduatePrograms.com has named UF Law the top law school in the nation for the quality of its network. The ranking is based on survey responses by current and former law school students.

“UF Law alumni have been integral to helping our students in school and after

graduation by meeting with students in Gainesville, recruiting students for jobs and internships, and mentoring current students and recent graduates,” said

Rob Birrenkott, assistant dean for career development. “The Gator Nation is not just a slogan; our alumni have gone above and beyond to give their time and knowledge, which leads to great opportunities and outcomes for graduates.”

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Four Florida Supreme

Court justices judged the

30th annual moot court

Zimmerman Kiser Sutcliffe

Final Four Competition on

Aug. 27. To see a webcast

of the competition

go to Web Extras,

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UF Law students donate more than 1,000 service hours to communityU F L A W S T U D E N T S clad in blue T-shirts dispersed throughout Gainesville before the start of the fall semester, serving up more than 1,000 hours of community service at 29 nonprofit and local government sites.More than 350 students got their hands dirty as part of the Introduction to the Law School and the Profession Community Service Day.

Dean Laura Rosenbury spent time pulling weeds at the Wilmot Gardens on UF’s campus and ventured to the Lubee Bat Conservancy, where she helped students clean up the grounds and learned about bat conservation.

BEN FERNANDEZ

While most lawyers are either litigators or transactional lawyers, new Legal Skills Professor Ben Fernandez has been both for more than 10 years. This gives him experi-ence in drafting documents and contracts for both sectors of the law.

Fernandez teaches Legal Drafting this year and is excited to get involved with the university and invest in his students.

“I’m focused on the students, so what I want most is for the students to enjoy the course and get the most out of it,” he said.

Before joining the UF Law faculty, Fernandez taught Legal Writing at Florida Coastal School of Law in Jacksonville.

He received his undergraduate degree from Cornell University and his J.D. from Northeastern University. He holds an LL.M. from Boston University in banking and financial law.

JOAN JOHNSEN

As a new legal skills professor, Joan Johnsen hopes to develop interviewing, counseling and negotiation skills in stu-dents before they enter the workforce. She

More than 350 new

students and student

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morning on Thursday, Aug. 13, to

serve 29 sites around Gainesville

and surrounding areas as

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is familiar with the theory and practice after 30 years of practice in litigation, mediation and arbitration.

This year Johnsen teaches Introduction to Lawyering and the negotiation portion of Interviewing, Counseling and Negotiation. She is excited to share her passion with stu-dents and help them develop the skills and tools to discover what they like and prosper in their practice areas.

“I come to this from having worked with practitioners, so being able to talk to law stu-dents and develop these skills will be a lot of fun,” Johnsen said.

Johnsen practiced securities arbitration and commercial mediation early in her career and went on to teach at Albany Law School in New York.

Johnsen received her bachelor’s degree from Northwestern University in French literature and language, and her J.D. from Case Western Reserve in Cleveland.

JINYUAN MA

Visiting Professor Jinyuan Ma’s curios-ity to understand the world and the varying complex legal systems in different countries has brought her to UF Law, where she teach-es Business and Legal Environments in China, a five-week course. She loves law’s ability to sharpen her brain. Her desire to share that passion with students brought her to America from Beijing.

She hopes her class will allow students to study and compare the Chinese legal system through projects and hands-on immersive activities, rather than just traditional readings and papers, and open their minds to a differ-ent region of the world.

Ma received her bachelor’s degree in China, her master’s degree in Germany and her Ph.D. in the Netherlands, studying com-petition law and economics.

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Tax program hosts IRS chief counselU F L A W ’ S T A X P R O G R A M welcomed the chief counsel for the Internal Revenue Service, William Wilkins. He presented the lecture, “How IRS Lawyers Contribute to Sound Tax Enforcement.”

As part of the ongoing Enrichment Speaker Series, Wilkins discussed the role of tax lawyers in the IRS and how they contribute to sound tax administration. He also addressed how lawyers’ three main jobs in the office of chief counsel are creating regulatory infrastructure, handling resolution of tax conflicts and providing legal advice to the commissioner and other IRS executives.UF Law’s tax program is ranked No. 1 among public universities and No. 2 overall by U.S. News & World Report.

MARITZA REYES

Maritza Reyes has a diverse teaching background in immigration law and policy, professional responsibility, evidence, civil procedure, Latinos and the law, and advanced topics in immigration law. As a visiting associate professor of law she teaches Introduction to Lawyering and Professional Responsibility.

Reyes believes that education is a means to improve both society and the lives of indi-viduals. She seeks to give students a sound foundation in the doctrinal content of the courses she teaches and also introduces them to skills that they need in law school and in practice. She challenges students to think analytically, ethically and practically and pro-vokes them to consider different perspectives.

Reyes is an engaged academic and public citizen. She has published law review articles in the Harvard Latino Law Review, the Berke-ley Journal of Gender, Law & Justice, the Akron Law Review and the Temple Law Re-view. She has also published her opinions on some of the issues of our time in other media forums, such as traditional newspapers, legal blogs and online publications. She is active in her community and was recognized in the U.S. Congressional Record for her contribu-tions to the Central Florida community. She was also selected as the winner of the La

Prensa’s Mujeres Destacadas (Women of Ac-complishment) award in the area of educa-tion in 2015.

Reyes earned her LL.M. from Harvard Law School, her J.D. summa cum laude from Nova Southeastern University Shepard College of Law, and her bachelor of science in accounting magna cum laude from Florida Atlantic University. She is a tenured associate professor at Florida A&M University College of Law.

ADAM J. SMITH

With both a J.D. (12) LL.M. (13) in tax from UF Law, Adam J. Smith has developed a deep understanding of tax law that he now hopes to impart on law students as the new tax visiting assistant professor. He will teach Individual Income Tax and Tax Research.

“I want students to get the appreciation, if not the desire, to explore tax law more and expose them to how tax comes into play in various contexts,” Smith said.

Smith points out that tax affects many areas of law and believes an understanding of the field is critical to success as a practitio-ner. As a former student of these same tax classes, Smith has taken into account what he felt worked and didn’t work when he took tax classes. Smith hopes to use a practical approach in the classroom, placing tax prob-

lems in context through personal and profes-sional experiences so students can see why they matter.

Smith’s experience comes from two years with the IRS Office of Chief Counseling in Jacksonville where he litigated tax cases. In addition to his UF Law degrees, Smith received undergraduate and master’s degrees from University of Illinois.

He is excited to work with the professors he has looked up to and to become part of the UF Law community again.

“That was something I really enjoyed while I was here and it drew me back,” Smith said.

Bar president, president-elect advise UF Law students F L O R I D A B A R P R E S I D E N T Ramón Abadin, President-Elect William Schifino Jr. (JD 85) and Young Lawyers Division President Gordon Glover visited UF Law on Sept. 3 for a town hall meeting. The Florida Bar leaders discussed issues relevant to young lawyers, while also fielding questions from students.

When Schifino takes over as bar president in 2016, he will become the sixth UF Law graduate to lead the bar since 2009, joining Eugene Pettis (JD 85), Scott Hawkins (JD 83), Gwynne Alice Young (JD 74), Mayanne Downs (JD 87) and John G. White III (JD 83).

Trial Team Places No. 2 O U T O F 1 6 T R I A L T E A M S , the UF Law Trial Team placed second at the Lone Star Classic National Trial Tournament. The tournament, judged by local Maryland judges and attorneys, hosted students from around the country for the annual invitational mock murder-

trial competition. Participating teams were selected based on the

strength of their law programs and their school’s success at previous regional and national

competitions. This year’s case was that of

a wife charged with murder after her husband was found dead because of a shot in the back. Nicholas Gurney (3L) was named best oralist of the competition.

Faculty promotionsLea Johnston has been granted tenure and approved for promotion to full professor.

John Stinneford has been granted tenure and approved for promotion to full professor.

Leslie Knight has been promoted to master lecturer.

Shalini Ray has been promoted to senior lecturer.

Stacey Steinberg has been promoted to senior lecturer.

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Dean Rosenbury’s objective: Building a UF Law powerhouse

Building FROM THE GROUND

UPS O O N A F T E R S TA R T I N G H E R J O B ,

the new dean of UF Law admitted she had yet to master one of her key responsibilities. At the end of speeches to alumni and students, it’s traditional for University of Florida adminis-trators to issue the battle cry, “Go Gators!”

“It’s new to me, but I’m working on it,” said Laura A. Rosenbury, appointed July 1 as dean and as Levin, Mabie and Levin Profes-sor of Law.

In other respects, the legal scholar from Washington University appears to have found her voice just fine.

Rosenbury is trying to catapult UF Law forward. Florida is the third largest state in the nation, she noted. As such, it should have one of the nation’s top law schools.

“I’m an agent of change, but I want change to be collaborative, transparent and deliberate. That said, deliberate doesn’t have to mean slow,” Rosenbury said.

Since arriving on campus, Rosenbury has been anything but slow. To learn more about UF Law, she scheduled one-on-one interviews with the law school’s 74 full-time faculty members. She has now met with them all.

“The meetings have been incredibly helpful to me in terms of getting to know the motivations of individual faculty mem-bers – why they’re here, why they stay, what makes them tick,” Rosenbury said. “Even more so, however, I appreciate hear-ing a wide range of perspectives about the

strengths and weaknesses of the college from people who are here day in and day out so they really know what’s happening on the ground.”

Rosenbury also has begun an active listening tour with key alumni and friends; developed scores of organizational and da-ta-collection initiatives; and evaluated law school admissions processes, ultimately elevating social media and blog commu-nications in a bid to enlarge the applicant pool.

She hasn’t stopped there. Saying she is eager for even greater strides in UF Law’s rapidly improving job-placement statistics, Rosenbury is pairing class of 2015 gradu-ates yet to find jobs with faculty to keep them

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on task. Rosenbury herself will take on 15 students who have been reluctant to commu-nicate with the career services office.

And that’s just in her first five months. Rosenbury describes three objectives

for UF Law: Get students jobs; raise the law school’s national and international profile; and generate revenue to support J.D. pro-grams and faculty scholarship.

“Every initiative we undertake should be aligned with at least one of those goals, and to the extent we have programs or ac-tivities that are not aligned with those goals we need to evaluate how to better use our resources,” Rosenbury said.

Rosenbury’s appointment by UF Presi-dent Kent Fuchs and Provost Joe Glover follows the one-year stint by Interim Dean George Dawson and the 11-year tenure of Dean Robert Jerry. Rosenbury is the first woman to be ap-pointed dean in UF Law’s 106-year history, although she is quick to emphasize that Library Director Betty Taylor (JD 61) served as acting dean in 1981.

Amy Mashburn (JD 87) is a veteran UF Law professor whom Rosenbury appointed associate dean for academic affairs. Mash-burn said change is to be expected from a leader coming from outside the university.

“People know that change is in the air, and I feel they welcome it,” Mashburn said. “She has a very wide exposure to a lot of law schools. It’s a real bonus for the school.”

Rosenbury plans to better pro-mote and support faculty scholarship; ensure that the curriculum is responsive to the changing market for legal services; develop systems to place all graduates in fulfilling legal positions; and create new funding sources, such as a proposed certificate in law and tech-nology with Florida Institute of Technology.

With continued state support, the rev-enue boost is meant to maintain UF Law’s excellence, helping the college recruit the most qualified students possible by offering competitive financial aid packages. At the same time, tuition at UF Law is lower than all but a handful of top-tier law schools, making UF Law one of the nation’s best val-ues in legal education.

“Law schools are going to have to adapt and change,” Rosenbury said. “And I’m ex-cited to explore the different ways we can better prepare our students for a changing legal market.”

Still, focused priorities and energetic administration will go only so far. It helps to have good timing.

Rosenbury, 45, begins her deanship months after a new leader ascended to the university presidency. She told an audi-ence of UF Law faculty and staff during the second week of the fall semester that top administrators like Glover and Fuchs are committed to the project of raising the sta-tus of UF Law.

“As President Fuchs has said to me and others, ‘A great university needs a great law school,’” Rosenbury said. “I believe the col-lege of law has the potential to be one of the drivers. Not just along for the ride but in the front seat leading the university to national prominence.”

Fuchs is, literally, the law school’s neigh-bor. He and his wife, Linda, moved into the new president’s house on the western edge

of the university built with a $3.5 million lead gift from John (JD 73) and Mary Lou (JD 80) Dasburg.

“I have great confidence in Dean Rosen-bury and the direction in which she’s taking the law school,” Fuchs said. “Her initiatives lift UF Law’s national and international stature, and that moves the entire university forward.”

***Before she ever considered running a law

school, Rosenbury built an international repu-tation as a family law scholar and feminist legal theorist at Washington University School of Law. She started in the fall of 2002 after work-ing as an associate in the litigation department of New York City’s Davis Polk & Wardwell. In 2006, one of her papers was selected for the

Stanford-Yale Junior Fac-ulty Forum as the best paper in family law written by an untenured faculty mem-ber over the last two years. She would later sign on as one of the author/editors of the prestigious Feminist Jurisprudence: Cases and Materials.

Professor Susan Apple-ton was on the Washington University School of Law committee that hired Rosenbury and chaired the committee that later recommend-ed her for tenure.

“First of all, she does very creative and original work. A great strength lies in her abili-ties to identify and explore silences in law and in legal scholarship,” Appleton said.

Rosenbury asks why the law largely ig-nores friendship (“Friends with Benefits?” Michigan Law Review, 2007), why it ignores workplace relationships that play an integral role in people’s lives (“Work Wives,” Harvard Journal of Law and Gender, 2013) and why it addresses children almost exclusively in the context of family and school (“Between Home and School,” University of Pennsylvania Law Review, 2007).

She critiques the legal, cultural and insti-tutional norms – as expressed in law – that elevate the marriage relationship above other relationships.

Academic interest in marriage has risen as the Supreme Court took up the issue of marriage equality, finally ruling in June that same-sex couples have a right to marry. This issue has placed Rosenbury in demand as a theorist on relationships – marriage and otherwise.

“Her initiatives lift UF Law’s national and international stature, and

that moves the entire university forward.”

—UF PRESIDENT KENT FUCHS

Mashburn Fuchs Hawkins Appleton

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“Now that the same-sex marriage cam-paign has been successful and that debate is largely over, we should begin to start thinking about different ways the state might support families and intimate life outside of marriage,” Rosenbury said. “I hope it’s just the beginning of a conversa-tion about how the state can better support families and other intimate relationships throughout people’s lives.”

As her scholarly renown grew, she began taking on committee assignments common among tenured faculty. Then something unexpected happened. In 2010 Kent Syverud, who was dean of the Wash-ington University School of Law at the time, asked Rosenbury to help promote Washington University’s faculty scholar-ship as vice dean. Within a year she was also sitting in on budget meetings and overhauling the course scheduling system.

Syverud also urged Rosenbury to be-come more actively involved with the Association of American Law Schools. She went on accreditation visits to North-eastern, the University of Maryland and

University of San Diego. Later she was appointed to the AALS Membership Re-view Committee, evaluating law schools nationwide. It was a crash course on how different law schools solved problems. What worked and what didn’t.

“I realized I was developing an interest in law schools as institutions,” Rosenbury said.

She learned how law schools can shape success for students and faculty and how they can best interact with the community, the legal profession and alumni.

Syverud, now chancellor and president of Syracuse University, said that he recog-nized Rosenbury’s latent administrative talent because she attacks tasks large and small with a single-mindedness until they are completed.

“She had a very rare combination of humility and ambition that suggested to me she’d be a great dean,” Syverud said. “The humility is that she knows what she knows and what she doesn’t know. I thought that combination of knowing her-self well and having ambition for others

would make her the perfect administrator, and she was.”

***Sharon Rush, associate dean for facul-

ty development, is marshalling the current year’s UF Law faculty output. She’s still compiling the numbers, but announced the results so far during the first fall fac-ulty meeting.

“We’ve published over 10 books already, over 30 articles and over 20 mis-cellaneous pieces such as chapters in books, supplements to books, encyclo-pedia entries, op-eds and so forth,” Rush said. “We’re publishing at a very high level; we’re publishing on cutting edge issues. What we’re trying to do is get our scholarly insights out to the world.”

UF Law was ranked 47th overall and 24th among public law schools in the most recent U.S. News & World Report. But Rosenbury noted in the same faculty meeting that UF Law’s reputation among peers, law firms and judges is higher, clocking in at the mid-30s among all law schools. Rosenbury wants to build on that

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during the volunteer

service day before the

fall semester begins.

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strong reputation for quality to raise the law school’s national profile.

“I think our current national ranking undervalues the strength of our faculty and the quality of our students and I therefore intend to engage in a strategy to raise our national ranking,” Rosenbury said.

Among UF Law’s strongest programs are tax law, ranked No. 2 among all law schools, environmental and land use law, No. 7 among public universities, and alter-native dispute resolution, in recent years ranked in the top 20 nationally. The family law program was recently ranked No. 5 na-tionally by Law Street Media.

Rosenbury offers a practical blueprint for airing UF Law scholarship before a wider au-dience. “Ideally, each piece of legal scholarship should have three incar-nations: as a law review article, a white paper or amicus brief and an op-ed.”

***Rosenbury grew up

in rural northern Indiana as the oldest of four sib-lings. Rosenbury spent time at her grandparents’ corn and soybean farm nearby, and her parents kept Holstein dairy cows in her uncle’s barn. She used to draw their markings on the outline of a cow so they could be mailed off for registration.

She also developed a love of gardening, first in her grandmother’s “massive” veg-etable garden and later in gardens planted by her parents.

“I was in my grandmother’s garden ev-ery week or almost every week during the growing season weeding, planting, picking, harvesting,” she said. “We later had our own gardens that I now realize were much larger than the average garden, but they seemed small in comparison to Grandma Mabel’s.”

In 1983, young Laura Rosenbury be-

came the St. Joeseph County 4H garden champion. Her harvest for the competition included red potatoes, green beans and yel-low crookneck squash.

Through her junior year in high school she had prided herself on writing, and knew more than most about nurturing liv-ing things. Yet her upbringing consisted of northern Indiana farm culture with a father who was the first in his family to go to col-lege and a mother who never finished her degree. Unlikely roots for a legal scholar with two Harvard degrees.

That path began when her father moved the family to Westchester County, New York, for his job with a fertilizer company. Her senior year in Rye, New York, was more rigorous than the Indiana school she left be-

hind. A counselor in Rye suggested that she apply for college in places she never would have considered.

“First, I was surprised that the counsel-or thought I should apply to them. Second of all, I was surprised that I got into them,” Rosenbury said.

She enrolled at Harvard the next year where she said she had to work harder than most of her peers. She needed to fill in blanks in her reading of seminal politi-cal, philosophical and historical works with which many of her fellow Harvard under-graduates were already familiar.

Rosenbury was attracted to the interdis-ciplinary approach of women’s studies, but she also began taking part in the communi-ty and life of the university. It was as a peer contraceptive counselor that Rosenbury met Michele Jaffe, now a New York-based novel-ist of adult romances and young-adult fiction.

Among their responsibilities, said Jaffe, were “leading meetings, listening to people and finding paths through bizarre questions. She was just incredibly good at it, even in college. She and I were co-heads, but Laura

is a fantastically better leader than I am so she did most of the work.” (Rosenbury dis-putes this last claim.)

***In the face of declining applications

to law schools nationwide, Rosenbury ad-vocates a two-fold strategy to raise UF Law’s status in the marketplace for legal education. She backs and seeks to expand a semester-away program for students, a plan developed under her predecessors and set to go into effect in the spring. Students will work for credit to gain a firmer grounding in legal practice.

Rosenbury also wants to integrate in-terdisciplinary studies more seamlessly into the UF Law curriculum, stressing the need for lawyers to understand their clients’

businesses and goals.This means law students will take courses in other UF colleges.

As a land-grant uni-versity, UF harbors a vast array of expertise. Grad-uate degrees are granted in everything from ag-ricultural engineering to finance to genomics to computer engineer-

ing. Since the law school is part of the main campus, students can easily access it. One third-year student is on pace to graduate with a joint degree in medicine and law. But Rosenbury wants every J.D. student to ac-cess courses in other disciplines.

“Students can get grounded in subjects outside of law even if they are only at UF for the traditional three years of the J.D. program,” Rosenbury said. “So that means finding ways that more students can take classes at the business, education or engi-neering schools or in other departments campus-wide.”

Rosenbury recognizes that metrics in a certain national news magazine will quantify success as her tenure ripens. And qualities measured by U.S. News – like get-ting more jobs for students and raising admissions standards – are at the top of her to-do list. But just as important, she said, is raising the intellectual vibrancy of the school as well as bringing more alumni to campus to contribute. “I’m actually much more interested in change that’s harder to measure.”

“I think our current national ranking undervalues the strength of our faculty

and the quality of our students, and I therefore intend to engage in a strategy

to raise our national ranking.”—DEAN LAURA A. ROSENBURY

Syverud Rush

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***Harvard Professor Elizabeth War-

ren glared at second-year student, Laura Rosenbury. Then a Harvard law professor, now U.S. senator from Mas-sachusetts, Warren took exception to Rosenbury’s response in a secured trans-actions class. Warren had just asked her a series of hypothetical questions with changes in the mathematical calcula-tions, and Rosenbury was struggling to answer them in front of the class of 120 students.

“I’m sorry,” Rosenbury said. “I’m not very good at math.”

Rosenbury recalled that interchange during a speech at the orientation ban-quet for incoming first-year students in the J. Wayne Reitz Union on the UF campus.

“With those words, I both apologized when it was unnecessary, and I fed into a gender stereotype. Major no-nos when Elizabeth Warren is your decision-mak-er,” Rosenbury said.

Over the next weeks, Rosenbury and other and other members of her study group derived the mathematical pattern that Warren was using to alter the ques-tions. Soon she answered each question Warren asked over the course of a 20-min-ute grilling. Warren said: “Excellent job, Ms. Rosenbury. Your service is complete.” The class cheered.

Rosenbury said Warren later ex-plained her initial pique. “‘Laura, you don’t want to be a lawyer who just sits in her office writing memos. You want a seat at the table, developing strategy for your clients. And to do that, you can’t apolo-gize whenever something gets tough. You have to project confidence and power through.’”

Rosenbury told the UF Law class of 2018 that she wants the same for them.

“For now, though, I will leave you with two words,” she said.

In the text of her banquet speech, the words were in all caps.

“GO GATORS.”

Rosenbury speaks to

UF Law Professor Joe

Jackson (JD 82) during a

faculty reception.

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UF Law Dean Laura Rosenbury hula hoops in the courtyard, watches trial team practice and takes selfies with

students. She meets with faculty and snaps photos of them eating barbecue. It’s all in a day’s work when the

dean takes over UF’s Snapchat for a day.

See the recap at: www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxi0eJ08Aqk&app=desktop

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T H E R E WA S M U C H P R A I S E of the United States and the University of Florida during the Cuban-American Lawyers 40th anniversary celebration at UF Law: The U.S. for the freedom it conferred on law-yers and their families escaping the regime of Communist dictator Fidel Castro and the university for its embrace of Cuban lawyers who had gained freedom but lost the profession they loved.

“For The Love of Law: Celebrating the 40th Anniversary of the Cuban-Ameri-can Lawyers Program,” sponsored by the Stephen N. Zack Endowment, brought graduates, families, students and other members of the UF Law community to the campus Oct. 16.

Zack (JD 71) was the first Hispanic president of The Florida Bar and the American Bar Association. He and his

family fled Cuba as Castro tightened his grip on power. Zack said that when he ar-rived in Miami with his family in 1961 it was a sleepy southern city with an edge of prejudice.

It has grown into a sophisticated, cosmopolitan center of Latin American commerce and culture in no small part, Zack said, thanks to UF Law’s Cuban-American Lawyers Program.

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“The program was ... like a pebble that you drop into a pond and

then out come the ripples.”—OSCAR SANCHEZ (JD 82)

“You can trace generation to generation how Miami became the international city it is today from this program,” Zack said. “I came over in ’61 from Cuba. When I came over we saw lots of friends of ours, who were lawyers especially, doing gardening, being a waiter, doing anything they could to support their family. And they would be doing the same thing today or something similar if it wasn’t for this program.”

Oscar Sanchez (JD 82), president of the UF Law’s board of trustees and a Cuban-American, noted that the named partner of the first firm he worked for was a graduate of the program. His son attended Harvard Law School and became mayor of Coral Gables. Another son is a dentist and another is a banker.

“It allowed these political refugees to come here and practice their loved profession, the practice of law … and to provide for their families and to provide the seed for those who came after them like me and like Steve (Zack) and like Justice (Jorge)

Labarga.” Sanchez said. “The program was sort of like a pebble that you drop into a pond and then out come the ripples.”

One of those pebbles was Jose “Pepe” Villalobos. Immediately after graduating from law school in Cuba, Villalobos was ordered to swear

allegiance to Cuba’s new fundamental law as promulgated by the Castro regime. He refused, suffered a beating from militia and fled the country. By the 1970s Villalobos was working as a roofer in South Florida when the program came along. He said it drove home the foundation of U.S. law.

“We immersed ourselves in the true understanding of Jefferson and Madison, the true meaning of being an American,” Villalobos said.

Villalobos was one of 314 foreign-trained lawyers and judges, most but

not all Cuban, who graduated from the program made possible by an order of the Florida Supreme Court. After the Supreme Court order, UF Law quickly developed a course of study to teach foreign lawyers the common law and give them a chance to enter the Florida Bar. Dean Joseph R. Julin

assigned 13 professors to the program, made Julian C. Juergensmeyer the program director and began offering weekend classes.

Emeritus Professor Fletcher Baldwin, who continues to teach at UF

Law, was one of the professors who took up the challenge. Forty years later, Bald-win said it was worth the effort.

“They had a lot to give Miami, they had a lot to give the state of Florida and the United States. I was grateful and am grateful with the teaching experience that I had with these gentlemen,’’ Baldwin said.

Osvaldo Miranda, who left Cuba this year to pursue an LL.M. at Duke School of Law, was a commercial law-yer in Cuba where he defended the rights of international corporations.

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Before that he served as an appellate judge right out of the University of Havana Law School.

Miranda tied together the past and the future, describing the pres-sure in the Cuban justice system to conform to the political line of the party and president rather than written law, whether statutory or constitutional.

UF President Kent Fuchs wants the university to expand its inter-national footprint and the Cuban lawyers program was a pioneer.

“As this program was a brilliant program in the past – it is a model for the future,” Fuchs said.

UF Law Dean Laura Rosenbury noted the growing connections between Cuba and UF Law since diplomatic relations have opened between Cuba and the U.S. She talk-ed of drawing Cuban lawyers to UF Law where they could enroll in the comparative law LL.M.

In September, University of Ha-vana Law Professors Teresa Delgado Vergara and Marta Moreno Cruz spent a week talking to students, meeting with faculty and exchanging ideas with the UF Law community. In November,

UF Law Professors Berta Hernández-Truyol, Jon Mills and Lyrissa Lidsky traveled to the University of Havana to return the favor.

Harley Herman (JD 77) noticed the signs around campus while he was a student but never knew what they meant: CUBAN LAWYER PROGRAM SATURDAY ROOM 103. When he began investigating its meaning a few years ago Herman found numerous Cuban lawyers and their families who told him how the program changed their lives. He be-came determined to encourage 40th

anniversary celebrations of the pro-gram that have since been held in Tampa, Miami and now Gainesville.

“What’s happened here is a reflec-tion of the stories that I heard when I met people,” Herman said as he intro-duced program participants.

A UF Law committee organized the event, which was co-chaired by Hernández-Truyol, Levin, Mabie and Levin Professor of Law, and by Senior Director of Communications Debra Amirin.

A permanent display honoring the program was funded through the Stephen N. Zack Law Endowment.

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UF Law alum, a past ABA president, returns for embassy ceremony

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40S T E P H E N N . Z A C K ( J D 7 1 ) looked on with high emotions as three elderly vet-erans presented an American flag to the Marine sergeant, who in turn raised the banner over the U.S. Embassy in Cuba for the first time since 1961. The three veter-ans were the same men who lowered the flag 54 years ago when the U.S. severed re-lations with its island neighbor. They had vowed to see it raised again one day.

“There wasn’t a dry eye in the house,” said Zack, who fled Cuba’s Communist Fidel Castro regime with his family at 13 – the same year the U.S. embassy was shuttered.

In the intervening years, Zack has earned degrees from the University of Florida and UF Law; forged a successful career in international law and complex commercial litigation as a partner with Boies, Schiller & Flexner LLP in Miami;

became the first Hispanic-American pres-ident of the American Bar Association and The Florida Bar; and served as the chair of the ABA’s House of Delegates. He was also appointed by President Barack Obama as the alternate U.S. representa-tive to the United Nations 68th General Assembly and Senior Advisor to the U.S. State Department.

He was in Havana as a guest of U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry for the flag raising ceremony on Aug. 14. Zack said he had dreamed of one day returning to Cuba, perhaps under different circumstances, but the recent opening of relations is the be-ginning of a long process.

“We still believe that Cubans are entitled to self-determination, politically. We still be-lieve in human rights and religious freedom,” Zack said. “What it is, is an opportunity for

us to talk. And we’re neighbors and we have a lot of things to talk about.”

Zack said other highlights of the trip included watching Kerry and his convoy leaving the ceremony in three very old American cars, a contrast from the sleek convoys one sees in the U.S. Zack even vis-ited his former home, which is now a bank.

“The communication I had on the street with Cubans was wonderful and warm. There’s a lot of hope that has been expressed. No one knows what’s going to happen from here on,” Zack said. “This is now going to require each partner to take certain steps and we’ll have to see how those evolve.”

Zack pointed to the 19th century intel-lectual and hero of Cuban independence, José Martí, who said: “Everything that di-vides men, everything that specified, sepa-rates or pens them, is a sin against humanity.”

Stephen N. Zack (JD 71),

past president of the

American Bar Association,

stands in August before the

U.S. Embassy in Havana.

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Broad, deep offerings raise program’s national profile

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U F L AW D E A N Laura A. Rosen-bury used to think her previous institution, Washington University School of Law, had a robust family law program. Until she got to Gainesville.

“I was wrong,” she said. “I came here and realized that at University of Florida we’re doing a much better job at providing a comprehensive expo-sure to family law issues.”

That exposure comes in many forms and has even gar-nered national recognition as the No. 5 ranked family law program in the country, ac-cording to the website Law Street Media, founded by award-winning journalist John A. Jenkins. The ranking took into account such factors as the class-es offered, employment statistics, networking opportunities and extra-curricular opportunities.

“Given the diversity of our cur-riculum and the opportunities for our students, I’m not surprised that we’re number five,” Rosenbury said. “I think we should actually be ranked higher.”

Rosenbury, herself a nationally renowned family law scholar, said most law schools offer students one clinic experience related to family law, but UF Law offers three: the Family

Advocacy Clinic, Gator TeamChild Juvenile Clinic and the Intimate Part-ner Violence Assistance Clinic.

She also notes the diversity and depth of other classroom offerings.

“Unlike most schools, we have a really deep curriculum in family law. Many schools offer a family law class and that’s it,” Rosenbury said. “We of-fer the family law class, but then we also offer advanced courses in fam-ily law policy and the economics of family law, including issues related to the planning, investigation, and litiga-tion of marital property division. We also offer several specialized courses

in the law affecting children, includ-ing a child, parent and the state class, a juvenile justice class, a child support class and an adoption class.”

The breadth and depth of UF Law’s family law program is no accident. When speaking with UF Law’s Cen-ter on Children and Families’ new

director, Professor Shani King, the phrase, “Family law, broadly

defined,” comes up more than once. The Center on Children and Families drives the fam-ily law program – assisting in establishing the curriculum, administering the family law certificate program and

working closely with the three clinics.

King points out several key initiatives that the center is currently involved with, including developing a smartphone app for juveniles in underserved communities, bring-ing prestigious national family law scholars like University of Penn-sylvania Law Professor Dorothy Roberts to UF Law in the spring and helping to draft legislation that af-fects children and families.

“One of the initiatives that I’m hoping to get the center involved with is working with clinicians, policy makers and lawyers around

“I came here and realized that we’re

doing a much better job at providing

a comprehensive exposure to family

law issues.”

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the state on legislation to end the solitary confinement of juveniles in Florida,” he said.

Both King and Rosenbury look at family law outside the tradition-ally accepted boundaries of divorce and child custody.

“We have all emphasized as-pects of family law that go beyond spouses and their children,” Rosen-bury said.

Rosenbury’s scholarship has explored the idea of extending fam-ily law principles into the realm of friendship, asking why friends can’t share legal benefits granted to married couples or other familial relationships. Rosenbury praises her UF colleagues for similarly “bring-ing attention to family law issues that affect children and parents liv-ing outside of marriage.”

Rosenbury emphasizes that this broad focus will be increasingly im-portant to family law policy because, “in 2010, 40 percent of children were born to parents who will never be married to one another.” If family law is confined to marriage, she said, “a huge portion of the population is be-ing left out of the conversation.”

King said Rosenbury’s scholarly interests will add momentum to UF Law’s family law programs.

“I think having a dean who also conceptualizes family law broadly, as law that affects children and fam-ilies, rather than just law governing marriage and divorce, is going to help us create synergies with other scholars and policy makers who are working in substantive areas that they might not necessarily think of as family law but operate in ways that are consequential to children and families,” King said.

The Intimate Partner Violence Assistance Clinic is already creating synergies outside the law school. The clinic “provides legal, mental health and victim advocacy servic-es to indigent survivors of intimate partner violence,” said Director Te-resa Drake. “It’s the first and only one of its kind in the nation – a collaboration between the College of Law, College of Medicine, UF Health, Peaceful Paths, and the Ala-chua County Sheriff ’s Office.”

Drake said students learn and practice legal skills in a variety of settings, all the while helping actual clients. They also learn to work with professionals such as physician and clinical social workers in a multidis-ciplinary setting. IPVAC is currently seeking funding because its federal grant expires in December from the

Department of Justice, Office of Vi-olence Against Women.

Alumni know the value of the curriculum and its experienced faculty. Whitney Untiedt (JD 05), partner and director of pro bono initiatives in Akerman LLP’s Miami office, visits the law school regularly to give students advice on becoming lawyers.

She said the clinics and fellow-ships helped her determine what she wanted to do after gradua-tion and gave her the confidence, through hands-on experience, that she could do it well. Learning how to file motions and write legal doc-uments forced her to develop the skills she needed in the field, while she still had the support of her pro-fessors.

Untiedt singled out Profes-sor Nancy Dowd, who just stepped down as director of the Center on Children and Families, and Profes-sor Jeff Grater (JD 85), director of the Family Advocacy Clinic.

“I wouldn’t have started my career as strongly without my expe-rience at UF Law,” she said. “They let me do all the work but I knew they wouldn’t let me mess it up.”—Chantelle McHugh contributed to this story

THE GATOR TEAM CHILD

JUVENILE LAW CLINIC

As certified legal interns, students advocate on behalf of children in delinquency, depen-dency, administrative and edu-cational matters. Students learn practical, transferable and fun-damental advocacy skills such as interviewing, counseling and negotiation. They are trained to operate effectively in a law office and to navigate bureaucracies, agencies and court systems on behalf of their clients.

THE INTIMATE PARTNER

VIOLENCE ASSISTANCE

CLINIC

A multidisciplinary clinic that provides indigent victims of domestic, dating and sexual violence with legal representa-tion, mental health counseling and case management needs. Students interview and coun-sel clients, draft pleadings and conduct discovery. They also engage in motion practice and conduct trials on behalf of clients.

THE FAMILY ADVOCACY

CLINIC

Under the supervision of a faculty member, students rep-resent indigent clients as lead counsel including interviewing and counseling. Students draft pleadings, motions, orders, judgments and other legal documents. They also conduct discovery, argue motions, negotiate and advocate at me-diation and sometimes take cases to trial.

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Alum constructs legal framework for NASA’s private transport system

BY T H E 19 3 0 s , commercial aviation for mail, cargo and passenger transport was growing into a viable industry. To-day, NASA is working to do the same with space travel, turning to private companies that own, operate and run space vessels in hopes of spurring a commercial transpor-tation market in space.

Steven Horn’s (JD 87) job is to build the legal underpinnings of this nascent industry. Horn, Kennedy Space Center’s assistant chief counsel, structured con-tracts awarded to private companies under NASA’s Commercial Crew Program.

The Commercial Crew Transporta-tion Capability contract awards came after a two-year competitive procurement process, including information gather-ing with industry; development of the acquisition process and contract struc-

ture; evaluation of proposals; and, finally, selection.

“This procurement was very complex, given multiple moving collateral parts to include parallel space act agreements and a phased acquisition,” Horn said in a story on NASA’s website.

The unsuccessful offeror immediately challenged the contract awards in court. That’s when Horn’s work really acceler-ated.

Horn said he worked three months of seven-day work weeks, including one month of 17-hour days to defend con-tracts awarded to SpaceX and Boeing.

“I hardly saw my wife throughout the initial stages of the litigation except to say good morning, occasionally good night and every once in a while share a very late dinner. Essentially, life was entirely put

on hold as all energy was directed toward the litigation.  Looking back it seems like a very difficult proposition, but at the time, it wasn’t.  You have a lot of people counting on you and you don’t want to disappoint these very same people who had worked tirelessly the past two years putting together the ac-quisition and supporting the litigation.”

UF Law Professor Mark Fenster, an expert in federal administrative law, said lawyers in Horn’s position have to ac-count for statutes and how they relate to business goals.

“Government contracts require strict at-tention to statutes and regulations that apply directly to the transaction’s subject matter, as well as to all government contracts,” Fenster said. “Attorneys must also pay close attention to the terms and ultimate outcomes that the parties hope to gain.”

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Launching anew order

Horn’s attention to such detail allowed the team to defend the contracts successfully.

Horn said that part of the acquisition difficulty was putting the proposals in plain language in anticipation of litigation since judges may not understand the technical jargon.

If judges did not understand the findings or technicalities of the process, they may have disagreed with the reasonable-ness of NASA’s evaluation of the proposals or questioned which companies represented the best value to the government. If judges ruled that aspects of the competi-tive process needed to change or that the process had to start over, the privatization process could have been delayed for years, which would have been a major setback to the space mission.

Horn’s success in court averted this out-come. The rockets and spacecraft NASA will use for crew missions to the International Space Station in 2017 are now owned and operated by these private companies. The contractors must still build launch systems that meet NASA requirements, but the ar-rangement allows NASA to have insight into the companies’ development process while giving the companies access to NASA’s re-sources and technical experience.

There are six people currently on the space station now, with crew rotations con-

sisting of three per visiting vehicle. With the Commercial Crew Program, NASA in-tends to send four people per crew rotation mission. Russia is currently the only coun-try with the ability to launch people to and

from the space station. A successful launch of privately operated spacecraft contracted by NASA would eliminate the United States’ sole reliance on the Russians since SpaceX and Boeing are both American corporations.

NASA is already the first space agency to reach other planets with unmanned probes. The new private-public partnership frees the agency to concentrate on its next mission: the Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft that eventually will be used to send people to Mars, said Bradley Smith, Kennedy Space Center’s assistant chief counsel.

As a counsel for NASA, Horn does more than just contracts. While he focuses mainly on procurements and acquisitions, he also re-views documents to make sure they are legally sufficient, strategizes with negotiation teams,

evaluates how to better utilize taxpayer money, mentors junior counselors and is involved in the planning processes of the agency.

“I assist clients in finding solutions to get what they need to further the mission at the Space Center and help them navigate the law to get results in the end,” Horn said.

The hardest part of the job, Horn said, is that sometimes no matter how hard he tries, there isn’t a good solution. “Telling your cli-ent that can be difficult, so it’s my job to make sure that doesn’t happen often.”

For his troubles, Horn was named NA-SA’s 2015 Attorney of the Year. Horn is one of 13 NASA attorneys working on this mission from Florida’s Space Coast. He calls his fellow attorneys, the engineers and the rest of NA-SA’s staff the most rewarding parts of his job.

“I work with the smartest people on the planet,” Horn said. “They challenge and mo-tivate me. It’s refreshing being around such dedicated people who really enjoy what they’re doing.”

Horn started his legal career in private practice on the Treasure Coast, an area that was said to be up and coming, and a good location to build a practice. After some time he decided to join the Air Force for the op-

portunity to travel. While in the Air Force he served as a judge advocate general, both as a pros-ecutor and defense counsel. He became a claims officer where he defended the Air Force against tort claims and later specialized in contract law.

After leaving the Air Force, he moved to Oklahoma and practiced federal sector labor law

for several years. Horn applied to work with the Kennedy Space Center after realizing that his experience in procurement and labor law aligned with what the space agency needed. The Gator Nation also aligned.

“It’s funny, the deputy handling applica-tions (for The Kennedy Space Center) was a UF Law alumnus, and alumni stick together always,” Horn said.

It took Horn 10 years after law school to figure out what he wanted to do and find his home at NASA, but he doesn’t consider that to have been an obstacle. Today his patience and hard work will help the space industry evolve.

“I don’t view anything as an obstacle,” Horn said. “Obstacles have always been op-portunities. Any problem in front of you that you figure out is now an opportunity.”

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“I work with the smartest people on the planet. It’s refreshing being around such dedicated people who

really enjoy what they’re doing.”—STEVEN HORN (JD 87)

Steven Horn (JD 87), assistant chief counsel for NASA, at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida. (Photo provided by NASA)

I N T H E M O R N I N G , Nina Lacevic (JD 08) may explain to federal regulators how Tampa-based financial services company, Amscot, complies with government regulations. At lunch she might meet with the FBI on a pending money-laundering case. In the afternoon, the topic might be risks of implementing a new service with company executives. In the evening, she could review marketing materials for compliance and strategize on new compliance initiatives.

It’s a typical day’s work for the Amscot general counsel, a busy Gator lawyer. What is not apparent from her typical workday is that this Bosnian woman, who learned English

from Nancy Drew novels, came by her legal career in a most extraordinary way.

In 1992, second-grader Nina Lacevic’s hometown of Sarajevo was under siege in what is known to history as the Bosnian war.

Sarajevo is nestled in a valley in Bosnia and Herzegovina, making it an easy target for ethnic Serb forces entrenched around the perimeter. Like the rest of the city, the Lacevic family – father, mother, Nina and sister – suffered under a steady rain of mortar shells falling from the sky.

The once-beautiful Bosnian architecture and historical sites were being systematically destroyed by bombings and grenades. Often without water and electricity, people hid out

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Lacevic survived European ethnic carnage to build American rule of law

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Nina Lacevic (JD 08)

Civilians dodge sniper-fire in Sarajevo during the Bosnian War of the early 1990s. (Photo by The Associated Press)

in cellars. Ethnic cleansing was ongoing in the countryside. It was the heart of Europe – not that far away from the likes of Rome, Vienna and Budapest.

For Lacevic, the perfect life she had known in Sarajevo – skiing in the winter in the surrounding mountains and summers at the family vacation home in Croatia on the Adriatic coast – was now a distant memory.

Her mother, a physician, worked long shifts at the hospital, attending to the growing victims of snipers and grenades. Her father could not work as his engineering firm had been destroyed. Children no longer went to school. To leave home was to gamble with one’s life.

One day her father left to find food for the family and did not return home. He was hit by a grenade. The hospital was short on equipment and staff so an operation to remove pieces of grenade was too risky, which left him in critical care for a month. After months of uncertainty, Lacevic and her family were able to escape on a Red Cross Convoy to neighboring Croatia.

“That time in my life left a strong impression on me,” Lacevic said in a telephone interview. “I knew that I survived for a reason when so many did not. As the years passed, I became compelled to use my experience in a positive way. I wanted to contribute to making the world more just. There was a need born within me that I could not ignore.”

After leaving Croatia, Lacevic and her family moved to Nuremberg, Germany, where they lived until the war ended with the signing of the Dayton Peace Accords in Paris in December 1995. Since they could not return home because it was destroyed, they headed to the United States to pursue their version of the American Dream, first settling in Kentucky and then moving to Florida in 1998. Lacevic chose to attend the University of South Florida’s Honors College and major in English. She loved getting lost in books and stories.

“It is through reading hundreds of books – namely the Nancy Drew series among others that I learned to speak English when I moved to the U.S.,” she said. “Later on, it dawned on me that the use of language and words is very powerful. It’s an art form.”

From an early age Lacevic had been drawn to the study of language. English was her third language after Bosnian and German. After studying language and graduating at the top of her class at the University of South Florida, she decided that the next natural step was law school.

“Lawyers develop a keen ability to navigate through the complexities of the legal system and have the skill set to make a

huge impact. Sometimes that impact affects one person’s life for the better, other times it can affect millions of people,” Lacevic said.

At UF Law she was impressed by professors such as the late Mike Seigel, a former federal prosecutor who taught white collar criminal law; Stuart Cohn, an expert in business and corporate law; and Dennis Calfee (LLMT 75), a graduate of the first class of tax LL.M’s, who has since helped build UF Law’s tax law program, which is top ranked among public law schools.

Lacevic put her UF Law expertise to good use when she signed on with Amscot Financial, which operates over 235 branches in Florida and conducts over 20 million transactions annually on behalf of consumers, moving several billion dollars through the financial system every year. She noted that her work combines legal and business skills while working with government agencies and regulators in the financial services industry. Lacevic specializes in anti-money laundering, counter-terrorist financing and consumer protection.

Lacevic said Florida’s geographic location puts it at the center of criminal activity such as money laundering, human trafficking and tax-fraud identity theft. Money laundering at its core is the process of making dirty money look clean. She said human-trafficking generates dirty money, which money launderers then have to integrate into the financial system so they can avoid detection by the government. Amscot maintains records and reports certain transactions in accordance with federal regulations, providing a paper trail to assist the government and law enforcement.

“One red flag of potential human trafficking, for example, is the cashing of payroll checks where the majority of the funds are kept and controlled by the so called ‘employer,’” Lacevic said.

She was drawn to the field of anti-money laundering and consumer protection because of her experience witnessing

injustice early in life. She figures that working alongside regulators and law enforcement helps make the nation safer.

“It is such a unique opportunity to be a part of providing services to consumers, which helps them navigate their financial lives, while at the same time collaborating with the government and law enforcement in catching the bad guys and positively affecting state and federal policy,” Lacevic said.

Today, she is part of an elite circle of certified anti-money laundering specialists designated as CAMS. This internationally recognized credential is earned after rigorous self-study, a certification exam and continuing education through seminars and conferences.

Lacevic said she looks back on her experience in the war with quiet acceptance, as a driving force behind everything she does today.

“There is an unspoken cost of war,” she said. “It steals childhoods and permanently affects those who live through it.”

“I became compelled to use my experience in a positive way. I wanted

to contribute to making the world more just. There was a need born within me

that I could not ignore.”—NINA LACEVIC (JD 08)

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$1 million gift to support LL.M. tax studentsA U F L A W A L U M N U S H A S M A D E

A G E N E R O U S $ 1 M I L L I O N G I F T to the UF Law Taxation Program.

The gift will establish The Gradu-ate Tax Assistantship Fund, which will help UF Law provide financial aid to LL.M. students in the form of graduate research assistantships. This support

will allow UF Law to attract the best and most qualified LL.M. students.

“This is a truly extraordinary and timely gift. Significant competitive finan-cial benefits are very important to po-tential students who have employment opportunities and debt from previous schooling to consider,” said Michael Fri-el, associate dean and director of the Tax Program. “It allows us to make a year in our LL.M. program a financial possibility

for an outstanding student.” The donor, a Florida man who wishes

to remain anonymous, said a similar scholarship allowed him to attend Flori-da’s tax LL.M. program.

“The program made a significant influence on where I ended up in my career,” the donor said. “It was the best thing I ever did in education, and I’m glad I can now enhance the program and help the best students and professors.”

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Dean Laura Rosenbury said the donation further strengthens UF Law’s powerful tax program.

“We are nationally known for our outstanding tax faculty and our J.D. and LL.M. students who decide to pur-sue tax careers. This generous endow-ment means UF Law can attract even more academically gifted tax LL.M. students without regard to financial need,” Rosenbury said.

The gift is part cash pledge and part bequest. The UF Foundation will invest the gift in the form of an en-dowment so that the principal contin-ues to generate income indefinitely. That income will be used to recruit new students and offer financial sup-port. This gift has the potential to set a standard for support and for the quality of students in the tax LL.M. program, Friel said.

Both the donor and Friel hope that the gift spurs others to support UF Law’s tax offerings and its students.

UF Law ranks No. 1 among public school tax programs in the U.S. and ties for second overall, according to U.S. News & World Report. Gifts like these from committed alumni allow UF Law to continue its mission of pre-paring students for tax careers around the country and world.

Donations support student scholarshipsU F L AW WA N T S T O I N C R E A S E

the money available for scholarships to entering first-year J.D. students, ap-pealing to alumni and friends for help.

UF Law Dean Laura Rosen-bury said she hopes financial

incentives will encourage the matriculation of high-performing students.

“Having more targeted efforts to raise scholarship money for our students will obviously help us recruit an even more qualified entering class,” Rosenbury said.

Increasing first-year stu-dents’ median LSAT scores and grade point averages will bolster the law school’s U.S. News & World Report ranking. And that can mean a more valuable UF Law degree for alumni.

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To donate, call the Alumni Affairs Office at 352-273-0640.

H O W C A N D O M E S T I C V I O L E N C E S U R V I V O R S keep themselves and their children safe when they don’t know how to navigate the various agencies that provide basic needs or have the money to afford services?

UF Law has been part of the answer to this question since 2009 when UF Law Professor Teresa Drake received a U.S. Department of Justice grant for a multidisciplinary clinic to provide legal aid and other support to indigent domestic violence victims. In November, Florida Supreme Court Justice Barbara Pariente met with Drake to join the discussion.

The Intimate Partner Violence Assistance Clinic, known as IPVAC or the Source Program, provides wraparound legal, social work, victim advocacy and case management to aid survivors.

Drake and Pariente discussed how the clinic can continue to contribute to reform of statewide court practices and initiatives to help survivors of domestic violence and batterers in domestic vio-lence court. It’s part of a bid to tune the state judiciary into the con-sequences of domestic-violence trauma.

Pariente toured the clinic to learn more about the program dur-ing her visit. As a member of the Florida Women’s Hall of Fame and chair of the Supreme Court’s Steering Committee on Families and Children in the Courts, Pariente is passionate about improving how the needs of families in the community are met.

“I’m interested in the multidisciplinary approach of the clinic and the emphasis on trauma care, because if all you do is grant peti-tions, but don’t recognize the underlying trauma domestic violence may cause, the consequences of not doing so can be tremendous,” Pariente said. “The clinic is cutting edge and a model of what should be done throughout our state and country.”

As the first and only clinic of its kind in the country, the clinic has the opportunity to not only support victims in Alachua Coun-ty, but set a precedent for how we deal with domestic violence as a country.

The program benefits law students, too. It gives them the oppor-tunity to learn legal interviewing, counseling and

trial skills in a trauma-informed framework under the supervision of Drake. A clinical

social worker and clinical interns provide mental health and crisis intervention for clients, while a victim advocate/case manager helps find resources for survivors’ basic needs, whether that be housing, furniture or food.

IPVAC also helps survivors nego-tiate other systems they may encounter

due to their trauma. Law students inter-act with the Office of the State Attorney,

Office of The Public Defender, Department of

Children and Families, Child Protection Team and Child Advocacy Center, just to name a few.

The majority of the clinic’s work involve emergency injunctions, family law cases in state court and immigration visas for undocu-mented immigrants who, based on violence, are eligible for legal sta-tus. Drake said the clinic has represented people from 29 different countries.

IPVAC students partner with the College of Medicine’s Mobile Outreach Clinic, riding the bus to low-income housing complexes to provide survivors with domestic-violence screening and educa-tion. Law students train medical students to administer screens and make appropriate referrals for social services. Law students also respond to UF Health social workers who call from the hospital re-questing services for hospitalized survivors.

“Our students get the perspective of this multidisciplinary team where they can look at cases from all these different perspectives be-cause of the varying disciplines involved in servicing these survivors and all the professionals we work with,” Drake said.

IPVAC began with a two-year grant from the U.S. Department of Justice’s Office on Violence Against Women. The grant has been renewed twice, providing well over $1 million for the program. Now that the grant has ended, Drake hopes alumni and friends will part-ner with the school to help fund the clinic so that it can continue to serve students and the community.

“Domestic violence isn’t someone else’s problem; one in every four women will be affected in this country. This is everyone’s problem,” she said.

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Inside the Intimate Partner Violence Assistance Clinic on a tour

with Florida Supreme Court Justice Barbara Pariente are UF Law

Professor Jon Mills (JD 72), IPVAC director and Professor Teresa

Drake and 8th Judicial Circuit Judge James Colaw (JD 98).

PARTNERS

1950Henry P. Trawick Jr. will receive an honorary juris doctor degree from UF Law in recognition of his superior contributions to legal practice. He is scheduled to receive the honorary degree during the Dec. 17 graduation ceremony.

1954Robert Trohn, of GrayRobinson, was included in the Best Lawyers in America (2016) for his work in commercial litigation and personal injury litigation.

1963Roland Gomez Jr. has helped exceptional high school students fund college for the past 30 years through his Roland Gomez Scholarship. This year, winners each received $1,000 for college-related expenses.

1964Gerald F. Richman, president of Richman Greer, has been elected president of the Florida chapter of the American Board of Trial Advocates. His term began July 18, and he was sworn in by Supreme Court Chief Justice Jorge Labarga (JD 79). He has also served as president of the Palm Beach chapter of the board.

1965Sidney A. Stubbs Jr., of Jones, Foster, Johnston & Stubbs, P.A., was included in the Best Lawyers in America (2016) and was named a 2015 Florida Super Lawyer for his work in business litigation.

M. Stephen Turner, managing partner at Broad and Cassel’s Tallahassee office, was selected for Best Lawyers in America and a 2015 Florida Super Lawyer based on peer recognition and professional achievement. Turner specializes in business litigation.

1966Richard M. Robinson, of GrayRobinson, has been included in the Best Lawyers in America (2016) for his work in corporate law and tax law. He has been included in the Best Lawyers in America since 1995.

1967David L. Robbins, retired partner with Foley & Lardner LLP in Tampa, was awarded the Tampa Bay Cardozo Leadership Award. The award, given by the Cardozo Society, honors commitment to the legal community and the Tampa Bay Jewish community.

1968Stephen J. Bozarth, of Dean Mead, has been included in the Best Lawyers in America (2016) for his work in real estate litigation and real estate law.

1969Charles H. Egerton, of Dean Mead, has been included in the Best Lawyers in America (2016) for his work in tax law.

Robert W. Mead Jr., of Dean Mead, has been included in the Best Lawyers in America (2016)

for his work in corporate law and employee benefits law.

Frank J. Rief III, tax, trusts and estates lawyer, joined Allen Dell, P.A. in Tampa, as a shareholder. He is a member of the American Law Institute and a fellow of the American College of Trust and Estates Counsel and the American College of Tax Counsel. He has been named a Florida Super Lawyer and included in the Best Lawyers in America for his work in trusts and estates.

Mike Segal, partner at Broad and Cassel’s Miami office, was included in the Best Lawyers in America (2016).

1970Kenneth Barnett was appointed to the board of commissioners, South Broward Hospital District, by Florida Gov. Rick Scott. He succeeds Sara E. Wolfer.

William Van Nortwick Jr., former judge on Florida’s 1st District Court of Appeal, received The Florida Bar Foundation’s 2015 Medal of Honor award for his decades of work for pro bono and legal service organizations. He is partner-in-charge of Akerman LLP’s national pro-bono program and immediate past chair of The Florida Bar’s Standing Committee on Pro Bono Legal Service. He is also a member of the Florida Commission on Access to Civil Justice.

John C. Randolph, of Jones, Foster, Johnston & Stubbs, P.A., was recently included in the Best Lawyers in America (2016) for his work in the municipal law practice area.

H. Adams Weaver, of Jones, Foster, Johnston & Stubbs, P.A., was included in the Best Lawyers in America (2016) and was named a 2015 Florida Super Lawyer for his work in eminent domain.

1971Larry B. Alexander, of Jones, Foster, Johnston & Stubbs, P.A., was recently included in the Best Lawyers in America (2016) for his work in the real estate practice area.

Send your class notes to classnotes@law.ufl.edu or to: UF LAW magazine, Levin College of Law, University of Florida, P.O. Box 117633, Gainesville, FL 32611. The class notes deadline for the spring issue is April 11. Please limit submissions to 75 words or fewer by focusing on new endeavors and recognition.

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U F L A W A L U M N I C A M E T O G E T H E R with current and incoming law students for one of Florida’s premiere networking opportunities last summer: The third annual NaviGators Pro-gram, including past presidents of The Florida Bar and American Bar Association.

The NaviGators program is the brainchild of Paul C. Huck (JD 65), senior United States District Judge of the Southern District of Florida. “Charting the Course of Your Career” he designed to help current UF students prepare for their legal voyage.

UF Law alumni Stephen N. Zack (JD 71), former American Bar Association and Florida Bar president, and former Florida Bar President Eugene K. Pettis (JD 85) delivered opening remarks followed by legal panels featuring law firm partners and young lawyers.

The opening panel featured UF Law alumni Oscar A. Sanchez (JD 82), Lee Stapleton (JD 82), Holland & Knight recruiting coordinator Esther Rodriguez and UF Law Professor Shani King. UF Law’s Rob Birrenkott (JD 05), assistant dean for career services, moderated the discussion.

A later panel focused on younger lawyers and was moderated by Pedro Allende (JD 07). It featured Stephanie Moncada (JD 14), Erica Perdomo (JD 13), Dwayne A. Robinson (JD 11), Vanessa Snyder (JD 04) and Craig P. Thompson (JD 12).

Michael Brenner (1L) attended the panels and was one of roughly 15 students given the opportunity to have lunch with Huck and a handful of other prominent Miami judges.

“I thought the event was great, especially for a 1L who hasn’t even started law school,” Brenner said. “I mean Stephen Zack,

his name is on the building when you walk in. I didn’t know that when I saw him there. Then I came here and I saw his name and was like ‘wow, that’s the guy I just met.’”

Surprise guests Florida Supreme Court Chief Justice Jorge Labarga (JD 79) and UF Law Dean Laura A. Rosenbury made the trip to experience the uniquely UF event.

That commitment to the betterment of the school and the students runs through the veins of many alumni.

“Alumni who are willing to reach back and pull up students is something that is part of our culture, our heritage and our tradition,” Birrenkott said.

The only other event known to Birrenkott that approaches the NaviGators experience is another signature UF Law event involving Gator alumni from the Washington, D.C., area. UF Law students working in D.C. last summer traveled to a different venue every week to observe UF Law alumni at work in their legal careers.

With his annual program, Huck hopes to instill the necessity of acting in a professional, ethical and civil manner.

Brenner heard this message loud and clear. “We’re not just going to school, we’re going to a professional

school,” Brenner said. “Conduct yourself as a professional and start with your reputation from day one when you enter law school.”

He hopes future students will be given the same opportunity to learn from such an esteemed panel of guests. Luckily for students, Huck is firm about his plans.

“As long as I’m still here, we’re going to have this program,” Huck said.

Career kick startMiami NaviGators introduces students to Gator Law NationBY T I M G R OV E S ( 2 L )

“Alumni who are willing to reach

back and pull up students is

something that is part of our culture,

our heritage and our tradition.”

—ROB BIRRENKOTT (JD 05), UF LAW ASSISTANT DEAN

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Darryl M. Bloodworth, of Dean Mead, has been included in the Best Lawyers in America (2016) for his work in bet-the-company litigation and commercial litigation.

Phillip Finch, of GrayRobinson, has been included in the Best Lawyers in America (2016) for his work in real estate law. He has been included in the Best Lawyers in America’s since 2008.

William D. Townsend, of Dean Mead, has been included in the Best Lawyers in America (2016) for his work in tax law.

1972William H. Andrews, of GrayRobinson, was included in the Best Lawyers in America (2016) for his work in the areas of employment, labor law and litigation.

C. Kenny Bishop, of counsel at Broad and Cassel’s Orlando office, was included in the Best Lawyers in America (2016).

Gene Glasser, a shareholder in the wills, trusts and estates group of Greenspoon Marder Law, was named a Spirit of Healing Award honoree at Joe DiMaggio Children’s Hospital Foundation’s 2015 Circle of Friends Luncheon for his dedication of time and resources to ensure the hospital can provide medical care to patients regardless of their financial abilities. He is board certified in tax law, estate planning and administration and serves as a trustee for UF Law.

James Slater, partner at Broad and Cassel’s Orlando office, was included in the Best Lawyers in America (2016).

Robert V. Williams, partner with Burr & Forman LLP, was awarded the Hillsborough County Bar Association’s Herbert G. Goldburg Award. The award is the highest given by the association’s trial and litigation section, and it honors a trial lawyer who exhibits fairness, integrity and legal acumen. Williams is a member of Burr & Forman’s commercial litigation practice group.

1973John H. Dasburg has been honored as alumnus of the year for the Phi Delta Theta chapter. Dasburg is the only person to endow chairs in three different colleges at the University of Florida, including the John H. & Mary Lou Dasburg Professor of Law.

Pamela Price, of GrayRobinson, has been included in the Best Lawyers in America (2016) for her work in tax law and trusts and estates. She has been included in the Best Lawyers in America since 2012.

Leighton D. Yates Jr., partner at Holland & Knight LLP, has been inducted into Florida Trend’s Elite Hall of Fame. He is one of 11 inducted statewide this year. Yates co-leads Holland & Knight’s corporate/mergers and acquisitions national practice group.

1974Susan Clark, shareholder in Radey Law Firm, has been commissioned into the Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels by Kentucky Gov. Steven Beshear in recognition of her services to the commonwealth of Kentucky. The order supports Kentucky charities and needy organizations. Clark also became board certified in state and federal governmental and administrative practice.

Leslie Lott, of Lott & Fischer, spoke at “A View From the Bench: Super Stars Mock Trial” in October alongside judges from the 11th Judicial Circuit Court and South Florida’s most experienced trial lawyers. Lott has recently been recognized by Who’s Who Legal: Trademarks 2015, naming her among the top intellectual property lawyers worldwide. Lott is one of four lawyers to receive this recognition in Florida.

1975John D. Allen was awarded the third annual Emory Findley award for outstanding judicial service by the Council of Superior Court Judges. The award honors a judge who exemplifies the virtues of visionary leadership, resolve and dedication. Allen has served as a superior court judge for 20 years and a chief judge for four years.

David Gersten, former chief judge in Florida’s 3rd District Court of Appeal, has joined Gordon & Rees as a partner in the firm’s Miami office. He is a member of the firm’s commercial litigation practice group.

Terry Moore, of GrayRobinson, has been included in the Best Lawyers in America (2016) in the areas of real estate litigation and real estate law.

1976Ralph J. Humphries has been reappointed judge of compensation claims by Florida Gov. Rick Scott, a position he has held since 2010.

Charles Stratton, a partner with Broad and Cassel, was included in the Best Lawyers in America (2016) and Florida Super Lawyers (2015).

1977Lauren Y. Detzel, shareholder in Dean Mead and chair of its estate and succession planning department, has been included in the Best Lawyers in America (2016) for her work in trust and estate litigation, tax law and trusts and estates. She was also named among the “Top 100: 2015 Florida Super Lawyers” and the “Top 50 Women Lawyers in Florida.”

Richard T. Fulton, partner at BakerHostetler, has been included in the Best Lawyers in America (2016) for his work in real estate law.

David Rothman, partner in Rothman & Associates, has been appointed second vice president of The Florida Bar Foundation, a statewide charitable organization whose mission is to provide greater access to justice. Rothman served for more than a decade on The Florida Bar board of governors, was president of the Florida Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers and is immediate past chair of the criminal law section of The Florida Bar.

Dennis Wall is author of Lender Force-Placed Insurance Practices, which has been published by the American Bar Association. The book provides evidence of cases found in court files, although no case has gone to trial, and it is sponsored by

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the tort trial and insurance practice section of the ABA. He also co-presented the webinar “ALI and Law Liability Insurance: From Principles to Restatement,” discussing the rules of interpretation regarding liability insurance.

1978William Boyles (LLMT, JD 76), of GrayRobinson, has been included in the Best Lawyers in America (2016) for his work in health care law and tax law. This is his second consecutive time included in the list.

C. David Brown II, chairman in Broad and Cassel’s Orlando office, was selected as a 2016 Best Lawyer in America.

Dennis Campbell, founding member of Campbell Law Firm, has been included in the Best Lawyers in America (2016) for his work in commercial litigation, banking, bankruptcy, construction and real estate issues. He has also been recognized as a Top Lawyer by Florida Legal Elite and has been named a Florida Super Lawyer for the past 11 years.

Thomas Wilkes Jr., of GrayRobinson, has been included in the Best Lawyers in America (2016) for his work in government contracts and government relations practice. This is his second consecutive year included in the list.

1979Mark Greenberg has joined Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP as a partner and will become a member of the firm’s business litigation practice. He focuses on counseling, dispute resolution and disability insurance-related litigation.

Robert S. Griscti, of Dean Mead, has been included in the Best Lawyers in America (2016) for his work in white-collar and non-white-collar criminal defense law.

Steven C. Lee (LLMT, JD 78), of Dean Mead, has been included in the Best Lawyers in America (2016) for his work in tax law.

Jacqueline Miller, of counsel at Broad and Cassel’s West Palm Beach office, was selected as a 2016 Best Lawyer in America.

1980Usher L. Brown has joined Greenspoon Marder Law as a shareholder in the government relations group in its Orlando office. Brown has experience in constitutional law, government law, construction, commercial transactions, trade regulation and administrative law. He is board certified in civil trial and education law. He is also AV rated by Martindale-Hubbell for legal ability and ethics.

John W. Foster, partner with BakerHostetler, has been included in the Best Lawyers in America (2016) for his work in commercial litigation. Foster has more than 30 years of experience handling litigation, trials and appeals in Florida concerning family law and commercial and construction appeals. His firm has donated more than 1,283 hours toward pro bono work and was recognized by Orlando Business Journal for its service.

Russell Healey, Duval County judge, has been appointed to the 4th Circuit bench by Florida Gov. Rick Scott. He fills the vacancy created by the death of Judge Jean Johnson (JD 85). Healey brings more than 12 years of experience to the bench.

Philippe Jeck, managing partner of Jeck, Harris, Raynor & Jones, P.A., was elected to the Board and as chair-elect for the Northern Palm Beach County Chamber of Commerce, Inc for 2015-2016. He was also elected chairman of the board of directors for the 2014-2015 term. The chamber focuses on the development and retention of businesses by advocating for issues that affect the economic prosperity of the community and the quality of life of its residents.

Denis H. Noah, managing partner of Henderson Franklin, was named a Florida Super Lawyer for a fifth consecutive year for his work in real estate. He was also recognized by Florida Trend magazine’s Legal Elite and the Best Lawyers in America. He currently serves on the Horizon Council of Lee County’s board of directors and is a member of the Attorney’s Title Insurance Fund advisory board.

David L. Smith, of GrayRobinson, has been included in the Best Lawyers in America (2016) in the practice area of banking and finance law.

Robert J. Webb, partner at BakerHostetler, was included in the Best Lawyers in America (2016) for real estate law and leisure and hospitality law.

1981R. Mason Blake, of Dean Mead, has been included in the Best Lawyers in America (2016) for his work in real estate law.

Richard Comiter (LLMT, JD 80), of tax law firm Comiter, Singer, Baseman & Braun in Palm Beach Gardens, has been named a 2015 Florida Super Lawyer.

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Carolyn Cummings, partner at Cummings & Hobbs, was awarded The Florida Bar President’s Pro Bono Service Award. She represents indigent clients through the Legal Aid Foundation of the Tallahassee Bar Association and the Tallahassee Barristers. She continues to exceed the minimum pro bono hours required by the Tallahassee Bar Association each year.

Bruce Hoffman, head of the global competition practice at Hunton & Williams, has been recognized in Washington’s Best Lawyers and International Who’s Who of Competition Lawyers for his accomplishments in antitrust and competition law. He was also named a Washington, D.C. Super Lawyer and ranked a leader in antitrust by Chambers USA. He was recently admitted as a fellow in the Litigation Counsel of America, an invitation-only trial lawyer honor society.

Kimberly Johnson, partner with Quarles & Brady, has been named a “2015 Florida Legal Elite” in Florida Trend magazine. Johnson is a fellow of the American Bar Foundation and practices in the area of trusts and estates.

Emerson Lotzia (LLMT), partner at Foley & Lardner in Jacksonville, was awarded The Florida Bar President’s Pro Bono Service Award for his work with Jacksonville Area Legal Aid Inc.’s Community Counsel Program in representing nonprofit organizations that benefit low-income people.

1982Nash J. Hedrick Jr., of Donoghue & Associates, has become board certified in civil trial law.

Richard Jacobson, of Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney, has been named a 2016 “Lawyer of the Year.” He practices in the area of international trade and finance law.

Charles McBurney Jr. is chairman of the Judiciary Committee for the Florida House of Representatives.

Michael D. Minton (LLMT, JD 81), of Dean Mead, has been included in the Best Lawyers in America (2016) for his work in tax law.

Charles E. Williams was elected to serve a two-year term as chief judge of the 12th Judicial Circuit, encompassing Manatee, Sarasota and DeSoto counties. As primary administrative judge for the circuit, Williams will be involved in budget, personnel and judicial assignment decisions. He will also be a liaison to the Florida Supreme Court.

1983Guy Haggard, shareholder in GrayRobinson’s Orlando office, received his board certification from The Florida Bar in aviation law. Haggard is one of only 37 attorneys in Florida who have earned this highest level of evaluation of compe-tency, experience, professionalism and ethics in aviation law by the bar. He has practiced law for more than 30 years and represents aviation companies, aircraft owners and manufacturers and government airport and space agencies.

Scott G. Hawkins, of Jones, Foster, Johnston & Stubbs, P.A. in West Palm Beach, was included in the Best Lawyers in America (2016) and named a 2015 Florida Super Lawyer for his work in business litigation.

Stephen Kussner, of GrayRobinson, has been included in the Best Lawyers in America (2016) in the real estate practice area. He has been included on the list since 2003.

Michael Levey (LLMT), partner in Quarles & Brady’s business law practice group, has been appointed the firm’s national pro bono partner. He was recently honored for his work in health care law by Best Lawyers in America and named a 2015 “Lawyer of the Year.”

1984David J. Akins, of Dean Mead, has been included in the Best Lawyers in America (2016) for his work in trusts and estates.

Michael Bedke was honored at the American Bar Association’s Commission on Domestic & Sexual Violence’s 20th anniversary for his instrumental role in advancing and advocating for the commission, which aims to mobilize the legal profession to increase access to justice for survivors. He was among 17 to receive the

20/20 Vision Award at the event for the service he has provided to survivors of domestic violence, sexual assault and stalking.

John D. Emmanuel, of Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney, has been named a 2016 “Lawyer of the Year” by Best Lawyers in America. Emmanuel practices in the area of bankruptcy and creditor debtor rights/insolvency and reorganization law and bankruptcy litigation.

Andrea Zelman, of Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney, has been named a 2016 “Lawyer of the Year” by Best Lawyers in America. Zelman practices in the area of land use and zoning.

1985W. Michael Clifford (LLMT, JD 76), of GrayRobinson, has been named to the Best Lawyers in America (2016) for his work in trusts and estates. He has been included in the list since 2007.

Carol Collier-Smith has been elected to a key leadership position on the board of directors for the National Association of Consumer Bankruptcy Attorneys.

Steven Ellison, partner at Broad and Cassel’s West Palm Beach office, was included in the 2016 Best Lawyers in America.

John Leighton, was named to the “Top 100 Miami” list for Super Lawyers, to the Best Lawyers in America for personal injury and wrongful death, a “Top Lawyer” in South Florida and an “Orlando Legal Elite.” His book Litigating Premises Security Cases is the most widely used text on premise security litigation.

Stephen R. Looney (LLMT, JD 76), of Dean Mead, has been included in the Best Lawyers in America (2016) for his work in tax law.

Michael Neukamm, of GrayRobinson, has been included in Best Lawyers in America (2016) for his work in corporate compliance law, corporate law and securities/capital markets law. He has been included in the Best Lawyers in America since 2010.

William Schifino, managing partner of the Tampa office of Burr & Forman, will serve

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as a designated director on the board of The Florida Bar Foundation. Schifino is president-elect of the foundation, past president of the Hillsborough County Bar Association and the current president of the Hillsborough County Bar Foundation. He is president-elect of The Florida Bar.

Guy Whitesman (LLMT), chair of Henderson Franklin’s mergers & acquisitions, business organizations and planning, tax and intellectual property practice areas, was named a Florida Super Lawyer for the ninth time for his work in tax law. He is past chair of the tax section of The Florida Bar and past chairman of the tax law certification committee, which oversees the board-certification process.

1986Elizabeth A. Green, of BakerHostetler in Orlando, has been named “Lawyer of the Year” for her work in bankruptcy and creditor debtor rights/insolvency and reorganization law. She was also recognized in the Best Lawyers in America for bankruptcy litigation. Green recently became leader of BakerHostetler’s national bankruptcy, restructuring and creditors’ rights team where she oversees more than 50 lawyers from seven offices. She is also a member of the policy committee, the firm’s governing body. She is a fellow in the American College of bankruptcy and an adjunct UF Law professor.

Fred Schrils, of GrayRobinson, has been named to the 2016 Best Lawyers in America in the commercial-litigation practice area. This is Schrils’ second consecutive year with this distinction.

Michael K. Wilson, partner at Broad and Cassel’s Orlando office, was selected for the 2016 Best Lawyers in America.

1987 Larry Brant (LLMT), a shareholder in Garvey Schubert Barer, received the taxation section’s Award of Merit at the Oregon Tax Institute in June. The award recognizes professionalism in tax law in Oregon, considering reputation, conduct, leadership activities and pro bono service. Brant is a member of the board of directors of the Portland Tax Forum and is a past chair of the Oregon State Bar taxation section.

Mayanne Downs, shareholder in GrayRobinson and chair of the litigation department in its Orlando office, has been included in the Best Lawyers in America (2016) for her work in bet-the-company litigation, commercial litigation and family law. She was also recently named the eighth most powerful person in Orlando by Orlando Magazine. This is the fourth consecutive year Downs has been included on the magazine’s “50 Most Powerful” list, which includes political figures, university presidents, philanthropists, business owners and other influential professionals. Downs has practiced law for more than 25 years and practices commercial litigation. She briefly served as president of The Florida Bar and Orange County Bar Association.

James V. Etscorn, managing partner at BakerHostetler, has been named a 2016 “Lawyer of the Year” for intellectual property litigation. He was also included in the Best Lawyers in America (2016) for his work in commercial litigation and product liability litigation.

Thomas Gunderson was named to the Florida Super Lawyers for the sixth consecutive year for his work in real estate. He is board certified in real estate law and has been recognized by Florida Trend magazine’s “Legal Elite” and the Best Lawyers in America.

Steven G. Horn, assistant chief counsel at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, has been named NASA’s Attorney of the Year for his work in defending the agency’s decision to award contracts to Boeing and SpaceX for the transportation of astronauts to the International Space Station. Horn specializes in contracts and labor-related issues and previously worked in the Air Force’s Judge Advocate General Department.

Leonor Lagomasino, veteran life, health and disability insurance litigation attorney, has become a partner with Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP in Miami. She will join the firm’s business litigation practice in addition to her current positions as vice chair of DRI Life, Health and Disability Committee, active member on the boards of both the Deering Estate Foundation and the Dade Heritage Trust, and member of the United Way Women’s Leadership Circle.

Paul Quinn Jr., of GrayRobinson, has been included in the Best Lawyers in America (2016) for his work in real estate law. He has been included in the Best Lawyers in America since 2013.

David L. Schick, partner at BakerHostetler, has been included in the Best Lawyers in America (2016) for his work in corporate law, employee benefits (ERISA) law and health care law.

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Jeffrey Shear joined Quarles & Brady LLP’s Tampa office as a partner in its real estate practice group. Shear represents developers, lenders and investors in the acquisition and development of commercial and residential real estate.

Laura Jo Thacker, partner at Broad and Cassel’s Orlando office, was included in the Best Lawyers in America (2016).

1988Jane D. Callahan (JD 87), of Dean Mead, has been included in the Best Lawyers in America (2016) for her work in nonprofit law and tax law.

John Potanovic, chair of Henderson Franklin’s Employment Law practice group, was included on the Florida Super Lawyers for the sixth consecutive year for his work in employment and labor law. As a board-certified labor and employment law attorney, he defends employers in discrimination and harassment lawsuits. He has also received a Martindale-Hubbell AV rating.

1989Marc D. Chapman, of Dean Mead, has been included in the Best Lawyers in America (2016) for his work in trust and estate litigation.

Brian Feldman, senior partner at Allison + Partners in Atlanta, has been selected to the board of the New American Leaders Project, the only national nonpartisan organization focused on training new American leaders for civic leadership.

David A. Hallman was honored with the establishment of the David A. Hallman Lecture Series on Ethics and the Practice of Law by the Robert M. Foster American Inn of Court in Nassau County. The series posthumously recognizes Hallman for his professional conduct and dedication to the practice of law. A plaque celebrating Hallman is on permanent display in the courthouse.

Thomas Mills Fleming, of HunterMaclean, has been included in the Best Lawyers in America (2016) for his work in health care law and immigration law.

Howard McGillin, gubernatorial appointee to the 7th Judicial Circuit Court, had his formal investiture at Flagler College in March.

Susan Spahn (LLMT), has become a shareholder and officer in Endacott, Peetz & Timmer. She will manage the firm’s Omaha, Nebraska office. Spahn is a fellow in the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel and an officer of the Omaha Estate Planning Council.

1990Peter Goldman, partner at Broad and Cassel’s Fort Lauderdale office, was included in the Best Lawyers in America (2016).

David Mark Hullender (LLMT) was appointed Deputy Commissioner of the North Carolina Industrial Commission. As commissioner, he will conduct hearings in matters regarding the state Workers Compensation Act and the NC Tort Claims Act. He is also a commissioner of the North Carolina Indigent Defense Services Commission and has more than 25 years of private practice experience.

Bradley Saxton, of Winderweedle, Haines, Ward and Woodman, was named to the 2015 Super Lawyers list and was selected as a 2015 “Legal Elite” attorney by Florida Trend magazine.

Robert G. Stern, of the Trenam law firm, has been appointed co-leader of the Real Estate & Lending Transactions practice. He was recently appointed to the UF board of trustees by Florida Gov. Rick Scott and focuses his work in commercial real estate.

Robert W. Thielhelm Jr., partner at BakerHostetler, has been included in the Best Lawyers in America (2016) for his work in commercial litigation.

1991Todd Bradley, a partner with Cummings & Lockwood LLC’s Naples office, was included in the Best Lawyers in America (2016) in trusts and estates, and named to the 2015 Florida Super Lawyers in the estate and probate practice area.

Keith Grossman, founder and managing partner with Grossman Law & Conflict Management, was named one of Super Lawyers’ top attorneys in Florida for 2015. Grossman hosted an annual fishing tournament to raise money for the Crohn’s and Colitis Center at the University of Miami. The center provides treatment for those with intestinal bowel diseases. He also presented “Peace Chest Prelude,” a program intended to help business owners, managers and employees effectively de-escalate or prevent conflict. In June, he will be a featured speaker at a meeting of the Greater Fort Myers Chamber of Commerce to discuss how negotiating can impact a business.

Elizabeth Pekin co-founded and serves as president of Momentum Funding, LLC, an organization that provides funding to plaintiffs in personal injury and workers’ compensation cases. Pekin was recently approved by The Florida Bar to teach “Ethical Issues and Client Benefits of Legal Funding.” She has more than 12 years of experience in the legal funding industry.

Mark Rosman, partner with Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati in Washington, D.C., was appointed chair of the ABA section of Antitrust Law’s Cartel and Criminal Practice Committee.

Edwin A. Scales III, judge on the 3rd District Court of Appeal, has been appointed by the Florida Supreme Court to the board of The Florida Bar Foundation. Scales was re-elected four times to The Florida Bar Board of Governors, serving three years on the executive committee and chairing its legislation committee and its citizens’ forum.

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H O WA R D B R I L L ( J D 7 0 ) S AT I N N O R T H E R N N I G E R I A , filling out an application to UF Law roughly two years after graduating from Duke University in 1965. Today, Brill sits as chief justice of the Ar-kansas Supreme Court.

“I’m still a bit overwhelmed by the challenges and responsibility,” Brill said. “But I’m certainly enjoying the work and the chance to be here at the court.”

Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson appointed Brill to serve the final 16 months of former Chief Justice Jim Hannah’s term. Hannah retired early due to health issues, and Brill assumed the position of chief justice of the Arkansas Supreme Court on Sept. 1.

Brill was inspired by President John F. Kennedy to join the newly formed United States Peace Corps. After graduating from Duke, Brill signed up to teach in the predominantly Muslim region of Nigeria, where he would spend two and a half years after college.

The experience made him realize how much he enjoyed teaching, and that he wanted to go to law school. Brill was raised in Daytona Beach so the University of Florida was the obvious choice. He started courses in Gainesville soon after sending his application postmarked from Nigeria.

After graduation and a year as a law clerk, Brill returned to UF Law as legal writing coordinator. His desire to practice law before hunkering down in legal education led him to Rock Island, Illinois, where he spent two years as a law firm associate.

“That experience taught me I would rather teach than practice law,” Brill said with a laugh.

He worked at the University of Illinois as a teaching fellow before traveling to Arkansas for an interview. He had never been to the state in his life.

“I only knew two things about the state of Arkansas: Little Rock Central High School and Orval Faubus, and Frank Broyles and the Razorbacks,” he said. “That’s basically all I knew.”

Forty years on, the law faculty at the University of Arkansas has taught him a few things. Brill spent 15 years as the liaison between the athletic department and academics, served as interim dean for a year, wrote two books, published numerous law review articles and even spoke multiple times at the Symposium on Baseball and American Culture in Cooperstown, New York.

For now, Brill has gone from professor to chief justice. To hear him tell it, he’s the one learning from those who used to be his students, two of whom sit beside him on the Arkansas Supreme Court.

“We are trying to find our relationship,” he said. “It used to be professor and student and now we’re judges. It’s fun to see because they have been judges for 10 or 15 years and have far more judicial experience than I have. So it’s almost like they’re the teacher now and I’m the student.”

Brill was immediately thrust into the fray as criminal cases came before the Arkansas Supreme in his second week on the job.

UF Law Senior Legal Skills Professor and former criminal trial attorney Jennifer Zedalis (JD 84) said Brill’s professional background is unusual for a chief justice of a state supreme court. While it is not

entirely unprecedented to see a legal professor appointed, the vast majority of justices have extensive judicial experience because it gives a track record of adjudicating cases and how they go about the day-to-day work of a judge.

Zedalis predicted that attorneys who come before him will appreciate Brill’s ability to bring the neutral outlook of a law professor to the bench. After all, the professor’s job is to help students understand the pros and cons of each viewpoint and not to steer them toward one in particular.

“Those of us on the inside of the legal profession – practicing attorneys, law professors, law teachers –we hope to see judges appointed at the state supreme

court level who have neutrality and objectivity,” she said. “They can understand issues and apply constitutional principles in a way that we think is free from potentially reactionary decision-making.”

Zedalis added that a strong academic record, work ethic and strong professional conduct are viewed as prerequisites for the job, all of which Brill possess.

What’s more, Brill is not without experience judging at the appellate level. He has been appointed on three separate occasions to serve as a special justice on the Arkansas Supreme Court when justices recused themselves from cases. In that job, Brill participated in conferences, opinion writing and oral arguments.

Brill says he will not seek election to a full term, but will instead return to what he has done since 1975: teach at the University of Arkansas School of Law. In fact, he has already been back to Fayetteville, Arkansas, to speak with his students.

“They were asking how things are going and I’m telling some of them, ‘you know before you graduate, I’ll be back here,’” Brill said. “And for some of them I can say, ‘when you pass the bar exam in three months or six months, I’ll be down there to swear you in.’”

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Steven Solomon, of GrayRobinson, was included in the Best Lawyers in America (2016) in the areas of litigation and bankruptcy and creditor/debtor rights. He has been honored on this list since 2010.

John V. Tucker, managing shareholder in Tucker & Ludin, P.A., presented “How to Get the VA to Recognize Standard Vocational Concepts” at the National Organization for Veterans Advocates’ national law conference. The program taught how to serve veterans with service-connected disability claims.

Thomas Winokur was appointed to the 1st District Court of Appeal by Florida Gov. Rick Scott. Winokur served as assistant general counsel for the executive office of the governor since 2011. He fills a vacancy created by the resignation of Judge Nikki Clark.

1992Oliver David Barksdale, of Bedell, Dittmar, DeVault, Pillans & Coxe, P.A., has been elected treasurer of the executive council of The Florida Bar’s criminal law section.

Nelson Bellido, of Roig Lawyers, spoke on the “Closing the Deal” panel of the 2015 Corporate Counsel Conference and Uvaldo Herrera Moot Court Competition. The panel focused on refining skillsets to make the winning pitch, creating a personal brand, credibility and influence through communication. Bellido was also named to the 2015 Super Lawyers and has been featured in 2014 Super Lawyers Business Edition for his work in business litigation.

Nancy Freeman, of Winderweedle, Haines, Ward and Woodman, was named to the 2015 Florida Super Lawyers based on peer evaluation and professional accomplishments.

Courtney K. Grimm, attorney with the Bedell Law Firm in Jacksonville, has been named chair of The Florida Bar’s trial lawyers section.

Kenneth LaRoe, chairman and chief executive officer of First Green Bank, has been named the winner of the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award for the financial services

category. He was elected from a panel of judges and nearly 80 nominations, and he is one of only two Central Florida entrepreneurs to receive this honor. LaRoe founded Florida Choice Bank and First Green Bank.

Michael McHugh was elected chief judge for the 20th Judicial Circuit.

1993Paul D. Bain, of the Trenam law firm, has been appointed co-leader of the practice’s commercial litigation group.

Heather Brock, of Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney, has been named a 2016 “Lawyer of the Year” for labor and employment litigation in Tampa by Best Lawyers in America.

Thomas Falkinburg will oversee the Medicaid Integrity Institute as an attorney adviser of the U.S. Department of Justice’s Office of Legal Education. Before joining the department, Falkinburg served as a trial attorney in the educational opportunities section of the Civil Rights Division in the Department of Justice.

Carl V. Romano, partner at Broad and Cassel’s West Palm office, was included in the Best Lawyers in America (2016).

Erik Shuman, shareholder in GrayRobinson’s Melbourne and Orlando offices, was awarded chief judge by Brevard County Bar Association for his service to the 18th Judicial Circuit in attorney probate training. He gave a presentation on “Do’s and Don’ts of Local Probate and Guardianship Practice” and he sponsors the training programs. Shuman was also recently named a 2016 “Best Lawyer in America” for his work in the corporate law practice area.

Milo S. Thomas, shareholder in Rogers Towers, was appointed chair of the Florida Elections Commission by Florida Gov. Rick Scott.

1994Christopher B. Lunny, a shareholder in the Radey Law Firm, has been named to the

2015 Florida Super Lawyers and as one of Florida Trend’s 2015 “Legal Elite” in labor and employment law.

Jack Reiter, of GrayRobinson, was included in the Best Lawyers in America (2016) for his work in the appellate practice area. He has been honored on the list since 2010.

Keith Rizzardi, special counsel at Jones, Foster, Johnston & Stubbs, P.A., recently taught Environmental Negotiation at the China University of Political Science and Law in Beijing. Rizzardi used role play exercises to teach the importance of preparation, alternatives analysis and coalition building.

James T. Tucker has joined Armstrong Teasdale as of counsel in the firm’s litigation practice group. Tucker has more than 20 years of experience in voting rights litigation as well as defending employers against work-related claims. Prior to joining the firm, Tucker served as a senior trial attorney at the U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division, voting section.

1995Richard Coaxum Jr. has joined Baker Donelson as of counsel in the firm’s Orlando business group. He is experienced in litigation concerning the operation of startup ventures, financial advisory firms and Fortune 500 companies. He has worked as a general counsel, chief legal officer and adviser to executive management teams and private investors.

Teri Kaklis Dees, partner at Weiffenbach & Kaklis in Bradenton, was sworn in as the newest 12th Judicial Circuit Court judge by Florida Gov. Rick Scott. She fills the vacancy left from the retirement of Judge Lee Haworth.

Carl Rosen, partner at Broad and Cassel’s Boca Raton office, was included in the Best Lawyers in America (2016).

Jewel White, an attorney with the Pinellas County Attorney’s Office, has been appointed first vice president of The Florida Bar

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Foundation. White is board certified in city, county and local government and represents both the general county government and the Pinellas County supervisor of elections and Canvassing Board.

1996Gregory Brown, shareholder in the litigation group of Hill Ward Henderson, P.A., has been reappointed to a three-year term on the board of The Florida Bar Foundation. Brown was appointed to serve on The Florida Bar’s Civil Procedure Rules Committee and has served several terms as an elected board member of The Florida Bar Board of Governors, Young Lawyers Division, as vice chair of the Florida Law Related Education Committee and as an ex-officio board member of the Hillsborough County Bar Association.

1997 Marve Alaimo, a partner with Cummings & Lockwood LLC’s Bonita Springs office, was included in 2015’s Florida Super Lawyers in the estate and probate practice area.

S. Elise Batsel has joined Phelps Dunbar’s Tampa office as counsel. Batsel practices in the areas of commercial real estate, land use and zoning, representing developers and institutional lenders.

John M. Belcastro has been selected a fourth time by Florida Super Lawyers magazine for his work in construction litigation. He is AV rated by Martindale-Hubbell and has been recognized by Florida Trend magazine as an “Up and Comer” and by Florida Trend magazine’s “Legal Elite.”

Scott A. Cookson, of ShuffieldLowman and city attorney for Ocoee, Florida, has been included in the Best Lawyers in America (2016) for his work in the real estate law practice area. Cookson has experience in the areas of transactional, real estate, local government, land use and commercial leasing law.

Robert H. Gebaide, partner at BakerHostetler, was included in the Best Lawyers in America (2016) for his work in real estate law, and leisure and hospitality law.

Nicole Goetz, of Nicole L. Goetz P.L. in Naples, presented “Family Law: Recent Legislative (In)Action and a Brief Overview of the Intersection with Other Practice Areas” at the Collier County trial lawyers section monthly meeting in June. Topics included recently proposed House and Senate legislation, an update of same-sex marriage in Florida and the overlap of family law with corporate/commercial, real estate, personal injury and criminal law.

Jason Lazarus, of Holland & Knight, received the Legal Aid Society of Palm Beach County’s Civil Litigation Award and was inducted into its Pro Bono Hall of Fame in May.

Christopher Nash, Hillsborough County judge, has been appointed to the 13th Judicial Circuit Court by Florida Gov. Rick Scott, replacing Judge Ed Bergmann. Before serving as a judge, he practiced with both Leavengood, Nash, Dauval & Boyle, P.A. and Akerman LLP.

1998Nicole Atkinson, shareholder in Gunster, has been elected chair of the board of directors of the Women’s Foundation of Palm Beach County.

The foundation is a nonprofit that aims to make leaders of women. Atkinson is serving her second two-year term on the board and serves on the diversity committee. She also co-chairs Gunster’s Women’s Leadership Forum.

Bradley J. Bondi was welcomed as a partner with Cahill’s litigation practice group and leader of its securities enforcement and regulatory practices. He was also featured as a moderator at the STAGE Network’s webinar panel discussion with attorneys on how companies and their counsels can manage and litigate complicated multistate cases.

Gregory P. Bru, of Armbrecht Jackson, has been included in the Best Lawyers in America (2016) for his work in business organizations, including LLCs and partnerships.

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Tina Caraballo has been elected Orange County judge for the 2014-2016 term.

Richard Mitchell, shareholder in GrayRobinson’s Orlando office, was appointed to the board of directors of Give Kids the World, a nonprofit resort that provides free fantasy vacations to families of children with life-threatening illnesses. He is chair of the higher education practice group and has more than 16 years of litigation experience.

Wesley Tibbals has been appointed to the 13th Judicial Circuit Court by Florida Gov. Rick Scott. He has 17 years of experience and has practiced law with Akerman, LLP and Sivyer, Barlow & Watson, P.A.

1999John Badalamenti, assistant in the appellate division of the Office of Federal Defender, has been appointed to the 2nd District Court of Appeal by Florida Gov. Rick Scott, replacing Judge Charles A. Davis (JD 75). Badalamenti previously served as a law clerk to Judge Paul H. Roney and as an attorney for the U.S. Department of Justice’s Federal Bureau of Prisons.

Ryan E. Davis, of Winderweedle, Haines, Ward & Woodman, P.A., has been named a 2015 “Legal Elite” attorney by Florida Trend magazine and included in 2015’s Florida Super Lawyers. Davis is board certified in business bankruptcy law. In addition to bankruptcy, he resolves commercial litigation matters, like those involving creditors’ rights.

Greg Harrell, general counsel to the clerk of the circuit court and comptroller for Marion County, has been elected president of the Marion County Bar Association for 2015-2016.

Janella Kayla Leibovitz, sole practitioner in Sarasota, was awarded The Florida Bar President’s Pro Bono Service Award. She volunteers one day each week at Legal Aid of Manasota, Inc. and has accumulated more than 300 hours of pro bono service in the past three years. She has been awarded both a pro bono intake award from Legal Aid of Manasota and the Florida Supreme Court gold pin.

J. Grier Pressly III, a partner with Pressly & Pressly, P.A. in West Palm Beach, has become president of the Palm Beach County Bar Association, 2015-2016. He is the second Pressly & Pressly member to serve as president, the other being his father James G. Pressly Jr. (JD 72).

Stefan Rubin, partner with Shutts & Bowen LLP, was appointed president of the Orlando chapter of the Association for Corporate Growth. The association connects professionals involved in driving middle-market corporate growth, mergers and acquisitions. Rubin was also recently reappointed as chair of the Corporations, Securities and Financial Services Committee of the business law section of The Florida Bar.

Jeannine Williams, assistant city attorney for the city of St. Petersburg, was awarded The Florida Bar President’s Pro Bono Service Award for her commitment to public service.

2000Melinda Giftos, managing shareholder in Whyte Hirschboeck Dudek S.C.’s Madison, Wisconsin, office, has been appointed a leader of the firm’s technology law team.

Mark Kiser, has been appointed to the 13th Judicial Circuit Court by Florida Gov. Rick Scott, replacing Matthew Lucas (JD 00). Kiser has practiced with both Trenam Law Firm and Zimmerman, Kiser and Sutcliffe, P.A. in the past.

Michelle Naberhaus, probate, trust and guardianship litigation lawyer, joined Dean Mead’s Brevard County Office as of counsel in the estate and succession planning department. She has more than 15 years of experience and serves on the board of directors for the Brevard County Bar Association and as a member of the Probate Rules Committee of The Florida Bar. In 2011, she received LEAD Brevard’s “4 Under 40” award.

Dean Xenick has joined Zele Huber Trial Attorneys as of counsel. Xenick currently serves as director of the Palm Beach County Bar Association and has more than 15 years of

litigation experience. He was named a “Rising Star” and “Outstanding Young Lawyer,” listed in Best Lawyers in America and given an AV Preeminent rating by Martindale-Hubbell.

2001Ben Alexander, of Jones, Foster, Johnston & Stubbs, P.A., was recently included in Best Lawyers in America (2016) for his work in the real estate practice area.

Trevor Arnold, of GrayRobinson, has been included in Best Lawyers in America (2016)for his work in construction law and litigation. He has been included on Best Lawyers in America since 2010.

Mary-Ellen Cross, sole practitioner in Gainesville, was awarded The Florida Bar President’s Pro Bono Service Award. She serves pro bono clients referred through Three Rivers Legal Services, Inc.

Bradley Gould, a shareholder in Dean, Mead, Minton & Zwemer, presented “Tax and Succession Planning for Agricultural Businesses” at the 2015 Florida Agriculture Financial Management Conference. He also served as a moderator and presenter at the ABA tax section’s May meeting in Washington, D.C. He presented the Current Developments Program for the S Corporation Committee. Gould also was a guest speaker at the Florida Institute of Certified Public Accountants 2015 Mega CPE Conference in June, providing an overview of tax and estate planning issues concerning spouses in same-sex marriages resulting from the overturning of DOMA.

Christine Marlewski Donoghue, of GrayRobinson, served as a faculty member for the International Association of Defense Counsel’s 43rd annual trial academy at Stanford Law School. The academy is one of the oldest programs for developing defense trial advocacy skills in the country.

Charles D Radeline, founding member of Radeline Law Firm, has been named an expert in marital and family law and has become board-certified by The Florida Bar.

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William Riley Jr., shareholder in GrayRobinson’s Miami office, has been appointed to the Court Capital Infrastructure Task Force by the Miami-Dade board of county commissioners. The task force identifies trial court infrastructure needs and repairs. It also recommends ways to finance repairs and the expansion of the facilities.

Shayne A. Thomas has become a shareholder in GrayRobinson, P.A. in Orlando. She concentrates on commercial litigation, products liability and business tort litigation.

2002Nancy Cason has been named a 2015 “Rising Star” for the fourth consecutive year. She also recently received Legal Aid of Manasota’s bronze award, recognizing her for pro bono legal service to the community.

Debra D. Faulk, of GrayRobinson, has been included in the Best Lawyers in America (2016) in the copyright law, litigation and trademark law practice areas.

Brian Koch, a shareholder in Greenberg Traurig P.A., was named 2015 “Fort Lauderdale Man of the Year” by the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society for raising $42,000 for cancer research over a 10-week period. He was honored at the Journey of Hope Grand Finale Gala.

Steven Kramer, founder and managing partner of Kramer Law Firm, P.A., was awarded The Florida Bar President’s Pro Bono Service Award. The award recognizes individuals who make public service commitments to volunteer free legal services to the poor. Kramer participates in the pro bono

program of the Seminole County Bar Association Legal Aid Society and helped to establish the foreclosure legal clinic to offer free legal advice to low-income residents.

Theodore S. Kypreos, of Jones, Foster, Johnston & Stubbs, P.A., was included in the Best Lawyers in America (2016) and the 2015 Florida Super Lawyers for his work in estate planning and probate.

Diana Martin, of counsel with Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll, will serve as a designated director on the board of The Florida Bar Foundation. Martin is Florida Legal Services president and handles litigation in areas including tort liability, product liability, managed care liability and consumer class actions.

Jennifer Olmedo-Rodriguez, a shareholder in

Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney, appeared as a guest on WPBT2’s “Issues: Preparing for Business in Cuba.” She discussed her first-hand account of life in Cuba and the potential risks and benefits of doing business in Cuba.

Christopher Rumbold, a leading voice in the marital equality movement, has recently opened his firm, the Law Office of Christopher W. Rumbold. The firm was named Boutique Law Firm of the Month and focuses on traditional and same-sex marital and family law, including dissolution, prenuptial agreements, cohabitation agreements and child support, among other things. Rumbold is a Florida Supreme Court certified family law mediator and former partner with Gladstone & Weissman, P.A.

2003Brian R. Dorn, has joined Arthrex Inc. in Naples as intellectual property counsel.

Cristina Papanikos, of Gunster’s Miami office, has been selected for the inaugural class of the Florida Fellows Institute. The institute aims to develop leaders in trust and estate law through educational presentations led by experts from across the U.S. Papanikos is a member of Gunster’s Women’s Leadership Forum.

Gilberto Sanchez, of Sanchez Valencia, successfully fought for the passage of SB 162: Florida Unborn Victims of Violence Act. This is a historic moment because the Florida legislature has been trying to pass this piece of legislation for almost a decade.

Peter A. Schippits (LLMT), joined CBRE as the senior managing director and market leader for the Colorado region where he will oversee about 500 employees. As a leader in the Colorado commercial real estate industry, he has received the 2011 “Top Gun” award and the 2010 and 2012 “Top Achiever” awards. He has also served on the JLL Leadership Council in 2010 and 2013.

Keith Weidner, of Taylor, Warren & Weidner, has been named a 2015 Florida Super Lawyers “Rising Star” for the third consecutive year. Weidner practices in the areas of personal injury, insurance disputes and general business disputes.

2004JaDawnya C. Butler was sworn into the Municipal Court of Atlanta bench in May by Mayor Kasim Reed as the newest and youngest member of the bench. Butler is the only UF Law alumna on the court.

Hollie Croft, associate of Broad and Cassel, has earned a Martindale-Hubbell AV Preeminent rating for competency and ethics in the field. The honor is based on peer reviews and recommendations

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and reflects her work with for-profit and nonprofit developers of multi-family housing for low-income families and seniors. She is also a member of the firm’s affordable housing and tax credit practice group, The Florida Bar and serves on the Orlando Best Buddies advisory board.

Justin S. Flippen has been elected a city commissioner of Wilton Manors. He has become a director of the Broward League of Cities, a project manager for the Greater Fort Lauderdale Convention and Visitors Bureau and has been reappointed to a second term on the VISITFLORIDA Cultural, Heritage, Rural, and Nature Committee. His civil rights seminar paper “Where Lawrence Leaves Us” was displayed as part of a marriage equality and LGBT civil rights exhibit by the Stonewall National Museum & Archives.

Travis Hayes, a partner at Cummings & Lockwood LLC, has been appointed vice chair of the Probate Rules Committee for The Florida Bar. Hayes was also recently selected as the “At-Large Member of the Year” by the real property probate and trust law section of The Florida Bar, elected a director on the board of directors for the Collier County Bar Association and named one of the “Top 40 Under 40” trust and estates attorneys in Florida.

William T. Link Jr. has become a partner at Reed & Mawhinney, P.L., now known as Reed, Mawhinney & Link, PLLC. Link has more than 11 years of experience and focuses his practice on real estate and business transactions.

Laura Minton-Young, board-certified real estate attorney, has been elected a shareholder in Dean, Mead, Egerton, Bloodworth, Capouano & Bozarth, P.A. She represents individuals, businesses and banks in various aspects of commercial and residential real estate and financing from the Viera, Florida office.

Anna Shea released her children’s book Bradford the Camping Kangaroo: Meets the Florida Gators in September. The book was co-written with her sister Christie.

Daniel Weidenbruch has joined FisherBroyles LLP, the nation’s first cloud-based law firm, as it expands into Florida and Ohio. Weidenbruch is one of Gulfshore Business magazine’s “40 Under 40,” in recognition of his real estate practice.

2005Jill Bechtold, of Marks Gray, P.A., has been appointed by the office of the mayor as a board member of the Jacksonville Children’s Commission. She is one of 11 board members who will serve a four-year term investing in the community’s children for a prosperous future. Bechtold practices civil litigation and received a Martindale-Hubbell AV Preeminent rating and “Rising Star” designation for her ethical and legal accomplishments.

Christopher Carmody Jr., shareholder in GrayRobinson’s Orlando office, was elected vice chair of the 9th Circuit Judicial Nominating Commission for the July 2015-2016 term. The commission recommends qualified candidates to serve as circuit or county judges and determines which applications will be forwarded to the governor for appointment consideration.

A. Felipe Guerrero, has been elected as a shareholder in Dean, Mead, Egerton, Bloodworth, Capouano & Bozarth, P.A. He practices commercial and real estate litigation, including contract and business disputes, commercial foreclosures and enforcement of creditors rights. He is also the past president of the Hispanic Bar Association of Central Florida.

John Hemenway, of Bivins & Hemenway in Valrico, was named a 2015 Florida “Rising Star” by Super Lawyers.

Erin Houck-Toll (LLMT), a stockholder in the Business & Tax Division of Henderson, Franklin, Starnes & Holt, P.A., has become Florida board certified in health law. She is one of three attorneys in the state of Florida to receive dual certifications in health and tax law. Houck-Toll was also recently named a “Rising Star” for her work in business and corporate law, and she serves on the executive council for the tax section of The Florida Bar, and on the board of directors for Empowerment of Alliance of Southwest Florida, Inc. and Special Equestrians, Inc.

Heather Macre, an associate attorney at Aiken Schenk, has been elected a shareholder in the firm. Macre has been named a “Rising Star” twice and has achieved professional distinction in bankruptcy law, health care law and commercial litigation.

2006 Steven Burres, of Rotech Healthcare Inc., has been promoted to associate general counsel, following a position of assistant general counsel that he held since January 2014. Rotech Healthcare Inc. is a national durable medical equipment company, headquartered in Orlando.

Jason A. Davis, partner with ShuffieldLowman, was named president of the Habitat for Humanity Lake-Sumter Foundation that has provided housing for more than 200 local families since opening in 1989. Davis is head of ShuffieldLowman’s Lake County office where he practices estate planning, mergers and acquisitions, corporate formations and business succession planning. He also serves on the Cornerstone Hospice Foundation board.

Kelly Davis, an attorney of Quarles & Brady LLP, has been appointed a member of the St. Matthew’s House, Inc. board of trustees where she will help the organization provide a wide range of programs to vulnerable members of the community. She currently practices labor and employment law.

Gregory M. Lefkowitz has been promoted to partner at Duane Morris and continues to practice in the firm’s Boca Raton office. Lefkowitz practices in all areas of intellectual property law, with a focus on patent prosecution and litigation.

Eviana J. Martin, of Martin Law Firm PL, received a Martindale-Hubbell AV Peer Review Rating. The “AV” rating reflects high professional ethics and preeminent legal ability based on the anonymous opinions of members of the bar and the judiciary.

Steven E. Martin, managing member of Martin Law Firm PL, received a Martindale-Hubbell AV Peer Review Rating. The “AV” rating reflects high professional ethics and preeminent legal ability based on the anonymous opinions of members of the bar and the judiciary.

Amanda Perry, an associate in the Orlando office of Baker Donelson, has been elected to serve a one-year term as president-elect of the Central Florida Association for Women Lawyers. The association promotes advancement and recognition of women in the legal profession and the expansion of their impact on the community at large.

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Jonathan D. Wallace has been elected a shareholder in Dean, Mead, Egerton, Bloodworth, Capouano & Bozarth, P.A. He has experience counseling in acquisition, disposition, development and financing, and he is proficient in a wide variety of property-related matters through his frequent representation of real estate professionals.

2007Yekaterina Mesic was selected as a member of the Florida Association for Women Lawyers’ 2015 Class of Leaders in the Law. Mesic received the award as a member of the Jacksonville Women Lawyers Association and was honored at The Florida Bar’s annual convention. In its selection, the association looked for women who have made meaningful contributions in their communities through legal service or volunteer work.

Anastasia Protopapadakis, shareholder in GrayRobinson’s Miami office, has been selected as part of Leadership Broward’s Class XXXIV. Leadership Broward is a leadership development program for adults who hold leadership positions and are actively involved in their communities.

2008Adam Bird has become a shareholder in GrayRobinson. He practices general litigation primarily in maritime, insurance, real estate and contract cases.

Brian Cross has been named managing partner of Goede, Adamczyk, DeBoest & Cross, PLLC. He practices business litigation, construction litigation, real estate litigation and general commercial litigation and hopes to represent Southwest Florida’s businesses, residents and visitors.

Madelin D’Arce, of Goede, Adamczyk, DeBoest & Cross, PLLC, was recognized as a “leader in the law” of the Florida Association for Women Lawyers’ 2015 class. D’Arce has experience in areas of business, contracts and real estate disputes, but her main areas of practice at the firm are litigation, community association law and real estate law.

Aaron P. Davis, co-founder of Thornton, Davis & Fein, P.A., was one of six attorneys selected to the American Bar Association’s tort trial and insurance practice section “TIPS NOW!” fellowship that provides leadership opportunities for young lawyers. Davis was also named a 2015 Florida “Rising Star.”

Brian Malec (LLMT, JD 07), of the Dean, Mead, Egerton, Bloodworth, Capouano & Bozarth, P.A Orlando office, has been elected a shareholder in the firm. Board certified in wills, trusts and estates, he handles all aspects of estate and succession planning, as well as probate and trust administration.

Dorothy M. Russ has been recognized as a “Top 40 Under 40” lawyer by the National Bar Association for her achievements, leadership and community involvement.

Anne K. Russell (LLMT) has joined Moore & Van Allen PLLC’s Charleston office of estate and wealth planning practice group as an associate. Russell reviews and drafts wills, trusts and powers of attorneys, as well as advises on estate and gift tax planning. She is an active member of the American Bar Association and speaks nationally at estate planning functions.

2009Andrew R. Comiter (LLMT, JD 08), an associate at Comiter, Singer, Baseman & Braun, LLP in

Palm Beach Gardens, has been accepted into the inaugural class of the Florida Fellows Institute of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel.

Scott Holtz, managing shareholder in Prestia Holtz, P.A. in Lake Worth, has been appointed to the zoning board of appeals for West Palm Beach.

Lee Johnsey, an associate in the Birmingham office of Balch & Bingham LLP, has been elected treasurer of the Alabama State Bar young lawyers section for 2015-2016 and to the American Bar Association House of Delegates.

Enita Kushi, of Kushi Law Firm, P.A., has received the Legal Aid Service of Collier County’s “Outstanding Pro Bono Service” award.

Julie Ledermann, vice president and assistant general counsel at J.P. Morgan in New York City, was named a 2015 “Chambers Women in Law Future Leader” (in-house) winner.

Kristina Mobley has been selected as Clay County Court’s newest judge by Florida Gov. Rick Scott. She fills a vacancy left by the retirement of Judge Richard Townsend.

Travis Mydock, assistant state attorney in St. Augustine, Florida, was appointed to the board of governors of The Florida Bar Young Lawyers Division. He was also appointed treasurer of the St. Johns County Bar Association.

David Torre has been appointed to the Central Florida Foundation’s board of directors. The foundation manages and invests charitable funds, gives advice to encourage informed decisions and connects others to initiatives that build the community.

Stephanie Varela, associate with Greenberg Traurig, P.A., has been elected to a three-year

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term on the Florida Supreme Court Historical Society’s board of trustees. Varela practices appellate law and trial support and was recently named a 2015 “Rising Star” by Florida Super Lawyers.

2010Dana Apfelbaum (LLMT, JD 09), of Dean, Mead, Minton & Zwenger, was a guest speaker at the 2015 Florida Agriculture Financial Management Conference in Orlando where she presented “Tax and Succession Planning for Agricultural Businesses,” with Brad Gould (JD 01).

Alyse Reiser Comiter, of Gunster’s West Palm Beach office, has been selected for the inaugural class of the Florida Fellows Institute. The institute aims to develop leaders in trust and estate law. She practices in all aspects of estate planning.

Zarra R. Elias has joined Akerman LLP in Tampa as an associate. She focuses her practice on labor and employment and commercial litigation.

Nicholas J. Grimaudo (LLMT, JD 09), an associate at Johnson, Pope, Bokor, Ruppel & Burns, LLP, has been accepted into the inaugural class of the Florida Fellows Institute of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel.

Alexandria Hill has become a senior associate in GrayRobinson’s Jacksonville office. She practices in the areas of commercial litigation, bankruptcy, general liability defense and corporate and business transactions.

Joseph Naberhaus, a litigation and civil trial attorney with GrayRobinson, has become a senior associate in its Melbourne office.

Jason Zimmerman, a member of GrayRobinson’s litigation practice, has become a senior associate in its Orlando office.

2011Amy D’Alessandro, assistant Florida state attorney for the 20th Judicial Circuit, has joined Aloia, Rolan & Lubell, PLLC as an associate. She will focus in the firm’s business litigation and real estate practice.

Susana Christina Garcia, of Greenspoon Marder Law, has joined the firm’s government relations group in its Orlando office. Garcia focuses on civil and commercial litigation and is an active member of both the Hispanic Bar Association and the Women’s Bar Association of the District of Columbia.

Christopher Andrew Roy, of Winderweedle, Haines, Ward & Woodman, P.A. was named a replace with Super Lawyers, Rising Star 2014-2015.

2012Charles R. Barrineau (LLMT) has joined Burr & Forman’s corporate and tax practice group. Barrineau works with individuals and a wide range of businesses on matters related to taxation, trusts, business formation and planning.

Jonathan Mann has joined ExamWorks, Inc. as assistant general counsel, corporate. He will advise the company on mergers and acquisitions and general corporate matters. Prior to joining ExamWorks, he was an associate in the Miami office of White & Case LLP.

2013Keith Fernandez, legal counsel at the U.S. House of Representatives, was published in the James Madison Institute’s spring journal. His piece, entitled “An Illusory Opening to Cuba: Why Florida Shouldn’t Walk through the Breach,” discusses the issue of Florida

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A P R E V I E W A N D L O O K B AC K on Florida’s Constitutional Revision Commissions brought some of the most influential figures in Florida politics to UF Law. Guests included former Florida Governors Kenneth H. “Buddy” MacKay (JD 61) and Bob Graham, former Florida Senate President James A. Scott and Jon Mills (JD 72), a former Florida House speaker and current UF Law professor. Also on the panel was UF Law Professor Mary Adkins (JD 91), whose book How the Spirit of Reform Shaped a New State Constitution, is due to be published next year. Panelists discussed the 1977-78 and 1997-98 commissions as well as critical issues for the 2017-18 commission. Participants also included former ABA President Martha Barnett (JD 73), Robert Brochin (JD 80), William “Clay” Henderson and Nathaniel Reed.

Florida Constitution: Past and future

doing business with Cuba. Fernandez was also recently published by Elite Daily for a piece on why millennials should get involved in politics.

Rachael Santana, of Lewis, Longman & Walker, has been elected to The Florida Bar environmental and land use law section executive council. The council educates the public on environmental and land law use. Santana practices in areas of water resources, environmental and land use issues.

2014Alicia Noelle Braker (LLMT) has joined ShuffieldLowman to practice in the areas of real estate planning and probate, tax law and planning for high-net-worth families and businesses.

Thomas D. Sims (LLMT), an associate at Johnson, Pope, Bokor, Ruppel & Burns, LLP, has been accepted into the inaugural class of the Florida Fellows Institute of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel.

Amanda Woods has joined Sheppard, White, Kachergus & DeMaggio, P.A. as an associate. Her practice focuses on criminal defense and civil rights.

2015Matthew J. Scheer (LLMT, JD 14), an associate in Gunster’s tax practice, was hired as an attorney in its West Palm Beach office. As an associate, he advises clients on federal income tax issues and counsels clients on how to maximize financial needs through structured transactions. He has worked with tax exempt organizations and has interned for a U.S. senator, a U.S. magistrate judge and the New York Yankees.

Michael G. Whittaker has joined McDonald Carano LLP as an associate attorney. He represents clients in aspects of estate planning, charitable planning, taxation law and trust and estate administration.

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IN MEMORIAM

O n Friday, April 24, 2015, this nation lost a hero. Judge George Cressler Young (JD 40), senior

judge of the United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida, was a giant on the bench, in the legal profession and in his community. He dedicated his life to service in all three branches of the federal government: in the executive branch as a member of the armed services, in the legislative branch on the staff of U.S. Sen. George Smathers and in the judicial branch as a U.S. district judge.

Judge Young was considered a “judge’s judge” by the judiciary and was not simply respected; he was revered. He fought for justice in controversial cases, including one involving school desegregation, risking physical violence and social ostracism.

As chief judge, he led the Middle District of Florida from 1973 to 1981, but he served as its leader for much longer than that. Because of his expertise, he was often sought after by newer members of the bench for his sage advice. Even in his later years as a senior judge when he no longer handled cases, Judge Young remained involved in court management and judicial affairs, attending judges’ meetings and court functions whenever he could, well into his 90s. From time to time, you’ll hear folks question the wisdom of lifetime appointments for federal judges. No one will ever raise Judge George Young’s name to support that argument, for his judicial service truly lasted a lifetime.

Judge Young was a courageous judge. He presided over a very controversial school desegregation case in what was then still in many ways the Deep South. And for that service, he received death threats and his family members drew trouble. But that did not deter him. He knew his duty and he did it, despite the danger to himself and the social discomfort it caused him and his family. In my book, that makes him among the greatest of the Greatest Generation.

The entire federal court complex in Orlando bears Judge Young’s name, and the Orlando Chapter of The American Inns of Court renamed their organization as The George C. Young First Central Florida American Inn of Court.

His colleagues’ anecdotes and his accomplishments reflect the high esteem in which the community held Judge Young. It didn’t just respect him, but loved him. He will be missed but the mark he has made will never be forgotten.

—Excerpted from the Florida Law Review, In Memoriam, 67 Florida Law Review vi–viii (2015). Anne C. Conway is a United States District Judge for the Middle District of Florida

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A respected lawyer, U.S. Army soldier, civic leader and friend of the UF Law community, Fred W.

Leonhardt died Oct. 10 after suffering a heart attack. He will be remembered as a trustee emeritus of the UF Levin College of Law, a leader in the legal community, a dedicated lobbyist and friend to many.

Leonhardt grew up in Daytona Beach before moving to Gainesville where he earned his UF bachelor’s and UF Law degrees. After graduating in 1974, he began his legal career in Tallahassee as counsel to the Democratic House speaker in the Florida House of Representatives.

He served in the U.S. Army Reserve before joining Cobb, Cole and Bell in 1975 as partner and Leonhardt & Upchurch in 1979 as president. While practicing, he served as president of the Daytona Beach Chamber of Commerce where he worked to expand the chamber’s focus beyond tourism.

During the 1980s, Leonhardt left Daytona for Orlando to join the Holland & Knight law firm where he headed the real estate and environmental and land use law practice areas and eventually became partner. He was selected chairman of the greater Orlando Chamber of Commerce where he helped to found Compact, the chamber’s program to match students with mentors in business communities to prevent school dropouts.

In 1997, he became a shareholder in GrayRobinson, focusing on government relations, where he continued to practice until the end of his career. As one of his firm’s top lobbyists, Leonhardt raised large sums of money for Gov. Jeb Bush and President George W. Bush.

During his career, Leonhardt served as chairman of the American Bar Association’s state and local law section and as president of the Florida Chamber of Commerce. He was appointed to the board of directors of Enterprise Florida, the state’s economic development program, Space Florida, the James Madison Institute, Floridians for Better Transportation and the Metro Orlando Economic Development Commission.

He also helped to draft the Future Land Use element of the Orange County Comprehensive Plan that set a framework for local government planning.

Leonhardt was named to the UF Foundation Inc. board where he worked as a vital partner with UF to fundraise and manage gifts from private donors to support UF’s mission of teaching, research and service.

For his involvement in his firm, government and community organizations, he was named one of Orlando Business Journal’s most influential businessmen in 2004.

He is survived by wife Vicki Cook Leonhardt, daughter Ashley, son Whitaker and one granddaughter.

Fred W. Leonhardt: Friend to his community and UF Law

O n the bench, 5th District Court of Appeal Judge Jacqueline Rita Griffin had

a powerful voice, was a gifted writer and had a way of making complex issues easy to understand. Off the bench, she used that voice to save neglected animals, teach children and support her family.

Griffin was born into a Naval family on Dec. 15, 1946, in Chelsea, Massachusetts. Griffin and her younger sister Patti lived in eight different cities before graduating from high school in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. There, Griffin developed a love of Spanish and language in general.

She went on to study at the University of North Carolina-Greensboro where she received her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Spanish. After graduation, Griffin taught Spanish at Lyman High School in Seminole County where she was named Young Teacher of the Year for her dedication to her students.

After this teaching stint, Griffin changed directions and attended UF Law. While a student, she was named the second female editor of the Florida Law Review and went on to graduate with high honors in 1975.

She practiced in Orlando before Florida Gov. Bob Martinez appointed her to the 5th District Court of Appeal in 1990 where she was known for her no-nonsense attitude.

“She stood for something,” close friend Carol Ponton said. “She was the most ethical person you could ever know. She was there for you, but she would tell you what she thought – right or wrong.”

Family and friends remember her for her love of Spain and Spanish, Southern food, red wine, the Gator Nation, the law and animals. She regularly visited pet stores and tried to adopt out animals, often checking prospective families and home inspections to ensure the animals went to a fitting home. She also donated to animal causes for food, animal supplies and medical care.

Griffin died of uterine cancer on Sept. 10, 2015. She is survived by her mother Gladys Griffin and sister Patti Griffin.

The family asks that charitable contributions be made in her memory to the Florida Law Review Endowment Fund, P.O. Box 14412, Gainesville, FL 32604-4412; or Solomon’s Place, Inc., a tax-exempt animal-rescue fund, P.O. Box 9357, Daytona Beach, FL 32120-9357.

For alumni Deaths since April 2015 go to Web Extras at www.uflaw.ufl.edu/uflaw.

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Reubin Askew dedicated his life to public service. Born as the youngest of six children, he “came from a fam-ily of very modest means – which is a nice way of saying poor,” as he’d ex-press it. He entered

the Army after high school and served in the U.S. paratroopers until he was discharged at the rank of sergeant. After earning a degree in public administration from Florida State University, he entered the Air Force as a second lieutenant. He served in Europe and returned to study at UF Law, where he was president of his law school class and execu-tive editor of the Florida Law Review. After

graduating in 1956, he continued in the Air Force Reserve and rose to the rank of captain.

Askew’s public service began immedi-ately after entering the bar as prosecuting attorney in Escambia County, where his suc-cess led to his election to the Florida House in 1958 and the Florida Senate in 1962. He served 12 years in the Florida Legislature be-fore serving two successive four-year terms as governor of Florida. His years as governor often have been described as years of reform and successful transition for Florida and are noted by the initiation of corporate income tax, racial integration of state institutions and proposition of the “Sunshine Amendment,” which resulted in a more open government. A study prepared by George Weeks at Har-vard University named Askew as one of the 10 greatest American governors of the 20th century.

During his career, Askew also served as keynote speaker at the Democratic National Convention, was appointed the United States Trade Representative by President Jimmy Carter, functioning as the president’s princi-pal adviser and the nation’s principal spokes-man on international trade, and practiced law in Miami.

Mike Gold, the husband of Roberta Fulton Fox, chuckled when he described his wife’s run for the Florida House in 1976. A state leg-islator had made misogynistic com-ments on the floor of the House, so Fox

Heritage ofLeadershipAs catalysts for change and civic commitment, three graduates were posthumously honored by UF Law. Reubin O’D. Askew (JD 56), Roberta Fulton Fox (JD 67) and S. Austin Peele (JD 63) are the newest inductees into UF Law’s Heritage of Leadership. They embodied diligence in the face of adversity, and dedication to clients and the legal profession itself. In September, UF Law celebrated their livesand work in front of noted alumni, students and inductees’ families.

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did something about it. She won the seat and went on to be re-elected twice in the House before being elected to the Florida Senate.

“She was a pioneer for women in the field at a time when they weren’t taken seri-ously,” Gold said.

During her career, Fox was a powerful advocate for gender equality. She gradu-ated as one of only eight women in her law school class and started her career with Legal Services in Miami where she targeted issues affecting the elderly. After this stint opened her eyes to social inequalities, she went on to open the Law Offices of Gold & Fox PA with her husband, to serve as the only female on the governor’s commission on marriage and family, to work on the Clemency Review Board, to fight for abortion rights and to campaign for pay equality as a member of the National Organization for Women.

During her 10 years in Legislature, she was also instrumental in passing the Florida Equal Education Opportunity Act in 1984 that en-forced non-discrimination policies in the school systems, and she chaired the Florida Committee on Health and Rehabilitative Services.

Colleague Her-bert Darby de-scribed S. Austin Peele as an old-fashioned lawyer – one who could handle anything from small claims to Supreme Court matters. However, clients thought of Peele as much

more. He believed every person had a story to tell and wanted to give them the voice to do so. He found that by taking genuine interest in others, clients were willing to talk with him – not because of attorney-client relations, but as friends.

After receiving his J.D., Peele joined Jo-pling & Darby, which later became Darby & Peele, where he practiced for more than 48 years. While practicing, he stayed actively in-volved in the Lake City Bar, the 3rd Circuit Bar and Columbia County church and civic organizations. He was a valuable member of The Florida Bar and also served on the Des-

ignation Coordination Committee that led to the establishment of the Florida Board Certi-fication Plan.

***Peele, Fox and Askew join 37 others in

the Heritage of Leadership Recognition So-ciety, representing illustrious personalities in the history of UF Law since its founding in 1909. Members assumed national leadership positions and distinguished themselves in the legal, governmental, academic and corporate sectors. They labored to improve the admin-istration of justice and received the high-est commendations for contributions to the profession and service to educational, civic, charitable and cultural causes. Their images and a summary of their most significant ac-complishments are etched into a glass display on the second floor of Holland Hall.

Members of the Heritage of Leader-ship Recognition Society are selected by the Heritage of Leadership Committee, which presents the slate for discussion and approval to the full membership of the University of Florida Law Center Association, Inc. board of trustees.

Five Oceans, One Earth

Highlights Include: National experts in marine science and policy • Climate control roundtable • Florida Bar /Environmental Law Institute Gulf of Mexico restoration

Panel

• Ocean and near shore aquaculture• The high seas & living marine resources• Coastal community resiliency• Oceanic pollution• Endangered marine species• Port expansion and the St. Johns River• Offshore drilling• Caribbean coral reefs

Keynote Speakers

• David Guggenheim, Ocean Explorer and Educator Founder & President, Ocean Doctor

• Ian Urbina, The New York Times writer Author of Outlaw Oceans, a highly acclaimed series

on sea lawlessness

CLE Credit Opportunity

• Number of credits pending

Learn more and register at:

ufpiec.org

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W E L L I T C E RTA I N LY H AS B E E N A B USY YE A R at the University of Florida with many “New Beginnings,” including: new president, Dr. W. Kent Fuchs; new head football coach, Coach Jim McElwain; new basketball coach, Coach Mike White; and of most importance to us at the law school, our new dean, Laura A. Rosenbury. There is much excitement across the campus regarding all of these changes.

Here at the law school, we also wish to thank our interim dean, George Dawson, for providing a steady hand at the helm as we navigated uncharted waters for the law school over the last year while the search for Dean Rosenbury unfolded. During that time period I am pleased to report that the Levin College of Law at the University of Florida was once again recognized as the premier law school in the state of Florida per the U.S. News & World Report rankings with nationally ranked LL.M. programs in tax and environmental law. Most recently, UF Law was also ranked the No. 1 school in the nation (ahead of Yale, Stanford, UC Berkeley and Harvard, just to name a few) as the best law school for networking in America by GraduatePrograms.com.

Our Annual Fund contributions remain at record levels with more than $887,225 raised this past year. In addition, alumni participation increased to almost 8 percent (clearly plenty of room for improvement) this year. It is due to the generosity of dedicated alumni and friends that our law school has continued to thrive despite significant reductions in public funding. On behalf of the college of law and alumni everywhere, I cannot thank you enough.

The Graduate Tax Program benefitted from the 2nd Florida Tax Institute, which was held this past April in Tampa. This program received rave reviews and successfully raised $50,000 for the Graduate Tax Program. Please plan to join us next year for this annual program which will be held in Tampa on March 30-April 1, 2016.

As we embark on the coming year under Dean Rosenbury’s leadership, our first priority will be to introduce the dean to the Gator Nation and to build upon the foundation and continue to improve the quality of education, reputation and stature of the college of law. Events will be scheduled around the state, so please plan to join us at one near you.

I encourage you to join your fellow alumni of the College of Law and its LL.M. programs by contributing to the Annual Fund or one of the many other giving opportunities. We have kind, helpful people waiting to hear from you!

In keeping with the theme of New Beginnings, I will step down this fall as chair of the LCA and we will welcome Oscar Sanchez as the new chair. It has been my pleasure and privilege to serve these last two years and I believe the law school and the university are in good hands.

I thank you for your continued service to and support of the Levin College of Law.

MICHAEL D. MINTON (JD 81, LLMT 82)Chair, Law Center Association

T H I S I S A N E XC I T I N G

T I M E for the University of Florida College of Law as we welcome our new dean, Laura A. Rosenbury, and a new group of bright, talented students, who in several years will join our alumni ranks.

Thank you for your contributions to the UF Levin College of Law – both financially and with your time. Our incredibly strong base of proud and dedicated alumni have helped elevate our college and allow it to continue as one of the top public law schools in the country.

This year, the College of Law raised more than $887,000 for its Annual Fund through contributions from generous alumni and friends, resulting in the highest annual cumulative total in the history of our college. Your generosity has helped provide UF Law students with prominent faculty, modern facilities and the greatest learning environment inside and outside the classroom that our college has ever offered. Your gifts to the Annual Fund impact the college’s rankings, influence faculty and student recruitment and help fund important programs, activities and services for students and alumni.

Your generosity and leadership help the UF College of Law to continue to attract the brightest students from Florida and from across the country. In addition, your support is essential to guaranteeing that UF Law students have the best educational opportunities possible, and, importantly, to ensuring a smooth transition to the legal profession after their graduation.

I would like to close by thanking Interim Dean George Dawson, who delayed his retirement for a year in order to lead our college during this transitional period, and the outstanding staff of the Development and Alumni Affairs office for their commitment to the UF College of Law.

Thank you again for your support, and Go Gators!

BRIAN D. BURGOON (JD 97), President, Law Alumni CouncilBRIAN D BURGOON (JD 97)

Thank you for your support.

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“I represented the mother of three

little boys. I helped her get her boys

back. What’s better than that? I didn’t

make a penny, but I went home that

night and slept very, very well.”

UF LAWBill Schifino (JD 85)

Florida Bar President-Elect; Partner, Burr & Forman LLP;

UF Law Center Association Trustee

I A M

G I F TS R EC E I V E D July 1, 2014, through June 30, 2015

Financial Report

New Pledges

2011-2015: Includes new documented

expectancies and new gifts for each fiscal year.

Total Cash Received

0

500,000

1,000,000

1,500,000

2,000,000

2,500,000

3,000,000

3,500,000

$1,8

64,2

02

$1,7

88,1

13

$2,8

31,5

70

2013 2014 2015

$3,

159,

262

$1,9

75,0

77

2011 2012

FISCAL YEAR

2011-2015: Represents all gifts from all sources

(including realized bequests) to the Levin College of

Law. State matching money has been excluded.

0

1,000,000

2,000,000

3,000,000

4,000,000

5,000,000

6,000,000

$2,3

61,0

37

$3,9

87,7

87

2011 2012$1

,731

,655

$499

,351

2013 2014

$1,5

92,6

62

2015

FISCAL YEAR

52 U F L A W

T H E U F F O U N DAT I O N I N V E ST M E N T C O R P O R AT I O N

( U F I CO ) C A R E F U L LY I N V E STS this fund to yield a dependable, stable source of income in perpetuity. Approximately 4 percent of earned interest from the market value of the fund was transferred and spent for uses specified by donors and college administrators for annual operating and administrative costs (earned interest above 4 percent is returned to the fund balance).

2011-2015: Contributions received to

nonendowed, nonbuilding funds.

0

200,000

400,000

600,000

800,000

1,000,000

$836

,461

$8

34

,05

3

$834

,053

$848

,389

$825

,845

$887

,225

2011 2012 2013 2014 2015

FISCAL YEAR

UF Law Annual Fund

Interest FY Fund Balance Transferred

2006 $67,250,539 $2,004,200

2007 $81,594,986 $2,512,741

2008 $83,571,816 $2,929,866

2009 $66,753,395 $2,746,444

2010 $72,624,762 $2,319,036

2011 $82,987,733 $2,434,991

2012 $81,852,018 $2,865,006

2013 $86,501,927 $2,902,053

2014 $97,125,469 $3,074,224

2015 $99,389,312 $3,010,141

UF LAW ENDOWMENT AT JUNE 30, 2015

Chairs & Professorships 32%

Unrestricted 29%

Scholarships 20%

Academic Program Support 10%

Co-Curricular Student 4% Activities

Endowed Lecture Series 2%

Other Student Support 2%

Other 1%

Grand Total: $99,389,313

32%

29%

20%

10%

4%2% 2%

1%

ENDOWMENT INCOME

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CHAIRS & PROFESSORSHIPS

David H. Levin Chair in Family Law

Lisa Levin Davidson Charitable Trust

Dennis A. Calfee Eminent Scholar

Chair in Federal Taxation

William A. & Laura M. BoylesPaul D. Fitzpatrick & Mary Jo BuckinghamJames L. & Emily P. GeorgeRobert J. & Jennifer LuckJohn J. & Lynn G. ScrogginGuy E. Whitesman & Ilene M. Whitesman

James J. Freeland Eminent Scholar

Chair in Federal Taxation

Colburn & Colburn Harry S. Colburn, Jr.

Richard B. Stephens Eminent Scholar

Chair in Federal Taxation

Colburn & Colburn Harry S. Colburn, Jr.

Richard E. Nelson Chair in

Local Government

Jane B. Nelson

Stephen A. Lind Eminent Scholar

Chair in Federal Taxation

Bruce R. & Bridget AbernethyBernie A. Barton, Jr.John C. & Leslie BovayDennis A. & Peggy M. CalfeeW. Michael & Linda D. CliffordComiter Singer Baseman & Braun Richard B. & Marilyn T. ComiterNathaniel L. & Debra L. DolinerHarry M. EisenbergAndrew J. & Melinda W. FawbushGassman Law Associates Gene K. & Elaine A. GlasserJames W. & Natalie A. GoodwinE. L. Roy HuntMary Kay KaneDonald S. & Marilynn KohlaDaniel J. & Beverly LathropeWilliam V. & Shirley F. LinneJames B. & Jingli C. O’NealLindy L. PaullDavid H. & Cheryl R. PeekWhitney L. & Carol SchmidtStephen SchwarzJohn J. & Lynn G. Scroggin

William G. & Michelle R. SmithHans G. & Deborah H. TanzlerKevin M. & Wendy B. YamamotoEllis & Donna C. Zahra

SCHOLARSHIPS

Bill McBride Public Interest

Practice Fellowship

Alfred B. & Joanna M. AdamsCharles W. & Carolyn F. ArnoldDonna Kay BergerKeith W. & Carolyn W. BricklemyerDonald K. & Jeanne E. DuffyDina S. FinkelPeter T. & Karla D. KirkwoodRochelle LevinThomas G. & Wendy W. LongHowell W. & Cathi H. MeltonTracy A. Nichols & Gerald K. SanchezGodfrey P. & MaryAnn B. OakleyA. Summey Orr IIIRobert L. Rhodes, Jr.Lawrence E. & Cathy M. SellersAdelaide A. SinkJanet R. Studley & Robert P. TroutEli H. & Sue R. SubinRobert L. & Terri TankelThomas & LoCicero William D. Ward III & Sarah E. McIlrathJames D. WingCraig G. Wolfson

Central Florida Women’s

Leadership Scholars

Kaye CollieAnne C. ConwayLauren Y. DetzelMayanne A. DownsKaren L. Persis & John P. SheehanPamela O. & Charles T. PriceMarjorie Bekaert & Bryan M. ThomasCouncil & Patricia M. Wooten

E. Thom Rumberger Everglades

Fellowship

Mary Lyn BarleyJ. Richard Caldwell, Jr.Rumberger, Kirk & Caldwell

Jim and Sharon Theriac Florida

Opportunity Scholarship in Law

Robert H. & Lisa Jerry

Judge Ben Krentzman Scholarship

Elizabeth R. Krentzman

Judge Paul C. and Donna Huck

Federal Judicial Fellowship

Paul C. Huck

Judge Wm. Terrell Hodges Tuition

Scholarship

Arthur S. & Ann W. HardySheila L. Seig

Law School Faculty Scholarship

Edward N. Rauschkolb

Law School General Scholarship Fund

Bruce D. & Melissa B. AustinJoan F. & Dennis J. BeerMichael & Lynne S. CapeceMarion Jackson FoundationKaren K. Meyer-Buesing & Robert H. BuesingLisa S. Odom & Kenneth A. TomchinKenneth S. Piernik & Kimberly M. KleissEdward J. & Theresa A. RichardsonRodney W. & DeeDee C. SmithDeborah B. & J. Cameron Story IIIVictor M. & Millie SuarezAlexa L. TaylorStephen B. TimmerDavid H. Vickrey & Gary R. EnsanaGail I. Winson

Lewis “Lukie” Ansbacher

Memorial Scholarship

William H. & Susan M. AndrewsPhilip I. & Barbara L. Emmer

Martin Luther King, Jr. Scholarship

W. George & Enid Allen

Michael D. and Mary P. Minton

Scholarship in Law

Brian T. & Xan AndersonMichael D. & Mary P. Minton

Michael L. Seigel Criminal Justice

Fellowship Fund

Anonymous All Children’s Hospital Alberto R. & Debra D. AmirinSusann J. ApterBrian J. & Cary A. AungstDavid & Cheryl BacharachFletcher N. & Nancy T. BaldwinHurbert H. & Annette L. BarberOliver D. & Patricia D. BarksdaleRobert BelangerDavid M. BermanShirley BlattDawn R. BoboMaurice T. BoetgerYariv BraunerKaren C. BurkeDennis A. & Peggy M. CalfeeJonathan R. & Karen B. CohenStuart R. & Charna R. CohnCharles W. & Irina T. CollierM. Katherine & Henry M. Coxe IIITiffany L. CumminsDeborah E. CupplesJohn S. & Christine E. CurranJeffrey & Pamela K. DavisGeorge L. & Sally K. DawsonNathaniel L. & Debra L. DolinerJonathan M. EllenMichael L. & Sharna T. EpsteinMark A. Fenster & Trysh TravisAlyson C. Flournoy & John C. SchaibleLaura A. Fouraker-GardnerLindsey A. FrancoMichael K. & Jacqueline FrielKeith W. & Kelley W. FrohlichCourtney M. Gaughan

Alison E. & George A. GerencserScott & Donna K. GrayRachel E. InmanJerold H. & Tanya IsraelMichelle S. JacobsMark H. & Carol L. JaffeRobert H. & Lisa Jerry Jennifer M. & Timothy W. JonesWesley M. JonesRochelle KaganTerry L. Katz & Sylvia C. Shore-KatzChristine A. Klein & Mark W. ElyAmy R. KrischerJeffrey P. & Jamie Bayer KrischerElizabeth T. Lear & Andrea TosoliniLyrissa B. & Howard LidskyJoseph W. & Lucille A. LittleLawrence A. Lokken & Mae M. ClarkRobert J. & Jennifer LuckCharlene D. & Trevor S. LukePedro A. MalavetMarilyn MarksAmy R. MashburnGrayson McCouchMartin J. & Pamela S. McMahonJon L. & Beth B. MillsJason P. & Julie A. NanceAlan M. & Ellen S. NastirSusan W. NeeJonah S. NewmanWesley C. & Heather B. PageWilliam H. & Judith W. PageMark PogachefskyRobert E. & Maida PollockRonald M. & Susan ProssTeresa J. ReidAlan & Nancy ReinbergKaren W. ReismanLynette N. RingenbergLeonard L. Riskin & Catherine J. DammeScott Rosenberg & Darilyn MoyerStanley A. & Alice S. RosenthalElizabeth A. & Fred Rowe, Jr.Aaron S. Rubin & Susan R. BeckerSharon E. RushKatheryn K. Russell-BrownMyra L. SandermanBarry & Phyllis ScholnickHoward & Bernice SeigelJanet R. SerwintMindy ShossHelen L. SimonD. Daniel & Hannah W. SokolRobert W. & Colleen St. LawrenceBrad S. & Debra K. StaatsGary & Lisa TeblumSamuel C. & Barbara A. UllmanYasmin Z. VafaLauren L. ValienteThomas A. & Tatiana M. WatfordMorris Weinberg, Jr. & Rosemary E. ArmstrongSteven J. WillisMichael A. & Betty M. WolfDavid J. & Judith H. Zaritt

Professor Michael Gordon Scholarship

in Comparative Law

Jorge F. Ramirez

THE ENDOWED FUND provides a permanent foundation for

the college and provides ongoing support for important pro-

grams and activities. The donors recognized on these and the

following pages made a cash gift in the 2014-2015 fiscal year.

Thank you for your support

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“I’m not really a transaction per-

sonality. I don’t want to be in the

backroom with the door closed

doing contract review. I wanted to

be more social and I enjoy interact-

ing with clients and other attorneys.

That was a really hard realization for

me that I didn’t see in law school. I

thought, ‘Oh, everyone is out there,

first they go to a big firm and then

they go to the courtroom.’”

UF LAWI A M

Holly Miller (JD 07)Regional Vice President,

Government Healthcare Solutions Xerox State Healthcare, LLC;

UF Law Alumni Council Member

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Raymond W. and Catherine S. Royce

Law Scholarships

Raymond W. & Catherine S. Royce

Robert H. and Lisa Novak Jerry

Scholarship Fund

DuBose & Sallie M. AusleyScott C. Ilgenfritz & Margaret D. Mathews

Scott G. and Lisa V. Hawkins

Character and Leadership

Scott G. & Lisa V. Hawkins

Tampa Bay Women’s

Leadership Scholarship

Cynthia A. Holloway Margaret D. MathewsAndrea E. ZelmanJeanne T. Tate

Terrye Coggin Proctor

Memorial Scholarship

Kim O’Connor

W. D. Macdonald Prize

Katherine E. Macdonald

Warren M. Cason Florida

Opportunity Scholarship in Law

Bernie A. Barton, Jr.Michael L. & Yvette M. ChapmanDino A. DoyleWilliam R. & Sylvia H. LanePaul A. McDermott & Sasha A.

Lohn-McDermottMichael M. & Kristen B. MillsPatrick W. & Joanne M. SkeltonJoseph H. Varner

Campbell Thornal Moot Court

Kathy-Ann W. & Chris MarlinDwayne A. RobinsonBrian A. & Veronica T. Roof

Center for Race and Race Relations

Lecture Series Fund

W. George & Enid Allen

Claire M. Germain Legal

Research Instruction Fund

Claire M. Germain & Stuart M. Basefsky

Eugene Pettis Family BLSA

Academic Support Endowment

Eugene K. & Sheila L. Pettis

Florida Moot Court Endowment

Amanda P. BennisScott A. & Meghann Hoskinson BowmanAndrew C. d’AdeskyRobert W. Davis, Jr.Bradley John EllisElizabeth A. FaistRyan L. & Jhanna C. GilbertRobert C. & Susan J. GrahamJennifer Erin JonesSteven Douglas & Mary T. KnoxDaniel R. LazaroRandall W. & Hadley V. LeonardMatthew E. MoatsAmy F. OdomElizabeth S. Paulk-Reilly & William L. ReillyChristopher A. PavilonisJohn H. Rains IVJanice M. & Dale J. RickertDwayne A. RobinsonBradley M. & Denise H. SaxtonDylan R. SheaCeleste A. ThackerScott A. & Erica A. Underwood

Florida Water Law Endowment

Waldman, Trigoboff, Hildebrandt, Marx & Calnan

Glenn J. & Sheryl Waldman

Gene K. Glasser and Elaine Glasser Fund

Gene K. & Elaine A. GlasserSandra & Leon G. Gulden Private Foundation Russell H. & Karen H. KasperWilliam E. Rosenberg Foundation

Gerald T. Bennett Prosecutor/

Public Defender Training Program

The Florida BarThe Florida Bar Foundation

J. Doyle Tumbleson Memorial Endowment

Paul B. & Constance D. Hunter Charitable Foundation

James D. and Suzanne W. Camp Fund

James D. & Suzanne W. Camp

Law Review Endowment

Justin S. AlexJohn & Nancy C. AntoonDana M. & Nicolas A. ApfelbaumMartha W. & Richard R. Barnett, Sr.Ross E. BergerDavid L. Bilsker

Elizabeth A. BowersRobert J. & Alice H. BoylstonRobert J. BraxtonMalcolm B. & Virginia C. BurrisDennis A. & Peggy M. CalfeeStephen CarrMatthew T. ChristKelli N. ChurchWilliam T. CochranKendall B. Coffey &

Joni B. Armstrong-CoffeyAnne C. ConwayDavid M. CraneDeborah E. CupplesAndrew K. DaechselDorothy V. DiFioreCharles T. Douglas, Jr.Kelly G. DunbergDunwoody White & Landon Donald A. & Gene S. DvornikMarta F. & Daniel J. ElfenbeinGuy S. & Annette L. EmerichKerry I. & Elizabeth K. EvanderLadd H. & Renee M. FassettChristina L. & Harris J. FaubelDyanne E. Feinberg & Tim D. HenkelRonald L. & Marcia C. FickAllison FischmanNathan A. & Laura B. FrazierMichael K. FreedmanBetsy Ellwanger GallagherJonathan D. & Tracy L. GerberAlan M. & Elizabeth D. GerlachJohn M. & Andrea X. GilliesJoyce K. GlicksbergDaniel E. GonzalezBryan S. & Barbara GowdyAdam D. GriffinDennis C. GucciardoGunsterAmy L. HannaAndres C. HealyMarc B. HernandezHill & Ponton Brian D. Hill & Carol J. PontonMatthew D. & Sara K. HillHarold D. Holder IIIMark L. & Susan J. HorwitzPatrick O. & Jessica Sommer JacksonJeffrey A. JacobsCassidy E. & Matthew D. JonesJennifer Erin JonesJohn H. JonesBryan W. & Dawn C. KeeneKimberly KeravuoriKathryn Anne KimballRussell & Shannon KooninJennifer LadaMarisol E. & E. A. Lauerman IIISuh K. LeeChauncey W. & Martha Z. LeverRobert B. LingleDonna C. LitmanMartha A. LottRobert J. & Jennifer LuckStephen E. LudoviciSara R. LuiDavid R. & Nicole K. MaassAlison L. MadduxJonathan L. MannFrank M. MariGiannina Marin & Lawrence E. PecanMaureen M. & Gerald G. MathesonDustin M. & Megan W. Mauser-ClaassenRyan J. McConnellStephen A. & Molly L. McCullersMcKee/Crawford R2

Charitable FoundationKristen M. McKinneySteven D. & Mary U. MerrydayM. Scotland & Margaret K. MorrisMotivActionKatherine A. MoumSoma I. NwokoloBrian M. & Joan B. O’Connell

Paul E. PakidisFrancis E. Pierce IV & Erica A. ErnstJordan E. & Christine K. PrattJames G. & P. Kristy PresslyMatthew H. PriceJohn H. Rains IVKristen RasmussenTiffany C. & Jeremy J. RaushPatricia L. ReidLaura B. RenstromHarley E. & Posey C. RiedelDwayne A. RobinsonLouis K. & Denise D. RosenbloumMatthew L. & Nancy K. RosinSelden R. RossPaul S. Rothstein & Suzy ColvinRebekah R. RunyonSonja W. SahlstenEdward O. & Rebecca B. SavitzLindsay M. SaxeGustav L. Schmidt & Erin M. SwickDarren SchweigerShara K. ScottlandLawrence E. & Cathy M. SellersRobyn A. & Gary B. SheltonRobert D. SowellMarla SpectorPatrick W. SpookBrian J. & Elizabeth T. StackRebecca M. StorkJeffrey M. & Lisa S. TaylorSamantha D. E. TuckerDane R. & Elizabeth B. UllianGeorge A. & Shaun VakaStephanie L. VarelaRichard G. & Laurie B. WackNatasha L. WaglowBill WagnerE. John Wagner &

Rosetta F. Barrett-WagnerMark E. & Karen D. WalkerCharlotte L. Warren-Williams &

Sean Timothy WilliamsWilliam A. & Kathleen M. WeberChristopher C. & Lisa P. WeegAmy M. WesselMonica L. WilsonGwynne A. YoungYekaterina V. Zhukova

LLM Tax Law Programs Endowment Fund

Scott A. & Meghann Hoskinson BowmanThe Deaver Phoenix Foundation Joseph M. DepewEllen Bellet GelbergJames M. & Susan L. RepettiStein/Gelberg Foundation Arik G. Turner & Marcie L. LaBrakeJoseph R. Worst

Professor Emeritus Mandell Glicksberg

Endowed Book Award in Property,

established by Andrew C. Hall &

James A. Hauser

Alison E. & George A. Gerencser

Peter T. Fay Jurist-In-Residence Program

Dean C. ColsonPeter T. & Pat FayJonathan D. & Tracy L. GerberMichael A. & Betty M. Wolf

Richard H. Simons Charitable Trust Book

Award in Taxation of Gratuitous Transfers

Robert M. & Judith S. R. KramerRichard H. Simons Charitable Trust

Richard L. Kuersteiner Endowment

Richard L. & Barbara L. Kuersteiner

Robert B. Cole Health Law Endowment

Richard P. Cole

Walter Weyrauch Distinguished

Lecture Series in Family Law

Leon B. & Barbara CheekStuart N. Hopen

The Honor Roll includes the names of all donors to the UF Levin College of Law from July 1, 2014 to June 30, 2015. If your name is not included and you think it should be, one of the following may be the reason it is not: • The gift was made before July 1, 2014 or after June 30, 2015.• You made a pledge instead of a gift. Only actual pledge payments

made between July 1, 2014 and June 30, 2015 are listed.• A personal gift was made through your firm or another

organization. In this case, look for your firm or the organization’s name in the Honor Roll.

• We made a mistake. Despite our best efforts, errors and omissions occur. If so, please accept our apologies and notify the Office of Development & Alumni Affairs at 352-273-0640 or development@law.ufl.edu.

For more information on making an endowed or estate gift, please contact the Office of Development & Alumni Affairs at 352-273-0640 or development@law.ufl.edu.

Honor Roll

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BEAT THE BULLDOGS

UF LAW ALUMNI RECEPTION

OCTOBER 28, 2014

Firm Sponsors

Bedell, Dittmar, DeVault, Pillans & Coxe, P.A.

Smith, Gambrell & Russell, LLPHolland & Knight

Longevity Individual Sponsor

Doug J. Milne

Individual Sponsors

Charles E. Commander IIIW.C. Gentry

BUILDING THE GATOR

LAWYER, ONE STEP AT

A TIME WASHINGTON, D.C.,

UF LAW ALUMNI RECEPTION

FEBRUARY 24, 2015

Firm Sponsors

Norton Rose Fulbright US LLP

CLASS OF 2004

UF LAW ALUMNI REUNION

FEBRUARY 27, 2015

Individual Sponsors

Eyal BergerCanaan HimmelbaumAshley Sawyer

FLORIDA TAX INSTITUTE

UF LAW ALUMNI RECEPTION

APRIL 23, 2015

Individual Sponsors Leslie J. BarnettSamuel UllmanA. Brian Phillips, P.A.

Law Firm Sponsors

Carlton Field Jorden Burt Comiter, Singer, Baseman

& Braun, LLPDean MeadHolland & KnightJohnson, Pope, Bokor, et al.Jones, Foster, Johnston &

Stubbs, P.A.Nostro Jones, P.A.Salter-FieberScroggin & Company, P.C.Tescher & Associates, P.A.UF Graduate Tax Program

TALLAHASSEE UF LAW

ALUMNI RECEPTION

MAY 13, 2015

Individual Sponsors Cindy O’Connell

WASHINGTON, D.C., UF LAW

ALUMNI RECEPTION

JUNE 16, 2015

Individual Sponsors Martha Cochran Hap Shashy Bruce HoffmanJames DenvirJanet Studley

FLORIDA BAR ANNUAL

CONVENTION UF LAW

ALUMNI RECEPTION

JUNE 25, 2015

Longevity Individual Sponsors

Mayanne DownsJack Harkness Joseph C. Mellichamp III William J. Schifino, Jr.Cathy & Larry SellersRobert H. ThornburgGwynne A. Young

Longevity Law Firm Sponsors

Feldman Gale, P.A.Haliczer Pettis & Schwamm, P.A.

Individual Sponsors

Theodore DeckertBetsy Ellwanger GallagherW.C. GentryCorinne C. HodakJ. Grier Pressly IIIGary Lee PrintyOscar A. SanchezGlenn J. Waldman

Firm Sponsors

Bedell, Dittmar, DeVault, Pillans & Coxe, P.A.

Boies, Schiller & Flexner LLPDean, Mead, Egerton,

Bloodworth, Capouano & Bozarth, P.A.

Jones, Foster, Johnston & Stubbs, P.A.

Alumni Receptions Opportunities for alumni to connect with one another and the college.

AnonymousLeslie J. & Hope C. BarnettMichael A. BedkeJean A. BiceJohn C. & Tifi BierleySusan H. & Louis E. Black IIIBruce H. & Joanne K. BokorDavid E. & Mollie M. BowersStephen J. & Sharon J. BozarthJames D. & Suzanne W. CampJohn W. & Mona P. CampbellMartha L. CochranCharles E. & Victoria C.

CommanderJames F. Conner IIChristopher E. CosdenPhilip A. & Phyllis S. DeLaneyDebra A. DohertySally A. DornAubrey H. Ducker, Jr. &

Laurie K. WeatherfordAndrew J. & Melinda W. FawbushCharlene FrancisBetsy Ellwanger GallagherGene K. & Elaine A. GlasserHarold A. GokeyRansom GriffinRobert E. & Gene S. GunnAndrew C. Hall & Gail S. MeyersStumpy & Ruthie L. HarrisJohn H. HaswellEdith E. Holiday &

Terrance B. AdamsonPaul C. HuckDavid M. Hudson & J. Parker

Ailstock Elizabeth A. Jenkins &

Charles E. HudsonRobert H. & Lisa JerryCharles H. & Linda T. JohnsonRichard A. Johnston, Jr.Jeffery Q. JonasenBecky Powhatan & Mark KelleyPeter T. & Karla D. KirkwoodDavid T. & Carla C. KnightRoger C. & Ellen J. LambertFredric G. Levin

Virginia A. LiptonHarlan E. MarkhamSteven E. & Eviana J. MartinJohn M. McNatt, Jr.Michael J. & Connie McNerneyRobert G. & Joelen K. MerkelMark W. & Susan B. MerrillCorneal B. & Dixie T. MyersLouis & Janet M. NostroBrian M. & Joan B. O’ConnellFrank A. OrlandoRobert A. & Caryl G. PierceJesse W. & Margo S. RigbyDavid L. Roth & Paula

Peterson-RothJ. Quinton RumphDavid C. & Ronna G. SasserClifford A. SchulmanRoger D. & Carol F. SchwenkeJohn J. & Lynn G. Scroggin T. Terrell Sessums, Sr.Jacqueline Allee SmithBetty H. SternRobert G. & Susan L. Stern Don Q. & Beverley W. ViningJohn K. & Marie L. VreelandA. Ward & Ruth S. WagnerSandra L. WarrenLawrence M. & Lynne WatsonArt & Mary E. WrobleStephen N. ZackAntonio R. ZamoraWilliam K. ZewadskiPeter W. & Cynthia G. Zinober

LEGACY SOCIETY

Timothy C. BlakeRobert Eugene GlennonBetty S. LaFaceEdward C. RoodRoger Dean SchwenkeRobert G. & Susan L. SternWilliam K. Zewadski

Bequest Society Recognizing those who have made a planned gift to the college.

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FOUNDERS SOCIETY -

PLATINUM

AnonymousAT&T James D. & Suzanne W. CampMarshall M. & Paula P. CriserJohn H. & Mary Lou D. DasburgLisa Levin Davidson Charitable TrustThe Florida BarEllen Bellet GelbergFredric G. LevinTeri LevinMartin Z. MarguliesJohn M. McNatt, Jr.National Center for Automated

Information ResearchJane B. NelsonJ. Quinton RumphLewis M. SchottThe Lewis Schott FoundationW. Kelly SmithStein/Gelberg Foundation Stephen N. Zack

FOUNDERS SOCIETY - GOLD

Charles W. & Betty Jo E. Abbott*Attorneys’ Title Insurance Fund Robert S. & Mildred M. Baynard TrustJohn C. & Tifi BierleyE. G. (Dan) Boone*David E. & Mollie M. Bowers*Carol M. Brewer & Andrew J. OgilvieCarlton Fields Jorden BurtJack G. ClarkeLuther W. & Blanche CogginCoker, Schickel, Sorenson & Posgay Richard P. ColeDaniel J. CollinDean MeadEdward & Julia B. DowneyThe Dunspaugh-Dalton Foundation Jessie Ball duPont FundEverglades FoundationChancellor Ray Ferrero, Jr.The Florida Bar FoundationMichael K. & Jacqueline Friel*Betsy Ellwanger GallagherW. C. Gentry Peter J. & Gina A. GenzGene K. & Elaine A. GlasserGrayRobinson William V. & Eva G. GrumanAndrew C. Hall & Gail S. MeyersScott G. & Lisa V. Hawkins

Inez A. HeathJustin HillenbrandWayne & Patricia R. HoganEdith E. Holiday & Terrance B. AdamsonHolland & Knight Charitable Foundation Holland & Knight Paul B. & Constance D. Hunter

Charitable Foundation Casey Johnson & Debra L. DonnerJustice Story Book ExchangeRobert G. KerriganThe Kresge FoundationRichard L. & Barbara L. KuersteinerLane, Trohn, Bertrand & Vreeland Levin & Papantonio Family FoundationStephen A. LindLawrence A. Lokken & Mae M. ClarkLake H. Lytal, Jr.John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation MacFarlane, Ferguson & McMullen Margaret MacLennanMichael C. & Diane MaherMcLin BurnsedRobert G. & Joelen K. MerkelMershon, Sawyer, Johnston Michael D. & Mary P. Minton*Montgomery Family Charitable TrustJohn B. & Ultima D. MorganMotley Rice James H. NanceBrian M. & Joan B. O’ConnellWhit & Diane F. PalmerLindy L. PaullDavid H. & Cheryl R. PeekF. Wallace & Christine R. PopeAllen L. Poucher, Jr. & Dianne L. LarsonBetty K. PoucherStephen Presser & Diane ArcherLynn B. ReevesJustus W. & Phyllis C. ReidStephen H. & Elizabeth Poucher ReynoldsDavid M. & Regina W. RichardsonMike M. & Linda L. RollysonWilliam E. Rosenberg FoundationGerald A. & Ingrid M. RosenthalRumberger, Kirk & Caldwell Saliwanchik, Lloyd & EisenschenkT. Terrell Sessums, Sr.Richard H. Simons Charitable TrustGerald & Phyllis C. SohnSteel, Hector & Davis Larry S. & Pat K. StewartSidney A. & Annette StubbsGlenn W. SturmCarl S. Swisher Foundation

The W. C. Gentry Family FoundationJames S. & Sharon L. TheriacRobert L. & Doris M. Trohn*Upchurch Watson White & Max Philip E. & Valerie B. Von BurgJeffrey W. & Susan P. Warren*Michael A. & Betty M. WolfSamuel J. & Evelyn Wood Foundation Yegelwel Family FoundationEvan J. & Arlene S. YegelwelC. Steven YerridZimmerman, Kiser & Sutcliffe

FOUNDERS SOCIETY - SILVER

C. Wayne & Kethryn AlfordAllen, Norton & BlueDuBose & Sallie M. AusleyDavid S. & Myrna L. BandBarnett, Bolt, Kirkwood, Long & McBrideSuzanne C. Bass TrustBedell, Dittmar, DeVault, Pillans & CoxeBilzin Sumberg Baena Price & Axelrod Bruce H. & Joanne K. BokorBill Bone*Broad & CasselBush Ross James D. Camp III TrustWilliam M. Camp TrustWalter G. & Lynn A. CampbellMartha L. CochranHoward C. CokerCommunity Foundation of Central Florida Hugh F. & Eliza CulverhouseCynthia G. Edelman Family FoundationMeredyth Anne Dasburg FoundationThe Deaver Phoenix Foundation George H. DeCarionDunwody, White & Landon Elizabeth Ordway Dunn Foundation Philip I. & Barbara L. EmmerLadd H. & Renee M. FassettFeldman Gale Jeffrey D. & Susan FeldmanFisher & Phillips Florida Tax Education Foundation The Florida Bar Tax SectionFonvielle, Lewis, Foote & MesserJames A. & Stacy S. GaleRobert E. Glennon, Jr.Joyce K. GlicksbergK. Lawrence & Maureen G. GraggSandra & Leon G. Gulden Private Foundation Marie C. Hansen TrustStumpy HarrisJames A. Hauser

Frederick A. Hazouri & Barbara J. ParienteHill, Ward & Henderson Paul C. HuckIcard, Merrill, Cullis, Timm, Furen & Ginsburg Elizabeth A. Jenkins & Charles E. HudsonKenneth R. & Kimberly Leach Johnson*Richard A. Johnston, Jr.Jones, Foster, Johnston & Stubbs .Paul T. & Sonia JonesHal H. KantorKerrigan, Estess, Rankin, McLeod &

Thompson Edward C. & Patricia G. KitchenEdward F. & Louise P. KorenRobert M. & Judith S. R. KramerKrome Realty Daniel J. & Beverly LathropePaul R. Linder & A. Michelle JerniganKevin A. & Jeannette M. MaloneDorothy S. McCurry TrustGene Moore IIIMorgan & Morgan Jon C. & Jean M. MoyleMark A. & Debra G. NoussA. Brian PhillipsKitty & Philip B. PhillipsJames G. & Katie S. PresslyMark J. ProctorJorge F. RamirezRichman Greer Richard M. & Gail M. RobinsonRaymond W. & Catherine S. RoyceJake & Carol B. SchickelClifford A. SchulmanBuddy & Mary Lou SchulzSearcy, Denney, Scarola, Barnhart & ShipleyErnest A. & Norma M. Sellers*Larry E. & Cathy M. SellersShutts & Bowen Benedict A. Silverman & Jayne E. BentzenAdelaide A. SinkMichael W. Smith & Jodi L. ScheurenbrandStearns, Weaver, Miller, Weissler, Alhadeff &

Sitterson Richard B. & Mary E. StephensHans G. & Deborah H. TanzlerTerrell Hogan Ellis Yegelwel John Thatcher

DISTINGUISHED DONORS are individuals, businesses

and organizations contributing at the following levels:

Founders Society, Dean’s Council, 1909 Society, Trusler

Society, Enrichment Society and Loyalty Society.

Names followed by an asterisk (*) are members of the 1909 Society, a diamond ( ) indicates life members of the Trusler Society and a star ( ) indicates Premium Charter Members of the UF Law Young Alumni Society. Due to space limitations and printing costs, Loyalty Society members are recognized in the online version of the Annual Report.

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“I travel the globe for clients so to

relax I run the married couples ministry

at my church. When I’m not travel-

ing the globe, I perform weddings

for couples after they complete their

counseling, which is 14 sessions. I’ve

been given a lot –UF gave me a great

start and I’ve been able to see the

world – so now I counsel and do

marriages to have fun that way.”

UF LAWI A M

Richard Smith (JD 87)Partner, Norton Rose Fulbright;

UF Law Center Association Trustee

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Samuel C. & Barbara A. UllmanUnited States Sugar Corporation George A. & Shaun VakaA. Ward & Ruth S. WagnerGlenn J. & Sheryl WaldmanCharles T. & Linda F. WellsScott L. & Lynda J. WhitakerWhite & Case Jill Carolyn WhiteJ. J. & Susan L. WickerWinderweedle, Haines, Ward, & Woodman Susan S. Winn

DEAN’S COUNCIL – BARRISTERS

Mary Lyn BarleyRichard B. & Marilyn T. ComiterJames W. & Natalie A. GoodwinGunsterJohn H. HaswellJohn Paul Stevens Fellowship Foundation Iain P. C. MoffatLouis & Janet M. NostroEugene K. & Sheila L. PettisDouglas A. & Patricia J. WrightGwynne A. Young

DEAN’S COUNCIL – PARTNERS

Michael A. & Honi V. Abbott*Bruce R. & Bridget AbernethyJ. Carter & Dana D. AndersenTimothy G. & Carole W. AndersonTimothy G. Anderson, Jr.Daniel H. & Joanne F. Aronson*Jerald David & Susan R. AugustAusley & McMullen Mark O. Bagnall & Maria I. Urbina-BagnallClaire M. & Stuart M. BasefskyS. C. Battaglia Family Foundation Michael A. & Rachelle D. BedkeStacy D. BlankScott G. Blews & Shelly Sharp-BlewsJeffery A. & Shirley L. Boone*Rebecca L. Brock & Jonathan T. Krone*Brian D. Burgoon*Dennis A. & Peggy M. CalfeeMark & Andrea H. CitrinClarke, Silverglate Attorneys at LawAlan B. & Lauren K. Cohn

Comiter Singer Baseman & Braun Terrence T. & Jeanne E. DariotisHeath K. Dedmondde la Parte & Gilbert Lauren Y. DetzelBenjamin F. & Christina I. Diamond*Mark P. & Beverly J. DikemanDLA Piper Thomas L. Edwards & Christine A. Farris-

EdwardsRobert S. EgermanRonald L. & Marcia C. FickFlorida Law GroupFoley & LardnerJohn N. & Ruth T. GiordanoGunn Law Group Lee D. & Tracy R. GunnJack O. & Mary O. Hackett II*Harper Meyer Perez Hagen O’Connor Albert

& Dribin Bruce M. & Medea D. Harris*Baya M. Harrison IIIR. Lawrence & Elizabeth E. HeinkelHicks, Porter, Ebenfeld & Stein Mark & Ann HicksHill & Ponton Brian D. Hill & Carol J. PontonMatthew D. & Sara K. HillD. Bruce & Trish A. HoffmanCynthia A. Holloway & C. Todd AlleyHopping, Green & Sams Scott C. Ilgenfritz & Margaret D. MathewsJames, Hoyer, Newcomer & SmiljanichMary Kay KaneKimberly K. KazimourBecky Powhatan & Mark Kelley*Stacy L. & David M. KenyonBradford D. KimbroAlan H. Landman*Ian R. & Robin L. LeavengoodLiles, Gavin & George Warren W. Lindsey & Eileen C. Forrester*Lott & Fischer Lowndes, Drosdick, Doster, Kantor & ReedR. Neal MannersBrian J. & Georgia McDonoughRobert W. Mead, Jr.*Kimbel L. MerlinWilliam F. Merlin, Jr.Julie C. Miller

Milton, Leach, Whitman, D’Andrea & Eslinger Jacquelyn E. MoorheadMurphy & Walker Wil MurphyT. Clay Phillips & Andrea E. ZelmanMatthew N. & Suzanne S. PosgayPamela O. & Charles T. PriceGary Lee & Suzanne G. Printy*James L. & Ann M. Purcell*John M. & Jennifer G. RawiczGerald F. & Gwen RichmanJesse W. & Margo S. RigbyRobert A. Rush Taylor K. & Manjiri S. Rose*Randolph J. & Sue S. Rush*Oscar A. Sanchez & Lida R.

Rodriguez-Taseff*Gerald D. & Joanne W. SchackowWilliam J. & Paola F. Schifino*Roger D. & Carol F. SchwenkeDavid M. & Rachel K. SeiferHap & Joy M. ShashyLewis E. & Linda L. Shelley*W. Crit & Dee Ann SmithLouis & Bessie Stein FoundationStichter, Riedel, Blain & Postler Mark T. & Jeanne T. Tate*Donald R. & Suann L. TescherLaura J. & Clarence L. Thacker*Thomas & LoCicero Robert H. & Ashley H. Thornburg*Timothy W. & Roslyn B. VolpeCasey WalkerWilliam A. & Kathleen M. WeberK. Taylor White

DEAN’S COUNCIL – ASSOCIATES

Anonymous T. W. & Margrette P. AckertMichelle Anchors & Stephen A. MedinaSidney F. AnsbacherLeslie J. & Hope C. BarnettR. Vinson & Carlene A. BarrettDavid L. BilskerRoger L. & Linda M. BlackburnJohn C. & Leslie BovayChristopher W. & Kristine S. BoyettMaria C. CarantzasMichael L. & Yvette M. ChapmanW. Michael & Linda D. CliffordGary J. CohenAnne C. ConwayR. Scott & Monica O. CostantinoCary Baxter & Kelly F. DavisTad & Jeri DavisGeorge L. & Sally K. DawsonPhilip A. & Phyllis S. DeLaneyNathaniel L. & Debra L. DolinerMayanne A. DownsJohn H. & Karen C. DyerHarry M. EisenbergFlorida Chapter of American

Board of Trial Advocates James C. & Mary K. FlemingGary D. & Robin C. FoxPatrick E. & Dena GeraghtyAlan M. & Elizabeth D. GerlachMatthew F. HallPhyllis P. & Raymond T. HarrisKevin E. HydeMarie HymanBradley R. & Gail H. JohnsonKeefe, Anchors & Gordon Lawrence & Lynn M. KeefePeter T. & Karla D. KirkwoodMark W. Klingensmith & Wendy H. WerbPeter M. MacNamara & M. Therese VentoDenise M. Martinez-Scanziani &

Paul J. ScanzianiMcKee/Crawford R2 Charitable FoundationFrederick J. & Karen F. Mills*Moore Family Foundation Brenna E. MoorheadC. Ryan & Kristin N. Morgan

Jon C. Moyle, Jr.Tracy A. Nichols & Gerald K. SanchezRobert P. O’LinnDarrell W. & Deborah J. PayneMark S. & Kathleen B. PetersRichard C. Pfenniger, Jr. & Gemma M. RoselloPhelps Dunbar J. Stephen & Marybeth PullumJames C. & Gloria M. Rinaman*Juan J. Rodriguez & Marvie Ann Garcia-

RodriguezJohn T. & Leah A. Rogerson*Todd & Julie RumbergerJohn J. & Lynn G. Scroggin Barry S. & Carole N. SinoffRichard C. & Sophia R. SmithMichael S. & Tammy W. TaaffeJoseph H. VarnerKelsey J. & Alan R. VeitengruberCharlotte L. Warren-Williams &

Sean Timothy WilliamsGuy E. Whitesman &

Ilene M. Safron-Whitesman Marc A. & Jennifer S. WitesEllis & Donna C. Zahra

TRUSLER SOCIETY

Herbert L. AllenW. George & Enid AllenRobert W. & Donna S. AnthonyDaniel K. ArmstrongCharles W. & Carolyn F. ArnoldRichard C. & Robin G. AusnessG. Thomas & Sharon E. BallBARBRI Bernie A. Barton, Jr.Salvatore & Lauren H. BochicchioBoies, Schiller & Flexner Bowen Radson Schroth William A. & Laura M. BoylesNorman Broad & Carol SalomonJ. Richard Caldwell, Jr.Campbell Law Firm Dennis M. & Deborah D. CampbellJohn W. & Mona P. Campbell*J. Thomas Cardwell & Kathy Amick-CardwellJ.P. & Lynn CarolanAllan P. & Martha F. ClarkStuart R. & Charna R. CohnKaye CollieDean C. ColsonSusan E. Cook & Drew S. Fine*Sarah CortvriendMary C. Crotty & Daniel S. LivingstoneRaul A. & Lynn CuervoNancy Jo DaleBarry R. & Paula M. DavidsonJeffrey & Pamela K. DavisTheodore A. & Marie B. Deckert*Paul E. & Stacey A. DeHartAndrew J. & Maureen N. DonelsonSally A. DornDunwoody White & Landon Elbert W. DuvallIrene DuvallMarta F. & Daniel J. ElfenbeinKenneth C. & Mary B. EllisAndrew J. & Melinda W. Fawbush*Peter T. & Pat FayWilliam H. Ferguson*Paul D. Fitzpatrick & Mary Jo BuckinghamAlyson C. Flournoy & John C. SchaibleJoseph E. & Connie B. FluetW. Ray & Jacquelyn FortnerRonald M. & Melissa GacheGassman Law Associates .Richard C. & Marjory E. GrantRaleigh W. & Beverly J. Greene*Stephen H. & Fay F. Grimes*Gregory S. & Gina M. HagopianDaniel B. & Kathy E. HarrellJohn C. Harvey & Kazie MetzgerBrett T. & Rhonda K. Hendee*B. Douglas Hind-Marsh

Donor Level DescriptionsFOUNDERS SOCIETY

PLATINUM Cumulative giving and five-year pledges of $500,000 and up

GOLD Cumulative giving and five-year pledges of $100,000 to $499,999

SILVER Cumulative giving and five-year pledges of $50,000 to $99,999

DEAN’S COUNCIL

BARRISTER Annual Gifts and five-year pledges of $25,000 to $49,999

PARTNER Annual Gifts and five-year pledges of $10,000 to $24,999

ASSOCIATE Annual Gifts and five-year pledges of $5,000 to $9,999

1909 SOCIETY

Annual Gifts of $2,000 and upSee description on page 62.

TRUSLER SOCIETY

Annual Gifts of $1,000 to $4,999

ENRICHMENT SOCIETY

Annual Gifts of $100 to $999

LOYALTY SOCIETY

Annual gifts of up to $99Loyalty Society members are recognized in the online version of the Annual Report.

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John L. Holcomb*Richard A. & Mary H. HorderSteve C. & Maxine S. HorowitzE. L. Roy Hunt*Gary W. & Mary E. Huston*Wilton B. & Amanda B. HymanRachel E. InmanThe Jelks Family Foundation Allen N. Jelks, Jr.Robert H. & Lisa Jerry* Johnson, Pope, Bokor, Ruppel, & Burns Thomas R. & Maritza A. Julin*JustGiveRandy Meg Kammer & Jeffry R. WollitzKaplan UniversityKimberly KeravuoriJay & Kyungmee KimChristine A. Klein & Mark W. ElySteven I. Klein*Donald S. & Marilynn KohlaBruce D. & Elizabeth C. LandrumK. Judith LaneJohn E. LeightonRochelle LevinLaird A. LileJoseph W. & Lucille A. Little*Thomas G. & Wendy W. LongDonna L. LonghouseRobert J. & Jennifer LuckMarion Jackson FoundationAmy R. MashburnArnold P. May & Allison K. MyersPaul A. McDermott &

Sasha A. Lohn-McDermottMartin J. & Pamela S. McMahonJoseph C. Mellichamp III & Barbara J. Staros*Steven D. & Mary U. MerrydayKaren K. Meyer-Buesing &

Robert H. BuesingCharles S. & Carol J. ModellJames S. & Kelli O. MoodyJames E. & Mari MoyePeter P. & Christina S. Murnaghan*National Philanthropic TrustWilliam C. & Joanna S. NijemJames B. & Jingli C. O’NealA. Summey Orr IIIWilliam H. & Judith W. PageEduardo Palmer*Rahul & Swati R. Patel*Mack B. & Sarah A. PearsallPaulo R. Pereira de SouzaJason A. Perkins*H. William & Cynthia E. Perry*Phelps Dunbar Robert A. & Caryl G. PiercePressly & Pressly David S. & Mary PresslyJames G. & P. Kristy PresslyKathleen Price*Barbara A. & Eric C. PuestowJohn W. & Katherine A. RandolphDiego L. Restrepo &

Tania M. Gomez-Restrepo*Robert L. Rhodes, Jr.Harley E. & Posey C. RiedelGeorge W. & Brenda H. Rohe*Sharon E. RushJohn A. & Cheryl L. SaporaDavid C. & Ronna G. SasserRonald Y. & Leslie E. SchramScroggin & Company Pierre J. & Joanmarie K. SeacordHoward & Bernice SeigelM. Stephen & Maureen T. SmithRodney W. & DeeDee C. SmithSmith, Gambrell & Russell David Smolker & Pamela W. RossSt. John Law Firm George H. & Barbara M. StarkeDeborah B. & J. Cameron Story IIIJanet R. Studley & Robert P. TroutRobert L. & Terri TankelMarjorie Bekaert & Bryan M. ThomasMichael A. Ungerbuehler

United Way of North Central FloridaVerdant Law David H. Vickrey & Gary R. EnsanaBill WagnerWaldman Trigoboff Hildebrandt

Marx & CalnanMark E. & Karen D. WalkerGregory S. & Bettina W. Weiss*Richard H. & Shirley G. WilsonJames D. WingLeighton D. & Phyllis H. YatesWilliam K. Zewadski

ENRICHMENT SOCIETY

Anonymous Barry A. AbbottLuis A. & Sallie B. AbreuJolyon D. & Christine M. AcostaAlfred B. & Joanna M. AdamsLouie N. & Mary S. AdcockElise H. AguilarMatthew J. & Rebecca M. AhearnDavid J. & Jerrie L. AkinsBayardo E. & Rayda AlemanJustin S. AlexBen & Katie V. AlexanderLarry B. & Susan M. AlexanderThomas J. & Mary Beth AliAll Children’s Hospital Randal M. & Jennifer B. AlligoodCristina AlonsoIan M. & Lauren M. AlpersteinMatthew B. AmesAlberto R. & Debra D. AmirinBrian T. & Xan AndersonBruce R. & Donna K. AndersonWilliam H. & Susan M. AndrewsMary Jane Angelo & R. Reed Pedlow IIIJohn & Nancy C. AntoonDana M. & Nicolas A. ApfelbaumEric N. & Nadine M. AppletonTerrell K. & Miriam M. ArlineShawn A. Arnold & Melissa Gross-ArnoldAmanda Arnold-Sansone &

William F. SansoneKevin A. & Prudence L. M. AshleyFrank A. & Sharon AshtonJena R. & Robert S. AtlassOffice of Attorney General

Tampa Criminal AppealsScott E. & Janet D. AtwoodBrian J. & Cary A. AungstBruce D. & Melissa B. AustinW. Dehart & Patty AyalaDavid & Cheryl BacharachChristopher D. & Frances M. BaehmanGary G. & Alexis A. BagdasarianAlton D. & Kelly S. BainFred R. Baisden, Jr.Anthony L. Bajoczky, Jr.Charles Lee Balch IIIFletcher N. & Nancy T. BaldwinAnderson L. & Anne M. BaldyCaron BalkanyHaywood M. & Anne T. BallGregory S. Band & Alexandra T. Reich-BandMichael R. & Marice C. BandAnthony J. BarbutoDanelle D. & Joseph B. BarksdaleOliver D. & Patricia D. BarksdaleMartha W. & Richard R. Barnett, Sr.Wesley G. BarrJ. Victor & Candace A. BarriosRamez BarsoumPaul M. & Lynn M. BarzlerDouglas D. & Julia B. BatchelorGeorge Z. BatehRobyn L. & Asaf BatelmanDennis K. & Marcia W. BayerJames P. BeadlePatricia E. BeanJoseph W. & Geremy G. Beasley Joan F. & Dennis J. BeerRobert Belanger

John M. & Brannon B. BelcastroErnst A. & Melissa Y. BellDavid L. & Angela F. BenjaminCarlton F. & Sue BennettW. Lee & Amanda P. BennettDonna Kay Berger Eyal & Shefra S. BergerRoss E. BergerHarold E. BergmanJohn C. & Katherine J. BerosetBrian M. & Lois M.C. BezClem Bezold & Rosemarie I. PhilipsJarrett D. & Lisa P. BingemannWorth T. & Elizabeth J. BlackwellCecile Blakeslee-Hartigan &

Anthony F. HartiganRobert G. & Marlene C. BlalockM. Robert & Julia H. BlanchardElizabeth F. & George E. BlancoByron B. & Pamela BlockJonathan M. BlockerDarryl M. & Mary BloodworthAndrew J. & Carol M. BohlmannBrian K. & Amy N. BokorBradley J. & Tandy G. BondiBradley T. & Samantha L. BordenSherrie R. BowenElizabeth A. BowersScott A. & Meghann Hoskinson BowmanRobert J. & Alice H. BoylstonYariv BraunerRobert J. BraxtonJohn T. & Marilyn A. BrennanDavid A. & Kimberly T. BrennenKeith W. & Carolyn W. BricklemyerShelton S. Bridges IVThomas P. & Kate L. BriggmannHoward W. & Katherine P. BrillW. Bard & Kathryn W. BrockmanTheotis & Jeanelle G. BronsonRalf G. & Molly E. BrookesThomas R. & Margaret M. BrownJohn M. BrumbaughVirginia M. Buchanan & Samuel A. BudnykAllen & Elmira BuckleyToby J. Buel & Tamara E. Knox-BuelCharles A. BufordT. Robert BullochB. & Martha W. BunchJohn J. BurkeKaren C. BurkeSarah R. BurkeFaye A. BurnerDavid D. & Jamey B. BurnsMalcolm B. & Virginia C. BurrisNestor & Marilyn G. BustamanteChristopher ByrdGregory A. & Cindi J. ByronDavid K. & Donna J. CahooneLerenzo Calhoun & Hope Williams-CalhounJane D. CallahanThomas P. CallanJoseph V. & Karen M. CamerlengoDavid E. CannellaL. Kinder & Barbara S. CannonMichael & Lynne S. CapeceTina L. & Luis N. CaraballoChristopher L. & Lauren F. CarmodyJohn D. CarnahanJames W. J. & Margaret S. CarpenterElizabeth A. CarrieMarc D. & Tracy D. ChapmanMichele ChappellJon C. & Claire G. ChassenRick R. & Misty Taylor ChavesLeon B. & Barbara CheekChristian F. ChessmanThomas B. R. Christenson IIRussell P. & Lee H. ChubbMarc A. & Inez CiancaKurt M. CiellPaul C. & Jennifer CipparoneDeborah M. & John A. Clancy, Jr.Lisa J. & William F. ClasenWalter G. Clayton III

Shawn M. ClineEdwin C. & Betty F. ClusterCobb Family Foundation Kolleen P. CobbRobert B. CochonourKendall Coffey & Joni Armstrong CoffeyJay P. Cohen & Christine K. BilodeauJonathan R. & Karen B. CohenColburn & Colburn Harry S. Colburn, Jr.Jonathan S. ColemanPatrick P. & Melissa B. CollCharles W. & Irina T. CollierJohn J. & Lynn M. CollinsAndrew R. & Pamela M. ComiterCharles E. & Victoria C. CommanderKraig A. & Heather L. ConnAnne Connelly-McAdamsDina M. ContriAnne T. & Robert A. CooneyCharles L. & Greta CooperStephen L. & Debra M. CordellDerrick E. & Stacey D. CoxM. Katherine & Henry M. Coxe IIIDavid M. CraneHon. Jeanne CrenshawPaul M. & Jolie M. CummingsTiffany L. CumminsDeborah E. CupplesGerald B. & Lane F. CuringtonJohn S. & Christine E. CurranJ. Edward & Janice S. CurrenJoshua D. CurryWilliam L. & Dorothy H. CurryMark H. & Kimberly C. DahlmeierKevin M. & Carol A. DalyWillem A. & Carmody G. DamanRicky R. & Deborah K. DamervillePaul W. & Georgia R. DanahyAlys N. & Steven L. DanielsClay H. Davis & Ann Stuebe-DavisClay S. & Anita G. DavisJanet DavisRobert W. Davis, Jr.Robin K. & Jeffrey D. DavisRyan E. DavisKatie L. & Daniel C. DearingGeorge R. & Lane D. DekleNeil A. DeLeonKevin E. & Barbara L. DembinskiV. Robert Denham, Jr.James P. Denvir III & Lee R. WallaceJoseph M. DepewMark R. & Karen P. DernJohn A. & Sue S. DeVaultAlexander D. DeVitisPhilip A. & Linda D. DiamondNelson D. Diaz & Lisette T. RodriguezGeorge A. & Frances DietzMichelle W. DiffenderferDorothy V. DiFioreBill & Kimberley DillonJeffrey R. & Donna DollingerTheodore R. DoranGeneral Charles W. & Mariellen DormanMichael S. Dorris & Carrie R. McDonaldCharles T. Douglas, Jr.Glen E. Douglas, Jr.Dino A. DoyleW. Ford & Freda DuaneF. Joseph & Sally A. DuBrayAubrey H. Ducker, Jr. & Laurie K. WeatherfordDonald K. & Jeanne E. DuffyKelly G. DunbergDavid D. & Dayna G. DuncanGeorge S. & Mary DunnWilliam E. & Virginia H. DunwodyStephen M. & Brenna M. DurdenDonald A. & Gene S. DvornikDavid A. & Josefa M. Eaton

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THE 1909 SOCIETY commemorates the founding year of the University of Florida Levin College of Law, while recognizing alumni and friends who sustain and advance the college with gifts to the annual fund in the amount of $2,000 and up during a single fiscal year. Support at this level improves the quality and innovation of programs for students, student organizations, teaching and research, academic programs and services, and outreach efforts. Gifts to the annual fund include those designated to nonendowed, non-building funds. All current member of the 1909 Society are designated in this report by an asterisk (*).

Charles W. & Betty Jo E. AbbottMichael A. & Honi V. AbbottDaniel H. & Joanne F. AronsonBill BoneE. G. (Dan) BooneJeffery A. & Shirley L. BooneDavid E. & Mollie M. BowersCarol M. Brewer & Andrew J. OgilvieRebecca L. Brock &

Jonathan T. KroneBrian D. BurgoonJohn W. & Mona P. CampbellSusan E. Cook & Drew S. FineTheodore A. & Marie B. DeckertBenjamin F. & Christina I. DiamondAndrew J. & Melinda W. FawbushWilliam H. FergusonMichael K. & Jacqueline FrielRaleigh W. & Beverly J. GreeneStephen H. & Fay F. GrimesJack O. & Mary O. Hackett IIBruce M. & Medea D. HarrisBrett T. & Rhonda K. HendeeJohn L. Holcomb

E. L. Roy HuntGary W. & Mary E. HustonRobert H. & Lisa Jerry Kenneth R. & Kimberly Leach

JohnsonThomas R. & Maritza A. JulinBecky Powhatan & Mark KelleySteven I. KleinAlan H. LandmanWarren W. Lindsey &

Eileen C. ForresterJoseph W. & Lucille A. LittleRobert W. Mead, Jr.Joseph C. Mellichamp III &

Barbara J. StarosFrederick J. & Karen F. MillsMichael D. & Mary P. MintonPeter P. & Christina S. MurnaghanEduardo PalmerRahul & Swati R. PatelJason A. PerkinsH. William & Cynthia E. PerryKathleen PriceGary Lee & Suzanne G. PrintyJames L. & Ann M. PurcellDiego L. Restrepo &

Tania M. Gomez-RestrepoJames C. & Gloria M. RinamanJohn T. & Leah A. RogersonGeorge W. & Brenda H. RoheTaylor K. & Manjiri S. RoseRandolph J. & Sue S. RushOscar A. Sanchez &

Lida R. Rodriguez-TaseffWilliam J. & Paola F. SchifinoErnest A. & Norma M. SellersLewis E. & Linda L. ShelleyMark T. & Jeanne T. TateLaura J. & Clarence L. ThackerRobert H. & Ashley H. ThornburgRobert L. & Doris M. TrohnJeffrey W. & Susan P. WarrenGregory S. & Bettina W. Weiss

1909 Society

Daniel D. & Virginia A. EckertHunter S. & Ashley A. EdwardsLarry L. EgerCharles H. & Reverend Karen C. EgertonJeffrey R. & Linda R. ElkinBradley John EllisSteven & Stacey P. EllisonGuy S. & Annette L. EmerichStephen C. & Susan J. EmmanuelTheodore A. Erck IIIKerry I. & Elizabeth K. EvanderWilliam A. & Carol D. EvansGail G. FaganRonald D. & Patrice E. FairchildElizabeth A. FaistChristina L. & Harris J. FaubelChristopher M. & Carol D. FearDaniel P. FeinbergDyanne E. Feinberg & Tim D. HenkelJonathan A. & Jenifer FeldmanHerman J. Felton, Jr.Brian J. & Stacy B. FenderMark A. Fenster & Trysh TravisLuis & Anna C. FernandezStephen M. & Kelly M. FernandezGregg H. & Jessica FiermanThomas M. & Robin R. FindleyJack J. & Cherie H. FineDina S. FinkelAllison FischmanS. Allister FisherGinamarie & Ross H. Fishman

Florida Association for Women Lawyers Byron D. Flagg & Whitney M. UntiedtFlorida Defenders of the EnvironmentStephen E. FogelP. Campbell FordJames W. & Lisa M. ForsythFortune Law OfficesBetty FosterBurton J. & Carol J. FosterJoseph E. & Sherry E. FosterLaura A. Fouraker-GardnerM. Lanning & Jane P. FoxJames R. & Sharon D. FranklinThomas J. Fraser, Jr.Nathan A. & Laura B. FrazierS. Katherine Frazier & John Harrison IVMichael K. FreedmanJulia L. Frey & David J. CarterAdam N. & Sierra D. FrischElizabeth Frock-Runyon & Scott P. RunyonRobert M. & Tonya D. FultonRichard D. Fultz & Patricia L. Burquest-FultzW. Scott & Jane W. GabrielsonJeffrey A. & Pamela C. GadboysCharles M. Gadd, Jr.Charles V. & Kathryn M. GagliardiRobert P. GainesPaul R. & Ann Z. GameBrenda L. GardnerAlan S. & Marcia GassmanCourtney M. GaughanClifton D. & Susan J. Gavin

Michael J. Gelfand & Mary C. ArpeJames L. & Emily P. GeorgeJonathan D. & Tracy L. GerberAlison E. & George A. GerencserGibbons, Neuman, Bello, Segall,

Allen & HalloranRobert C. GibbonsRyan L. & Jhanna C. GilbertDon E. & Kimberly A. GoebelMitchell W. & Katie K. GoldbergRobert I. & Barbara C. GoldfarbGoldman Sachs GivesPaul M. & Mollene Y. GoldmanRichard T. GoldsteinDavid M. & Dorothy M. GonzalezFreddie L. GoodeRobert F. & Karen GoodrichRebecca M. GoodwinBrent A. GordonCheryl L. & Scott E. GordonJonathan C. GordonJonathan C. & Mary S. GordonRobert E. & Leesa GordonRobert B. & Clara B. GoughBryan S. & Barbara GowdyMatthew L. & Laura F. GrabinskiAlbert N. & Katherine H. GrahamTiffany A. GrantErin M. GrayR. Frank & Jane P. GrayClare E. Gray-Bayne & Edward J. BayneElizabeth Greaton-Stephany &

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Adoption Law

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Advanced Bankruptcy

• Stichter, Riedel, Blain & Postler, P.A.

Advanced Constitutional Law

• Carter Andersen, Bush Ross In Honor of Professor

Sharon Rush

Advanced Trial Practice

• Murphy & Walker, P.L.

American Legal Thought

• In Memory of the Hon. R. Grable Stoutamire

Appellate Advocacy

• Hicks, Porter, Ebenfeld & Stein, P.A.

Conflict of Law

• Oscar A. Sanchez

Conservation Clinic

• Alton & Kathleen Lightsey

Constitutional Law

• Patrick E. Geraghty, P.A.• Phi Delta Theta in Memory

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Corporate Tax I

• Jerald David August In Memory of Professor

James Jackson Freeland• Robert Glennon

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Bankruptcy

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Leavengood

Criminal Clinic – Public

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Criminal Procedures – Police

Practices

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Deferred Compensation,

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• Michael & Honi V. Abbott

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• GrayRobinson, P.A. (endowed)

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Andrea E. Zelman• Coker, Schickel, Sorenson &

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Champions: Robert Blanchard & Virginia Buchanan

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Beach

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Marx & Calnan, Weston Champion: Glenn J. Waldman• Williams, Leininger & Cosby, North

Palm Beach Champion: Rebecca L. Brock

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Venice Champion: Jeffrey A. Boone• Broad & Cassel, Orlando Champion: Jo Thacker• Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney,

Tallahassee Champions: Heather B. Brock &

Andrea E. Zelman• Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney,

Tampa Champions: Heather B. Brock &

Andrea E. Zelman• Bush Ross, Tampa Champions: J. Carter Andersen &

Howell Melton III• Comiter Singer Baseman & Braun,

Palm Beach Gardens Champion: Andrew R. Comiter• Dentons, Atlanta Champion: Joshua Curry• Haliczer, Pettis & Schwamm, Fort

Lauderdale Champion: Eugene K. Pettis• Henderson Franklin Starnes &

Holt, Fort Myers Champion: Guy Whitesman• Jakab Law, Jacksonville Champion: Kevin E. Jakab• Sutherland, Atlanta Champion: Jonathan A. Feldman

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Trademark Law

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Posgay, Camerlengo and Iracki• Jeffrey Boone, Steve Boone &

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• Liles, Gavin & George, P.A.• Mary Lou and Buddy Schulz

In Honor of Robert J. Beckham (JD 55)

• Milton, Leach, Whitman, D’Andrea, & Eslinger, P.A.

• Monte J. Tillis Jr. Memorial (endowed)• John T. Rogerson, II &

Timothy W. Volpe

Unincorporated Business

Enterprises

• William A. Weber

Water Law

• de la Parte & Gilbert, P.A. In Memory of Louis de la Parte, Jr.

White Collar Crime

• In Honor of Charles P. Pillans, III (endowed)

Workers’ Compensation & Other

employment rights

• Rosenthal, Levy, Simon & Ryles, P.A.

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Class of 1948

Class Total: $350.00No. in Class: 49Participation: 6%Enrichment Society

Corneal B. Myers, Jr.William C. Owen, Jr.

Class of 1950

Class Total: $900.00No. in Class: 53Participation: 8%Enrichment Society

Harold E. BergmanParker L. McDonaldWelcom H. Watson, Sr.

Class of 1951

Class Total: $9,106.38No. in Class: 63Participation: 10%Founders Society - platinum

James D. Camp, Jr.Enrichment Society

George A. DietzWilliam T. Harrison, Jr.G. A. Smith Winifred L. Wentworth

Class of 1952

Class Total: $110,126.24No. in Class: 30Participation: 13%Enrichment Society

Doyle RogersRichard S. Wolfson

Class of 1953

Class Total: $2,000.00No. in Class: 38Participation: 3%Founders Society - gold

Charles W. Abbott

Class of 1954

Class Total: $6,250.00No. in Class: 28Participation: 14%Founders Society - gold

E. G. (Dan) BooneRobert L. TrohnTrusler Society

Stephen H. GrimesEnrichment Society

Charles E. Smith

Class of 1955

Class Total: $1,200.00No. in Class: 25Participation: 12%Founders Society - gold

Gerald SohnTrusler Society

W. Ray FortnerEnrichment Society

Edward Siegel

Class of 1956

Class Total: $1,400.00No. in Class: 28Participation: 18%Trusler Society

Peter T. FayEnrichment Society

Louie N. Adcock, Jr.Robert P. GainesWilliam A. Zeiher

Class of 1957

Class Total: $450.00No. in Class: 39Participation: 8%Enrichment Society

Paul W. Danahy, Jr.William L. HendryYoung J. Simmons

Class of 1958

Class Total: $175.00No. in Class: 44Participation: 7%Founders Society - gold

T. Terrell Sessums, Sr.

Class of 1959

Class Total: $200.00No. in Class: 48Participation: 4%Enrichment Society

Robert J. BoylstonJoseph Q. Tarbuck

Class of 1960

Class Total: $5,850.00No. in Class: 54Participation: 11%Associates

James C. Rinaman, Jr.Trusler Society

Bill WagnerEnrichment Society

Thomas R. BrownRoger O. IsphordingRobert A. KimbroughL. David Shear

Class of 1961

Class Total: $12,875.00No. in Class: 60Participation: 15%Founders Society - platinum

Fredric G. LevinFounders Society - silver

Jon C. MoyleRaymond W. RoyceEnrichment Society

John T. BrennanEdwin C. ClusterPaul M. GoldmanC. Parkhill Mays, Jr.Harry M. Sawyer, Jr.Thomas H. Thurlow, Jr.

Class of 1962

Class Total: $7,100.00No. in Class: 84Participation: 12%Founders Society - silver

DuBose AusleyErnest A. SellersTrusler Society

W. George AllenNorman Broad

Enrichment Society

Byron B. BlockJ. Edward CurrenJames C. HooverAntonio Martinez, Jr.David P. Newman

Class of 1963

Class Total: $3,400.00No. in Class: 82Participation: 6%Founders Society - gold

John C. BierleyAssociates

Tad DavisEnrichment Society

Robert G. BlalockWm. Bruce Louden

Class of 1964

Class Total: $100,202.43No. in Class: 118Participation: 2%Founders Society - gold

Richard L. KuersteinerEnrichment Society

Haywood M. Ball

Class of 1965

Class Total: $15,200.00No. in Class: 127Participation: 6%Founders Society - gold

Sidney A. Stubbs, Jr.Founders Society - silver

Paul C. HuckTrusler Society

Steve C. HorowitzRichard H. WilsonEnrichment Society

Russell P. ChubbCharles E. CommanderWallace H. HallBenjamin H. Hill III

Class of 1966

Class Total: $5,101.00No. in Class: 164Participation: 7%

Trusler Society

J. Thomas CardwellAllan P. ClarkEnrichment Society

L. Kinder Cannon IIIRobert B. CochonourEugene J. HowardRobert T. MountsCharles P. Pillans IIIStephen J. PowellGregory A. PresnellJohn F. Roscow III

Class of 1967

Class Total: $18,711.00No. in Class: 194Participation: 10%Founders Society - silver

Frederick A. HazouriSamuel C. UllmanAssociates

Barry S. SinoffTrusler Society

Barry R. DavidsonEnrichment Society

W. Dehart Ayala, Jr.Jeanne CrenshawJohn A. DeVault IIIW. Ford DuaneRobert J. Head, Jr.Dorsey F. Henderson, Jr.Roger A. LarsonAlexander C. MacKinnonDaniel I. McCranieR. William Rutter, Jr.Eric B. SmithEdward B. WoodberyJames H. Woodroffe IIICouncil Wooten, Jr.

Class of 1968

Class Total: $5,955.00No. in Class: 175Participation: 6%Trusler Society

Herbert L. AllenCharles W. Arnold, Jr.Richard C. AusnessEnrichment Society

Fred R. Baisden, Jr.

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“I’m a Stephen King fanatic. I preorder

his new books even before they are

published, and I devour them when

they arrive. Other than reading about

sports and rock history, King novels are

the only ‘non-serious’ reading that I do.

And I’m a big fan of Stephen King, de-

spite the fact that he’s a rabid Boston

Red Sox fan.”

Wolf’s eighth book — Land Use Law (6th edition, with Daniel Mandelker) — is published this year, joining his other writings widely cited by professors, judges, and law and planning practitioners. He edits Powell on Real Property, the 17-volume treatise that is the closest Wolf will ever come to Stephen King’s expansive saga, The Dark Tower.

UF LAWI A M

Michael Allan WolfProfessor, Richard E. Nelson

Chair in Local Government Law

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Douglas D. Batchelor, Jr.Jonathan C. Gordon Edwin F. HornbrookIra W. McCollum, Jr.Robert D. McIntoshCharles T. SandsMitchell H. SpingarnWarren E. Williams

Class of 1969

Class Total: $12,866.40No. in Class: 170Participation: 10%Founders Society - gold

F. Wallace Pope, Jr.Partners

Robert W. Mead, Jr.Associates

James C. FlemingTrusler Society

George W. RoheWilliam K. ZewadskiEnrichment Society

Marc A. CiancaCharles H. EgertonWilliam A. EvansJohn F. Harkness, Jr.Thomas B. Hyman, Jr.A. McArthur IrvinHenry E. Mallue, Jr.Ben PattersonAlexander SpitzerRobert F. Williams

Class of 1970

Class Total: $17,755.63No. in Class: 189Participation: 7%Partners

Ronald L. FickTrusler Society

J. Richard Caldwell, Jr.Joseph C. Mellichamp IIIRonald Y. SchramEnrichment Society

Howard W. BrillJohn M. BrumbaughWilliam E. Dunwody IIIGuy S. Emerich

W. Scott GabrielsonCharles M. Gadd, Jr.James T. HaleyChristy F. HarrisJohn Kendrick Tucker

Class of 1971

Class Total: $5,050.00No. in Class: 210Participation: 8%Founders Society - gold

W. C. GentryAssociates

Leslie J. BarnettEllis Zahra, Jr.Trusler Society

Richard A. HorderEnrichment Society

Larry B. AlexanderDarryl M. BloodworthRonald D. FairchildWilliam J. GundlachLouis F. Hubener IIICharles H. LivingstonSteven E. RohanMartin J. SperryMichael P. SullivanJoseph Maxwell Williams IIIRonald E. Young

Class of 1972

Class Total: $31,120.06No. in Class: 335Participation: 8%Founders Society - gold

Gene K. GlasserJeffrey W. WarrenFounders Society - silver

Bruce H. BokorJames G. Pressly, Jr.Clifford A. SchulmanTrusler Society

G. Thomas BallRichard C. GrantDonald S. KohlaJames S. Moody, Jr.Enrichment Society

William H. AndrewsLeon B. Cheek III

Christopher M. FearFrank B. Gummey IIIMark L. HorwitzRussell H. KasperG. Carson McEachern IIIWilliam D. McFarlane, Jr.Manuel Menendez, Jr.Jon L. MillsJames W. SherbyL. Haldane TaylorJonathan F. Wershow

Class of 1973

Class Total: $46,457.33No. in Class: 375Participation: 9%Founders Society - silver

Martha L. CochranBuddy SchulzPartners

Pamela O. PriceHap ShashyAssociates

Philip A. DeLaneyTrusler Society

Kenneth C. EllisMary B. EllisRaleigh W. Greene IIILeighton D. Yates, Jr.Enrichment Society

Martha W. BarnettGeorge Z. BatehJoseph W. BeasleyDean B. BunchPaul M. CummingsGeorge R. Dekle, Sr.Charles W. DormanF. Joseph DuBrayGeorge S. DunnR. Frank GrayDouglass E. Myers, Jr.Jan K. SeidenFrederick D. SmithMal SteinbergPeter B. TiernanKenneth A. TreadwellRene G. VanDeVoordeJoseph H. WilliamsArt WrobleRobert L. Young

Class of 1974

Class Total: $44,190.00No. in Class: 273Participation: 10%Founders Society - gold

Richard P. ColeFounders Society - silver

K. Lawrence GraggRobert M. KramerBarristers

Gwynne A. YoungPartners

Brian D. HillTrusler Society

J.P. Carolan IIIAndrew J. FawbushHarley E. Riedel IIEnrichment Society

J. Victor BarriosClay S. Davis, Jr.Daniel D. EckertTheodore A. Erck IIIM. Lanning FoxRobert C. GibbonsJ. Bruce HoffmannFrederick W. JonesMichael L. Katz

J. Thomas McGrady IIILouis K. RosenbloumEdward O. Savitz, Jr.James M. Sowell, Jr.Bill P. WhiteBruce I. Yegelwel

Class of 1975

Class Total: $28,916.72No. in Class: 348Participation: 11%Founders Society - silver

Maureen G. GraggMark J. ProctorAssociates

Anne C. ConwayAlan M. Gerlach, Jr.Trusler Society

Bernie A. Barton, Jr.John W. CampbellTheodore A. DeckertB. Douglas Hind-MarshSteven D. MerrydayM. Stephen Smith IIIRodney W. SmithEnrichment Society

Barry A. AbbottCarlton F. BennettJames P. Denvir IIICharles V. GagliardiRobert M. HarrisJames M. HaygoodRobert A. HeekinJeffrey A. HirschJohn H. JonesAlthea M. LachicotteJohn E. Lawlor IIIAnthony P. Mario, Jr.Patrick F. MaroneyHowell W. Melton, Jr.Austin F. ReedRyland T. RigsbyPatrick W. SkeltonDavid H. SlachterGregory T. StewartDaniel Y. SumnerJames B. Tilghman, Jr.Clemon W. Tripp, Jr.Jose F. Valdivia, Jr.Richard G. WackCraig G. Wolfson

Class of 1976

Class Total: $106,661.80No. in Class: 369Participation: 9%Founders Society - platinum

Ellen Bellet GelbergFounders Society - gold

Betsy Ellwanger GallagherFounders Society - silver

Kevin A. MaloneHans G. Tanzler IIIPartners

Becky Powhatan KelleyCarol J. PontonWilliam A. WeberAssociates

R. Vinson BarrettW. Michael CliffordGary D. FoxTrusler Society

William A. BoylesSally A. DornWilliam H. FergusonDaniel B. HarrellJanet R. StudleyMarjorie Bekaert Thomas

Enrichment Society

Michael R. BandGerald B. CuringtonJack J. FineJames L. GeorgeMark F. LewisDonna C. LitmanJames J. LongCraig C. MitchellNicholas A. PopeGlenna J. ReevesCharles A. Reinhardt, Jr.Judith L. RosenthalPaul E. RosenthalAndrew B. ThomasMyra B. TorresMarilyn C. Wolf-Peterson

Class of 1977

Class Total: $17,945.00No. in Class: 316Participation: 7%Partners

Lauren Y. DetzelJesse W. RigbyLewis E. ShelleyLinda L. ShelleyAssociates

John J. ScrogginTrusler Society

Charles S. ModellBarbara J. StarosEnrichment Society

Bruce D. AustinJoan F. BeerToby J. Buel, Sr.Freddie L. GoodeJoel R. HooperRoy H. LasrisThomas B. SmithVictor M. SuarezMax N. Wallace

Class of 1978

Class Total: $60,089.00No. in Class: 369Participation: 8%Founders Society - gold

Cheryl R. PeekDavid H. PeekTrusler Society

Dennis M. CampbellKaye CollieAndrew J. DonelsonRandy Meg KammerPeter P. MurnaghanEnrichment Society

Jeanelle G. BronsonTheotis BronsonKendall B. Coffey Jay P. CohenGail G. FaganLuis FernandezRichard D. FultzCheryl L. GordonRobert E. GordonPatricia P. H. JonesMark S. KesslerRobert J. MerlinShirley W. OvletreaFrancis E. Pierce IIIColleen A. PrestonKent Harrison RobbinsJeffrey D. SegalJoseph S. SilverCharles R. SteinbergMichael H. Streater

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Class of 1979

Class Total: $71,011.27No. in Class: 318Participation: 13%Founders Society - gold

Carol M. BrewerBrian M. O’ConnellLindy L. PaullFounders Society - silver

Ladd H. FassettLarry E. Sellers, Jr.Partners

Jack O. Hackett IIWarren W. LindseyAssociates

Peter T. KirkwoodTrusler Society

John L. HolcombDavid S. PresslyDavid C. SasserEnrichment Society

Joni Armstrong CoffeyJames P. BeadleChristine K. BilodeauFaye A. BurnerV. Robert Denham, Jr.Joseph E. FosterRobert S. GrisctiGail L. HankinsonJohn H. Hankinson, Jr.Jeanette K. HelfrichCraig P. HoffmanStuart N. HopenGlenn R. HoskenMichael J. KornScott LodinAlfred J. MalefattoMary Anne PriceMoria RozensonRichard J. SarafanPamela A. SchneiderScott A. SpechtKaren StegerSam T. StegerRichard L. StocktonJennifer A. WestGail I. Winson

Class of 1980

Class Total: $32,280.00No. in Class: 347Participation: 7%Founders Society - gold

Peter J. GenzBarristers

Richard B. ComiterPartners

Randolph J. RushEnrichment Society

Anonymous Terrell K. ArlineCharles A. BufordJon C. ChassenKerry I. EvanderRobert I. GoldfarbCynthia A. Hawkins Michael S. HawleyPenny Hershoff-BrillPhilippe C. JeckRoss T. LessackNeil M. O’TooleMarshall R. PasternackCharles M. RandJeffrey A. RynorRichard B. TroutmanC. Douglas Wingate

Class of 1981

Class Total: $87,637.00No. in Class: 375Participation: 10%Founders Society - gold

Casey JohnsonMichael D. MintonFounders Society - silver

Jeffrey D. FeldmanKenneth R. JohnsonKimberly Leach JohnsonPartners

Eileen C. ForresterCynthia A. HollowayJeanne T. TateTrusler Society

Susan E. CookThomas R. JulinJames E. Moye, Sr.Robert L. TankelDavid H. VickreyEnrichment Society

Luis A. AbreuMary C. ArpePatricia L. Burquest-FultzDeborah K. DamervilleRicky R. DamervilleElizabeth K. EvanderCherie H. FineStephen E. FogelCharlene E. HoneywellNancy H. JacksonNelly N. KhouzamMarvin A. KirsnerPaula N. LambCheryl K. LindgrenRobert R. LindgrenMartha A. LottJody H. OliverD. Lawrence RayburnHoward M. RosenblattLaurie W. ValentineWallace C. von Arx IIIColonel Marc L. WarrenCarl J. ZahnerSharon A. Zahner

Class of 1982

Class Total: $35,152.33No. in Class: 391Participation: 10%Founders Society - silver

Paul R. LinderBarristers

Louis NostroPartners

Bruce R. Abernethy, Jr.Jeffery A. BooneLee D. Gunn IVMargaret D. MathewsGary Lee PrintyOscar A. SanchezAssociates

John C. BovayRichard C. Pfenniger, Jr.Trusler Society

Robert W. Anthony, Jr.Karen K. Meyer-BuesingDavid SmolkerEnrichment Society

Alys N. DanielsTheodore R. DoranDavid A. Eaton, Sr.Julia L. FreyBrenda L. GardnerAlan S. Gassman

Michael J. GelfandRobert F. GoodrichMichael P. HaymansGrant C. JaquithJohn D. JoplingGary M. KaleitaKenneth M. MalnikMarybeth McDonaldDavid B. NorrisRobert V. Potter, Jr.Darryl R. RichardsEdward J. RichardsonBrian P. RushEnrichment Society

Sheila L. SeigMorris SilbermanMark J. Wolfson

Class of 1983

Class Total: $46,534.33No. in Class: 328Participation: 8%Founders Society - gold

Scott G. HawkinsFounders Society - silver

James A. GaleGeorge A. VakaGlenn J. WaldmanPartners

Scott C. IlgenfritzT. Clay PhillipsMark T. Tate, Jr.Enrichment Society

Thomas J. AliRandal M. AlligoodCecile Blakeslee-HartiganM. Robert BlanchardStephen C. EmmanuelDyanne E. FeinbergClare E. Gray-BayneLee T. GriffinJohn E. HaleRichard H. HiersSuzanne D. LanierKeith G. MedleauDennis R. O’ConnorLorinda M. SchreierSidney S. Simmons IIJohn A. Stanton

Class of 1984

Class Total: $14,864.00No. in Class: 319Participation: 9%Founders Society - gold

Edward DowneyFounders Society - silver

Bill BonePartners

Michael A. BedkeAndrea E. ZelmanAssociates

Frederick J. MillsTracy A. NicholsTrusler Society

Allen N. Jelks, Jr.Enrichment Society

David J. AkinsBrian M. BezJohn J. BurkeDeborah M. ClancyStephen M. DurdenLarry L. EgerP. Campbell FordAlison E. GerencserStanley D. Klett, Jr.Cynthia Z. MacKinnon

Alexandra M. MacLennanMichael L. O’NeillJennifer B. SpringfieldBrian J. StackMark E. TimmesDavid R. Vetter

Class of 1985

Class Total: $58,080.00No. in Class: 358Participation: 11%Founders Society - silver

Michael W. SmithBarristers

Eugene K. PettisPartners

William J. Schifino, Jr.Associates

Mark W. KlingensmithTrusler Society

Raul A. CuervoJohn E. LeightonEduardo PalmerDeborah B. StoryEnrichment Society

Anderson L. Baldy IIIPaul M. BarzlerDennis K. BayerNestor BustamanteBrenna M. DurdenSteven EllisonGregg H. FiermanWillie Earl HallBrenda S. HibbelnMichael G. KermanPhyllis D. KoteyElizabeth R. KrentzmanRobert E. LewisDennis E. ManelliLee Ann SchreiberAli SteinbachLisa L. TroutmanJeffry S. WadeSalome J. Zikakis

Class of 1986

Class Total: $14,167.21No. in Class: 387Participation: 7%Partners

Mark CitrinAssociates

Lawrence KeefeJuan J. Rodriguez Trusler Society

Mary C. CrottyH. William PerryEnrichment Society

J. Parker Ailstock Frank A. AshtonJames W. J. CarpenterPhilip A. DiamondJeffrey R. DollingerJeffrey R. ElkinJames R. Franklin, Sr.Paul R. GameStephen V. HoffmanScott E. HuntLucy W. KermanSteven D. LearWilliam A. ParadyFrank A. Pavese, Jr.Susan M. SeigleJames A. Taylor IIIWade D. White

Class of 1987

Class Total: $26,847.00No. in Class: 372Participation: 8%Partners

Alan H. LandmanLaura J. ThackerAssociates

Mayanne A. DownsJon C. Moyle, Jr.Richard C. SmithTrusler Society

Ronald M. GacheAmy R. MashburnEnrichment Society

Mary Jane AngeloAnne M. BaldyJane D. CallahanThomas P. CallanJohn D. CarnahanThomas M. FindleyThomas H. GundersonSusan L. HanlonArthur S. HardyMaureen M. MathesonSteven M. MeyersKaren L. Mills-FrancisKathleen M. PaustianJuliet M. RoulhacKayla B. RynorRonnie A. SabbJeffrey S. Weiss

Class of 1988

Class Total: $6,812.56No. in Class: 361Participation: 8%Associates

R. Scott CostantinoTrusler Society

Pierre J. SeacordEnrichment Society

Bruce R. Anderson, Jr.Ralf G. BrookesVirginia M. BuchananKolleen P. CobbJonathan S. ColemanKraig A. ConnRobin K. DavisMark R. DernPaul J. HealyMark J. HeiseFrederick L. Kretschmer, Jr.Frank A. LandgraffMartin H. LevinBeth B. MillsScott E. RayRussell C. SilverglateDouglas A. SmithSteven D. TurnageGerard F. Wehle, Jr.

Class of 1989

Class Total: $6,737.00No. in Class: 352Participation: 6%Associates

John T. Rogerson IIITrusler Society

Bruce D. Landrum

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Enrichment Society

W. Bard BrockmanMarc D. ChapmanDonald A. DvornikDaniel P. FeinbergCorinne C. HodakCaroline E. KasperJoseph M. Madden, Jr.Joseph G. MarxDavid P. MilianSteven E. MillerCharles P. MitchellEric T. OlsenGail M. OteroL. Gray SandersMichael I. UdineRobert D. Walker, Jr.

Class of 1990

Class Total: $7,697.00No. in Class: 374Participation: 5%Associates

David L. BilskerTrusler Society

Mack B. Pearsall, Jr.Sarah A. PearsallEnrichment Society

Gregory S. BandTracy D. ChapmanDerrick E. CoxRobert B. Gough IIICarri S. LeiningerBernardo LopezJohn D. MalkowskiDavid E. Mallen Alexa R. RossFrancisco J. RozaBradley M. Saxton

Class of 1991

Class Total: $12,075.00No. in Class: 372Participation: 5%Partners

Wil MurphyAssociates

Michelle AnchorsWendy H. WerbEnrichment Society

David A. BrennenThomas P. BriggmannMichael D. KaminerAlex J. KurkinAndrea D. PerkinsPaul C. Perkins, Jr.Kimberly Bonder RezankaLaura F. SherryMark N. TiptonMark R. Zimmerman

Class of 1992

Class Total: $12,650.00No. in Class: 363Participation: 6%Partners

D. Bruce HoffmanTrusler Society

Barbara A. PuestowJohn W. Randolph, Jr.John A. SaporaDeeDee C. SmithMark E. Walker

Enrichment Society

Jena R. AtlassDanelle D. BarksdaleOliver D. BarksdaleElizabeth A. CarrieNeil A. DeLeonS. Katherine FrazierCourtney K. GrimmEric S. Kolar Caren L. LoguercioJonathan D. WaldRussell H. WillisSusan M. Zahniser

Class of 1993

Class Total: $10,790.00No. in Class: 405Participation: 6%Partners

Bruce M. HarrisTrusler Society

Gregory S. HagopianK. Judith LaneDonna L. LonghouseKaren D. WalkerEnrichment Society

Nancy T. BaldwinSherrie R. BowenDavid E. CannellaAnne T. CooneyJonathan D. GerberHeather B. ParkinsonAmi R. PatelRachel P. RayJanice M. RickertHarris C. SiskindJulie J. Smith TodmanRobert G. Thornhill III

Class of 1994

Class Total: $8,927.00No. in Class: 380Participation: 4%Partners

Matthew N. PosgayAssociates

Marc A. WitesTrusler Society

P. Kristy PresslyEnrichment Society

Joseph V. Camerlengo, Jr.Tracy L. GerberKevin D. JohnsonLorien S. JohnsonLarry H. KuninThomas W. LedmanCarol B. ShanninNicholas A. ShanninCathleen A. TalbotLaura J. Varela

Class of 1995

Class Total: $8,130.00No. in Class: 376Participation: 8%Associates

Charlotte L. Warren-WilliamsTrusler Society

Kimberly KeravuoriEnrichment Society

Kevin A. AshleyScott E. AtwoodErnst A. BellMelissa Y. BellMisty Taylor ChavesWillem A. DamanLaura A. Fouraker-GardnerShane A. HartChristopher Kelly

Scott W. KonopkaJoseph H. Lang, Jr.Karl M. LiebmanPatrick F. McCormackJ. Andrew MeyerCharles T. MooreTimothy M. O’BrienCharles F. Otto, Jr.William C. RencherMatthew L. RosinChristine R. SensenigJeffrey M. TaylorLisa S. Taylor

Class of 1996

Class Total: $10,160.00No. in Class: 373Participation: 5%Partners

James L. Purcell, Jr.Casey WalkerEnrichment Society

Patricia D. BarksdaleAndrew J. BohlmannMichele ChappellPatrick P. CollAdriane M. IsenbergJames F. JohnstonFrank W. KenniastyDonald R. KirkMarisol E. LauermanKathryn W. ObertoJohn D. RuffierJeremy M. SensenigDavid Tetrick, Jr.F. Scott Westheimer

Class of 1997

Class Total: $11,180.00No. in Class: 372Participation: 6%Partners

Brian D. BurgoonAssociates

Maria C. CarantzasTrusler Society

Jay KimRahul PatelEnrichment Society

John M. BelcastroLerenzo CalhounRick R. ChavesJeffrey A. JacobsCristin C. KeaneJennifer D. ManningJillian E. MarcusM. Scotland MorrisTommy D. Permenter, Jr.Kenneth A. TinklerPaul W. TrippHope Williams-CalhounHarris B. Winsberg

Class of 1998

Class Total: $20,504.00No. in Class: 385Participation: 9%Barristers

Natalie A. GoodwinPartners

J. Carter AndersenRebecca L. BrockTaylor K. RoseDavid M. SeiferTrusler Society

Gregory S. WeissEnrichment Society

Matthew B. AmesEric N. Appleton

Brannon B. BelcastroBradley J. BondiTina L. CaraballoMichael S. DorrisThomas J. Fraser, Jr.Clifton D. GavinJeffrey M. HazenTyler HillBryan W. KeeneIvan A. MoralesKenneth S. PiernikPatrick J. RischBrian J. SasaduJeffrey A. SudduthBrian K. SzilvasyMatthew E. ThatcherE. John Wagner IIMoneque S. Walker-PickettMary Ellen Winkler

Class of 1999

Class Total: $11,497.00No. in Class: 386Participation: 7%Trusler Society

Joseph E. Fluet IIIJames G. Pressly IIIEnrichment Society

Shawn A. ArnoldBradley T. BordenShelton S. Bridges IVRyan E. DavisKatie L. DearingDino A. DoyleAubrey H. Ducker, Jr.Jonathan A. FeldmanBrian J. FenderDavid M. GonzalezBryan S. GowdyMatthew L. GrabinskiMelissa Gross-ArnoldMaureen M. HazenChristina V. LockwoodKathy-Ann W. MarlinGinny R. NealChristina Y. NelsonStefan A. RubinRichard N. SherrillBrian P. TraumanFrederick S. Wermuth

Class of 2000

Class Total: $7,975.00No. in Class: 393Participation: 5%Partners

Ian R. LeavengoodEnrichment Society

Cristina AlonsoAnthony J. BarbutoMark H. DahlmeierAshley D. Foster-PinnockEric J. HallJohn P. JunodJudd P. KoenigRussell KooninMatthew P. McLauchlinGregory M. MillardJulie L. SellersAmy G. SudduthDean T. Xenick

Class of 2001

Class Total: $9,660.00No. in Class: 383Participation: 5%Partners

Robin L. Leavengood

Trusler Society

Payl E. & Stacy DeHartWilliam C. Nijem, Jr.Enrichment Society

Ben AlexanderCarol A. DalyKerry E. HandJeremy P. HertzJohn G. KalinowskiRoger H. Miller IIIMichael M. Mills, Jr.Jeffrey A. NeimanLara Osofsky LeaderDuane L. PinnockGlennys O. RubinRose K. WilsonSusan J. Wolchok

Class of 2002

Class Total: $8,534.00No. in Class: 401Participation: 6%Partners

Robert H. ThornburgTrusler Society

Salvatore BochicchioMichael A. UngerbuehlerEnrichment Society

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Class of 2003

Class Total: $10,101.00No. in Class: 428Participation: 7%Partners

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Sarah CortvriendSteven I. KleinEnrichment Society

Robyn L. BatelmanJohn C. BerosetKatherine J. BerosetKelly M. FernandezStephen M. FernandezS. Allister FisherPamela Jo Hatley Kevin E. JakabBarry D. LapidesJessica C. MasonDarin PattonCecil D. RolleKelly K. SamekNicole S. StarosteckiScott A. UnderwoodJ. S. VaccianaLisa M. Wolgast

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Class Total: $8,028.00No. in Class: 398Participation: 7%

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Eyal BergerDavid D. BurnsNelson D. DiazHerman J. Felton, Jr.Brent A. GordonErin M. GrayAlexander F. HarperCanaan E. HimmelbaumSteven Douglas KnoxLaura E. Minton-YoungErik R. MoellerKenneth R. Noble IIIYong PengKaren L. Persis Brenton J. RossAshley A. SawyerDavid A. SilberNina TarafaLenore T. TomeiJason M. TragerMatthew Z. Zimmerman

Class of 2005

Class Total: $7,862.92No. in Class: 375Participation: 6%Partners

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Marta F. ElfenbeinEnrichment Society

Angela F. BenjaminDavid L. Benjamin W. Lee Bennett IIIChristopher L. Carmody, Jr.Deborah E. CupplesMichael K. FreedmanA. Felipe GuerreroJarrett R. HoffmanCathy A. KammCarolyn M. KershnerWhitney M. UntiedtErica K. WilliamsMatthew L. WolfeJessica R. Zissimopulos

Class of 2006

Class Total: $8,145.06No. in Class: 407Participation: 7%Enrichment Society

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Class of 2007

Class Total: $5,251.56No. in Class: 445Participation: 7%Enrichment Society

Ian M. AlpersteinNava Ben-AvrahamScott A. BowmanTiffany L. CumminsBradley John EllisChristina L. FaubelDina S. FinkelElizabeth Frock-RunyonRebecca M. GoodwinErin R. HinesMeghann Hoskinson BowmanMatthew A. KarpHolly R. MillerFarooq A. MithaJohn H. Rains IVLeanne M. SiegfriedDarryl F. SmithKevin S. SobelCarolyn R. WardJoshua C. WebbAlexandra N. Wilson

Class of 2008

Class Total: $4,092.08No. in Class: 304Participation: 8%Enrichment Society

Lauren M. AlpersteinBrian J. Aungst, Jr.Wesley G. BarrSarah R. BurkeAndrew R. ComiterElizabeth A. FaistJeffrey A. GadboysMichael A. HershJessica Sommer JacksonPatrick O. JacksonIlan G. KauferAndrew D. KramerJoshua R. LevensonWilliam B. LewisGiannina MarinLaura C. PyneEdward N. Rauschkolb

Class of 2009

Class Total: $7,009.00No. in Class: 419Participation: 10%Trusler Society

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Dana M. ApfelbaumChristopher D. BaehmanJonathan M. BlockerLisa J. ClasenDina M. ContriM. Katherine CoxeDavid M. CraneHunter S. EdwardsMitchell W. GoldbergDennis C. GucciardoHeather J. HowdeshellJennifer Erin JonesJulie C. LedermannMatthew I. LufranoMichael W. LuongoAlison L. MadduxMark K. Pavlick IIRobert V. Phillips IIIJason A. PillLindsay M. SaxeJessica M. ShapiroSriram Srinivasan

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Class of 2010

Class Total: $7,290.00No. in Class: 380Participation: 9%Trusler Society

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Robert J. BraxtonPaul C. CipparoneAnne Connelly-McAdamsRobert W. Davis, Jr.Amy L. HannaAndres C. HealyLauren M. HeggestadCassidy E. JonesJacquelyn J. JoyceAllison L. KirkwoodRyan E. LeBlancDana B. MehlmanFrancis E. Pierce IVKristen RasmussenTiffany C. RaushGustav L. SchmidtKevin SharbaughWilliam G. SmithErin M. SwickChristie J. VetterMonica L. WilsonJay A. Yagoda

Class of 2011

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Elise H. AguilarJustin S. AlexAnthony L. Bajoczky, Jr.Elizabeth A. BowersNathan A. FrazierAdam D. GriffinHilary R. HuberJohn M. HuntJohn J. Joyce IIIKathryn H. KellamRobert B. LingleFrank M. MariMichael B. MathersKristen M. McKinneyElysa R. MerlinKatherine A. MoumMegan A. PicataggioChristine K. PrattMatthew J. RichardsonDwayne A. RobinsonDarren SchweigerAmy M. WesselJennifer L. White

Class of 2012

Class Total: $3,987.00No. in Class: 326Participation: 7%Enrichment Society

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Class Total: $3,465.00No. in Class: 358Participation: 6%Enrichment Society

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Class of 2014

Class Total: $2,769.28No. in Class: 305Participation: 8%Enrichment Society

Ross E. BergerBrock A. HankinsMarc B. HernandezSarah M. KippersStephen E. LudoviciWilliam A. McBrideJustin W. McConnellMatthew E. MoatsMatthew H. PricePatricia L. ReidRobert D. SowellRebecca M. StorkMichael T. TricoliDane R. Ullian

Class of 2015

Class Total: $1,836.85No. in Class: 296Participation: 22%Enrichment Society

Brian T. AndersonLauren V. HumphriesMonique N. Wilson

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Class of 1975

Class Total: $13,895.74No. in Class: 38Participation: 16%Founders Society - silver

K. Lawrence GraggPartners

Dennis A. CalfeeEnrichment Society

Harry S. Colburn, Jr.David M. HudsonWilliam V. Linne

Class of 1976

Class Total: $4,800.00No. in Class: 40Participation: 18%Trusler Society

Bernie A. Barton, Jr.James B. O’NealRobert A. PierceEnrichment Society

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Class of 1977

Class Total: $75,573.54No. in Class: 39Participation: 23%Founders Society - platinum

Ellen Bellet GelbergFounders Society - silver

Hans G. Tanzler IIIAssociates

Nathaniel L. DolinerHarry M. EisenbergEnrichment Society

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Class of 1978

Class Total: $4,250.00No. in Class: 66Participation: 11%Trusler Society

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Class of 1979

Class Total: $28,569.79No. in Class: 44Participation: 16%Founders Society - gold

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John J. ScrogginEnrichment Society

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Class of 1980

Class Total: $31,235.00No. in Class: 47Participation: 15%Founders Society - gold

Brian M. O’ConnellLindy L. PaullAssociates

Peter T. KirkwoodEnrichment Society

Gerald R. Kleedehn

Class of 1981

Class Total: $13,562.00No. in Class: 65Participation: 23%Founders Society - gold

David E. BowersBarristers

Richard B. Comiter

Partners

Randolph J. RushEnrichment Society

Anonymous Michael S. HawleyCraig P. HoffmanCarl D. InskeepWilliam R. Lane, Jr.James L. LeetFrederick M. RobinsonGerald F. StackAnton H. Zidansek

Class of 1982

Class Total: $28,950.00No. in Class: 60Participation: 8%Founders Society - gold

Michael D. MintonEnrichment Society

Patricia L. Burquest-FultzMarvin A. KirsnerFrederick A. Knorr IIIAlan L. Rubens

Class of 1983

Class Total: $5,800.00No. in Class: 60Participation: 13%Partners

Michael A. AbbottBruce R. Abernethy, Jr.Enrichment Society

Stephen L. CordellAlan S. GassmanAlbert N. GrahamMichael A. LeveyRobert L. Miller

Class of 1984

Class Total: $5,775.00No. in Class: 72Participation: 8%Partners

Mark T. Tate, Jr.Enrichment Society

Jonathan L. HayM. Elaina Massey

Fred WilliamsSharon A. ZahnerDiane M. Zimmerman

Class of 1985

Class Total: $3,025.00No. in Class: 73Participation: 8%Associates

W. Michael CliffordGuy E. WhitesmanEnrichment Society

Charles Lee Balch IIIStephen R. LooneyRicky J. Weiss

Class of 1986

Class Total: $100.00No. in Class: 47Participation: 2%Enrichment Society

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Class of 1987

Class Total: $11,650.00No. in Class: 61Participation: 10%Barristers

James W. Goodwin IILouis NostroEnrichment Society

Scott E. HuntMelton E. Knotts, Jr.Lisa S. Odom

Class of 1988

Class Total: $1,875.00No. in Class: 43Participation: 12%Associates

John C. BovayEnrichment Society

Jane D. CallahanJohn A. MoranEdward E. Wollman

Class of 1989

Class Total: $550.00No. in Class: 63Participation: 6%Enrichment Society

Allen BuckleyCharles L. Cooper, Jr.James W. ForsythJohn E. Lawlor III

Class of 1990

Class Total: $1,000.00No. in Class: 52Participation: 12%Enrichment Society

William L. CurryClay H. DavisDon E. GoebelElizabeth Greaton-StephanyCaroline E. KasperJonathan H. Nason

Class of 1991

Class Total: $1,500.00No. in Class: 62Participation: 8%Enrichment Society

Wayne A. HamiltonTodd A. HaussMichael G. LittleCharles PillitteriDaniel H. Waters, Jr.

Class of 1993

Class Total: $2,100.00No. in Class: 57Participation: 9%Trusler Society

Wilton B. HymanEnrichment Society

Elizabeth A. CarrieTance E. RobertsDouglas A. SmithWilliam P. Zox

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“I love exploring the natural envi-

ronment and reconnecting with the

purpose of the important environ-

mental work we do. I am a certified

scuba diver that loves sea turtles but

is afraid of sharks – not a good

combination since they are often

in the same good scuba locations.

I once had a close call when a bull

shark swam over my head, but I was

too busy watching some frolicking

lobsters on the bottom to have a

heart attack.”

Professor Stein is a leading authority on energy law, recently presented a policy seminar to lawmakers from across the nation.

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Class of 1994

Class Total: $4,800.00No. in Class: 63Participation: 10%Trusler Society

Gary W. HustonDonna L. LonghouseArnold P. MayEnrichment Society

David A. BrennenMary P. WilliamsonCamille L. Worsnop

Class of 1995

Class Total: $882.00No. in Class: 70Participation: 6%Enrichment Society

Gregory A. ByronBruce R. JacobFrank M. Talbot IIKevin M. Yamamoto

Class of 1996

Class Total: $225.00No. in Class: 69Participation: 4%Enrichment Society

Lamont C. LooPeter A. Rivellini

Class of 1997

Class Total: $135.00No. in Class: 53Participation: 6%Enrichment Society

Keith M. Olivia

Class of 1998

Class Total: $900.00No. in Class: 69Participation: 7%Enrichment Society

Matthew J. AhearnAndrew T. HuberCristin C. KeaneDan C. Young

Class of 1999

Class Total: $550.00No. in Class: 45Participation: 7%Enrichment Society

Joseph M. DepewEdward L. TaylorE. John Wagner II

Class of 2000

Class Total: $4,100.00No. in Class: 64Participation: 6%Trusler Society

Diego L. RestrepoEnrichment Society

Bradley T. BordenChristina V. LockwoodBrenden S. Moriarty

Class of 2001

Class Total: $312.00No. in Class: 64Participation: 5%Enrichment Society

Alton D. BainKathleen M. McRoberts

Class of 2002

Class Total: $5,650.00No. in Class: 63Participation: 10%Partners

Heath K. DedmondStacy L. KenyonEnrichment Society

Elena KaplanSteven D. LearKerry A. RyanRose K. Wilson

Class of 2003

Class Total: $3,570.00No. in Class: 80Participation: 5%Partners

Terrence T. DariotisTrusler Society

Salvatore BochicchioEnrichment Society

Telly J. MeierAbrahm W. Smith

Class of 2004

Class Total: $660.00No. in Class: 79Participation: 6%Enrichment Society

Alexander D. DeVitisAdam N. FrischBarry D. Lapides

Class of 2005

Class Total: $550.00No. in Class: 78Participation: 6%Enrichment Society

Thomas B. R. Christenson IIErin E. Houck-TollShawn M. Richter

Class of 2006

Class Total: $600.00No. in Class: 73Participation: 4%Enrichment Society

Laura A. Fouraker-GardnerYong PengPhyllis C. Smith

Class of 2007

Class Total: $150.00No. in Class: 86Participation: 2%Enrichment Society

Jolyon D. Acosta

Class of 2008

Class Total: $2,030.08No. in Class: 84Participation: 11%Enrichment Society

Scott A. BowmanDavid D. DuncanDavid F. PresslyRicardo SarmientoKathleen A. SmithJoseph R. Worst

Class of 2009

Class Total: $1,200.00No. in Class: 91Participation: 7%Enrichment Society

Andrew R. ComiterElizabeth A. FaistLaura C. Pyne

Class of 2010

Class Total: $565.00No. in Class: 110Participation: 5%Enrichment Society

Dana M. ApfelbaumMitchell W. GoldbergNicolas O. Procopio

Class of 2011

Class Total: $300.00No. in Class: 96Participation: 2%Enrichment Society

Robert J. BraxtonWilliam G. Smith

Class of 2012

Class Total: $400.00No. in Class: 101Participation: 2%Enrichment Society

Elizabeth M. NelsonJames A. Nelson, Jr.

Class of 2013

Class Total: $612.00No. in Class: 113Participation: 4%Enrichment Society

Elizabeth A. BowersBryan S. KesslerAdam J. Smith

Class of 2014

Class Total: $575.00No. in Class: 97Participation: 4%Enrichment Society

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Class Total: $5,000.00No. in Class: 12Participation: 8%Founders Society - silver

Jorge F. Ramirez

Class of 2011

Class Total: $150.00No. in Class: 12Participation: 8%Enrichment Society

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Class of 2012

Class Total: $100.00No. in Class: 15Participation: 7%Enrichment Society

Pablo J. Rivera-Rosario

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The Florida Everglades are fac-ing an extreme water shortage and the most viable solution to

the problem entails the creation of mas-sive storage areas designed to hold water during times of drought, according to an interdisciplinary report produced by The Water Institute at the University of Florida.

UF Law is out front trying to solve this problem as Professor Mary Jane Angelo (JD 87) is one of the authors of the report compiled at the request of the Florida Legislature.

“One of the big messages from the re-port is that to accomplish the goals there needs to be an extremely large amount of additional storage of water,” Angelo said. “It could be accomplished in different ways, but it needs to be huge.”

The Florida Senate asked UF to con-vene a group to work on this particular issue.

“Options to Reduce High Volume Freshwater Flows to the St. Lucie and Caloosahatchee Estuaries and Move More Water from Lake Okeechobee to

the Southern Everglades” was commis-sioned to look at the options available to solve the water shortage and determine the pros and cons of each option.

The water shortage facing the Ev-erglades is largely a manmade problem due to previous work done to drain wa-ter from Lake Okeechobee and the local basins into the estuaries on the east and west coast.

“The Everglades itself is not getting enough water, in part because this water is being diverted to the coasts,” Angelo said. “The whole system is ditched and diked and very controlled. The whole ini-tial point of getting this fresh water out to the estuaries is now a negative because it’s causing environmental problems, which leads to economic problems.”

Angelo was joined by Water Insti-tute Director Wendy Graham, School of Natural Resources and Environment Di-rector Thomas Frazer, Wildlife Ecology and Conversation Research Professor Peter Frederick, Florida Sea Grant Di-rector Karl Havens, and Soil and Water Science Graduate Research Professor K.

Ramesh Reddy. As the legal mind on the team, Angelo was tasked with research-ing the legal constraints that might pro-hibit or present significant challenges to pursuing specific options. For example, the government specifies what water can be drained into the Everglades. Angelo made sure that none of the proposed so-lutions ran afoul of these outstanding rules or regulations.

The report evaluates the available options including the purchase of land owned by the United States Sugar Cor-poration in between Lake Okeechobee and the Everglades.

The U.S. Sugar land was available for purchase after Florida had previ-ously bought land from the corporation in 2010. After that purchase, Florida was given an option to acquire this extra land, roughly 46,000 acres, at a later date. However, the option expired in October.

“The report said that was something the state should consider,” Angelo said. “We didn’t recommend that the state had to buy it, but because of the limited window and we knew we needed land for

Professor analyzes fixes to drought-threatened ecosystem

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storage somewhere in this area, it (was) an obvious place to look.”

Angelo was the only UF Law profes-sor to contribute to the report, but she is one of several water-law experts on the environmental law faculty.

Christine Klein is a nationally known water law schol-ar. Her recent book, co-authored with Sandra Beth Zellmer, is Mis-sissippi River Tragedies: A Century of Unnatural Disaster, and is pub-lished by NYU Press.

“This report provides an invalu-able guide to professionals interested in restoring flows to the Southern Ev-erglades,” Klein said. “One of its great strengths is that it was written by a team that is both interdisciplinary and inde-pendent – as such, it should carry great weight.”

The water shortage faced by the Ev-erglades is of great importance to UF Law professor and Center for Govern-mental Responsibility member Richard

Hamann (JD 76). He grew up in South Florida and spent a great deal of his childhood in Big Cypress of the Ever-glades. Since then, he has gone on to work under former UF Law Dean Frank E. Maloney, who authored the Florida Water Resources Act of 1972. Hamann

has also served as a board member for the Everglades Law Center and took part in litigation on behalf of the Everglades.

While the government is currently working on the Central Everglades Planning Project, which will allow the state to treat the water currently moving south to meet water quality standards, Hamann stresses that more action is needed as soon as possible.

“There’s already a tremendous amount of damage that has been

caused,” Hamann said. “What happens is, when you dry out these areas, you lose the organic soils. They become car-bon dioxide, with all of those problems. Then it takes a long, long time to rebuild them. That’s what has happened already. We need to stop that and reverse it as

fast as possible.”In addition to

the loss of organic soils, the water loss in the Everglades has led to a host of other problems. Bird and fish popu-

lations have continued to decline and will soon be unable to recover. The abil-ity to cope with sea level rise has also been compromised with the lack of fresh water flowing through the Everglades.

To stop these environmental impacts extra water storage is necessary. With the expiration of the U.S. Sugar option, that storage will have to be found else-where.

Read the report at http://bit.ly/1OBNq5u.

“This report provides an invaluable guide to professionals interested in restoring

flows to the Southern Everglades.”—UF LAW PROFESSOR CHRISTINE KLEIN

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A S T H E C O N F I D E N C E S and formulas that confer competitive advantage in the marketplace, trade secrets are important to companies of all sizes. Companies must consider how to regulate these secrets, what the appropriate rights and regulations are and how to interact with employees, oth-er businesses and vendors to protect this information. With the boom of technology, companies are now doing business on a global scale, where there are tremendous variations of trade-secret laws. The global market brings implications for U.S. employers who have op-erations in more than one country.

UF Law Professor Elizabeth Rowe has co-authored Trade Secrecy and International transactions: Law and Practice to help lawyers understand what to expect in other countries and how to approach trade secret protection and enforcement when they are advising clients or doing business outside of the U.S.

“The book is an attempt to make this easier to understand and concise,” said Rowe, who is Feldman Gale Term Professor in Intellectual Property Law, UF Research Foundation Professor and director of UF Law’s Program in Intellectual Property Law. “I hope it will be a very handy reference for lawyers and for businesses and students.”

This is Rowe’s fourth published book in three years, including the first and only case book on trade secrets in circulation, according to UF Law reference librarian and adjunct professor Avery Le (JD 11). During this time Rowe has continued to publish

scholarly articles and teach intellectual property law at UF.

“I think that what attracts me most (to intellectual property) is the fact that most of the issues are at the cutting edge,” Rowe said. “They’re very current and they implicate not just law but business as well as everyday life for most people.”

Co-authored with Hamline University School of Law Professor Sharon K. Sandeen, the first half of the book discusses the Uniform Trade Secrets Act that 48 of 50 states have adopted. The act serves as the foundation for what can be a trade secret and what can be considered trade secret misappropriation in the U.S. Rowe said U.S. trade secret law serves as a model in most countries to protect confidential and undisclosed information but tremendous variations remain.

“If you want to license and contract out with other businesses, there is a host of trade secret issues that could arise from that if you don’t know what issues to look out for in that country, in terms of dealing with employees, confidentiality agreements, noncompetition agreements, remedies and criminal penalties, if there are any,” Rowe said.

After laying the groundwork of the trade secret laws in the U.S., the book gives a comparative view of those of the United Kingdoms, Canada, Brazil, India, China, Japan and Mexico, dedicating a section to each country.

“We considered which countries

American businesses are more likely to be doing business with and we also wanted a mix of civil law and common law countries,” Rowe said. The countries also cover the regions representing North America, South America, Europe and Asia.

Each section begins with an overview of the system of law in a country, discussing whether it’s civil or common and how the court system operates. It talks about the boundaries of trade-secret protections and what are considered trade secrets under law. This is followed by a discussion on trade secrets and employment relationships, relationships with other businesses, criminal consequences and how trade-secret disputes are litigated.

“We gave a lot of thought to the organization of the book so that we picked the issues that are most likely to arise in certain circumstances,” Rowe said. “It

follows the same structure for each country so that you can more readily address each of these without feeling overwhelmed. What ends up in the book is the most relevant and concise information that one would want to know.”

“There haven’t been many things published on trade secret law and issues until the last five years so this is a phenomenal contribution,” said Le. Le should

know since she helped compile the resources for Rowe during the writing process. “It’s a good resource for institutions, private law firms, those practicing intellectual property and scholars.”

Rowe consulted with lawyers practicing in intellectual property and trade secrets during the two-year writing process to verify that she hadn’t missed or misinterpreted anything.

“I wanted to make sure what we represent is really accurate,” Rowe said.

Le called Rowe a pioneer in trade secrets law.

“There are not a lot of publications out there on this topic, and she is creating resources for other researchers and practitioners on specific issues that arise both in the U.S. and in other countries,” Le said.

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ELIZABETH A. ROWESHARON K. SANDEEN

ELGAR INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAW AND PRACTICE

TRADE SECR ECY AND

INTER NATIONAL TRANSACTIONS

L AW AND PRACTICE

Rowe presents global trade-secret

law in U.S. legal context

Book of Secrets

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Research ReportA sampling of the wide-ranging scholarly articles and books UF Law professors are producing

“Through increasing the resilience and psycho-social development of children of incarcerated parents, maintaining family ties during the period of incarceration, and facilitating the suc-cessful return of previ-ously incarcerated youth into their communities, the Baby Elmo Program provides promise to the incarcerated teen parent struggling to establish his identity and make his way in the world for himself and his family.”

THOMAS ANKERSEN Legal Skills Professor; Director, UF Conservation Clinic

“Turtles Without Borders: The International and Domestic Law Basis for the Shared Conservation, Management, and Use of Sea Turtles in Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama” (with Gabriela Stocks, Franklin Paniagua, and Sekita Grant), 18 J. of Int’l Wildlife L. & Pol’y 1 (2015)

“These economic, social and political drivers of sea turtle policy have led the three countries to different strategies for sea turtle conservation and management, reflected in the legal regime that applies to each country. Efforts have been

taken in the past to achieve greater levels of transnational cooperation through international agreements, with limited success.”

SHANI KING

Professor of Law; Director, Center on Children and Families

“Cost-effective Juvenile Justice Reform: Lessons From the Just Beginning ‘Baby Elmo’ Teen Parenting Program” (with Rachel Barr & Jennifer Woolard), 93 N.C.L. Rev. 1381 (2015)

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“While enforce-ment remains es-sential and fines obviously have an important role to play, the real debate should be about how to change norma-tive societal val-ues, so that anti-trust compliance is on the agenda not because of a fear of enforce-ment, but rather because ethical and compliant business is ‘the right thing to do.’”

“A juvenile justice sys-tem dedicated to chil-dren’s well-being and public safety would be accountable for achiev-ing those goals by means that respect the humanity of all youth and contribute to the humanity of us all.”

NANCY DOWD

David H. Levin Chair in Family Law; Emeritus Director, Center on Children and Families

Editor, A New Juvenile Justice System: Total Reform for a Broken System (NYU Press, 2015)

“The power to divide the unit of prosecution entails the power to impose exces-sive punish-ments. Where the government arbitrarily carves up a single course of con-duct into multi-ple offenses in order to obtain multiple punish-ments, criminal offenders are often punished well beyond their desert.”

JOHN STINNEFORD

Professor of Law; Assistant Director, Criminal Justice Center

“Dividing Crime, Multiplying Punishments,” 48 U.C. Davis L. Rev. 1955 (2015)

D. DANIEL SOKOL

Professor of Law

“Rethinking Compliance” (with Anne Riley), 3 J. of Antitrust Enforcement 31 (2015)

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Faculty in the News

“If you divorce yourself from thinking about who it is and just say, ‘Somebody had tape of sexual intercourse that they’d intended to be private, which somebody else published,’ that would of course be offensive.”

“This means that they can take advantage of the many rights and privileges afforded to any other legally married couple. And, to some extent, their financial, invest-ing, retirement- and estate-planning concerns will mirror those of opposite-sex married couples.”

“The public awakening to issues of injustice in the criminal process could heighten sup-port for comprehensive reforms needed to safeguard the constitutional rights and dig-nity of Americans charged with crimes.”

“If we’re going to have police in schools, they need to receive more training, they need to under-stand adolescent behavior better, they have to un-derstand how to de-escalate situa-tions better, they need to under-stand how a stu-dent thinks, and really the serious consequences (of) arresting and incarcerating a juvenile.”

JON MILLS

Professor of Law; Dean Emeritus; Director, Center for Governmental Responsibility

“Gawker’s latest privacy scandal poses dilemma in $100m Hulk Hogan lawsuit” (July 22, 2015, The Guardian)

DARREN HUTCHINSON Professor of Law; Stephen C. O’Connell Chair

“There’s never been a better time for bail reform” (July 20, 2015, The Washington Post, Op-Ed)

JASON NANCE

Associate Professor of Law; Associate Director, Center on Children and Families

“Cops in schools: Way to rebuild community trust in law enforcement?” (Aug. 13, 2015, Christian Science Monitor)

“The idea of saying every-thing matters undercuts the value and point of highlight-ing black life as something wor-thy of concern.”

LEE-FORD TRITT

Professor of Law; Director, Center for Estate Planning; Director, Estates and Trusts Practice Certificate Program; Associate Director, Center on Children and Families

“All things financial now the same for same-sex married couples” (June 26, 2015, USA Today)

KATHERYN RUSSELL-BROWN

Chesterfield Smith Professor of Law; Director, Center for the Study of Race and Race Relations; Assistant Director, Criminal Justice Center

“If ‘All lives matter’ is politically toxic, can anyone build a coalition?” (July 23, 2015, McClatchy DC)

Navy lieutenant Kevin Edwards is a 2L who expects to begin his le-gal career in the Judge Advocate General Corps and participates

in trial team. Dion Bass, a 2L Air Force vet-eran angling for a job as a Navy Jag, takes part in law school organization and civic ac-tivities. Both go to Florida’s best law school where professors convey a broad, deep foun-dation of legal knowledge.

As its student-veteran population grows, Edwards and Bass have hit upon a few of the reasons UF Law is a natural home

A Solid BaseFuture military lawyers get top-shelf education from UF Law

for future JAGs. Students who take advantage of the professors, clubs and academic excel-lence, note the impact on JAG prospects, and on their opportunities in the legal profession after the JAG Corps.

“One of the most important things UF has given me so far is the professional net-working opportunities I have had through organizations,” Edwards said. “And as a member of trial team, I will get the oppor-tunity to sharpen my court room advocacy skills before I go into a very heavy court-room-oriented career such as a JAG.”

According to Edwards, UF is preparing students like himself by ensuring they get the basis of the knowledge needed before they begin their legal careers as JAGs.

“At the same time, I am getting an oppor-tunity to see what part of the law I am par-ticularly interested in for my future after my JAG career,” Edwards said.

Veteran numbers at UF Law began rising as Monique Wilson (JD 15) lobbied success-fully for a 2014 state law allowing non-resident veterans living in Florida to pay in-state tuition, saving some veterans thousands each semester. Wilson was one of only three veterans in the class of 2015. Six are scheduled to graduate in 2016, 15 are set to graduate in 2017 and eight are enrolled as 1Ls, according to data provided by the UF Law Admissions Office.

Christopher Vallandingham, a JAG of-ficer in the U.S. Army Reserve (JD 00) who serves as head of collections at the Legal In-formation Center at UF Law, spun a scenario illustrating the role of JAGs in the field:

***At an Air Force Reserve base a task force

is responding to a simulated biological weapons attack in the Boston metropolitan area. How to evacuate casualties and prevent the threat from spreading are foremost on the minds of the sol-

diers. All are willing to do what it takes to save lives and protect against additional attacks. But when facing the harsh realities of a terrorist at-tack, what are the limits to what the U.S. Army can demand of its soldiers? Must commanders comply with Occupational Safety and Health Administration regulations when ordering ser-vice members into contaminated areas? Can soldiers help local officials enforce quarantines? Can the task force use intelligence assets to con-duct reconnaissance missions in affected areas?

***These are the type of legal issues JAGs

can face during operations conducted within the United States, Vallandingham said. But in truth, their jobs are much broader. Judge advocates serve as the “jack of all trades” law-yers, their decisions affecting not only indi-vidual clients, but the country as a whole. In general, judge advocates practice in six main areas: military justice, administrative law, claims, operational law, contract and fiscal law and legal assistance.

Each requires a thorough understanding of all aspects of state, federal and military law.

“The first person you work with may have a problem in an area of law that you’re not comfortable with and you have to learn to roll with the punches,” Vallandingham said. “The first time I did a hearing, the chief of military justice handed me a packet and I had five min-utes to look it over before I went before a board to argue the government’s position. That gives you experience unlike a large law firm where you might not be in a court room arguing mo-tions or conducting trials for several years.”

JAG officers are considered officers first and lawyers second. Before beginning their legal duties, they undergo basic military training for six weeks and then attend a Judge Advocate Basic Officer Course where they learn the basics of military law.

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Much of the material covered at the JAG school will already be familiar to UF Law grads, including the formation of contracts, protections against unreason-able searches and seizures, and basic estate planning, Vallandingham said. But the courses at the JAG school will put these topics in the context of the U.S. military. He said JAGs are exposed to a wide range of practice areas and usually do not spe-cialize in one area during the initial phases of their JAG career.

UF Law supports students interested in joining the JAG Corps by providing a top legal education and delivering opportuni-ties for public service and leadership expe-rience.

“The focus (of the military) is really on public service and serving the greater good and there are ways to demonstrate that apart from just grades or having been in the re-serves,” said Erin Carr, assistant director of career development. “We have lots of great resources, (it’s) just a matter of students reaching out to them.”

Campus organizations like the Military Law Student Association try to emphasize public responsibilities and foster students’ military interests by providing informa-tion, resources and opportunities for civic involvement. The association, led by Ma-rine Corps Capt. Jared Burns, brings guest speakers, recruiters and officers to campus to provide advice and insight to students in and out of the organization. Many of the members have active duty experience or have interned at a JAG office during the summer.

Bass is an Air Force veteran applying for a job in the Navy JAG. He serves as commu-nity service chair for the Black Law Student Association, is an ambassador for the Intro-duction to Law School and the Profession program, a member of the Military Law Student So-ciety and a student panelist for the Center for Career Develop-ment. So he understands what the military calls the “whole-person concept” – students who not only study, but also take ac-tive roles in their communities.

“I’ve learned grades are im-portant, but it’s ultimately you as a person who determines how successful you are with your career,” Bass said. “When I apply for internships, I’m able to give (interviewers) real world experience and explain how the skills that I have can translate into a benefit for their organization.”

Networking extends beyond joining campus organizations. Officers like Valland-ingham and Burns are willing to speak with interested students on campus. Through Carr, students can reach out to recruiters and UF Law alumni who have served.

This requires judge advocates to be adaptable, work well with others and under-stand a wide variety of practice areas as they work on issues that affect military justice,

family law, environmental law, civil litigation, criminal law, ad-miralty and maritime law, laws of armed conflict and humanitarian and refugee law. Because of the level of responsibility JAGs hold as officers, the recruitment pro-cess is selective. Air Force JAG recruitment in the entire South-east region – including Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, North Caro-lina and South Carolina - will fill only two spots this year.

“It’s not a 9 to 5 job. We expect a lot from our JAGs,” said Vallandingham. “We’re look-ing for somebody that’s done more than just gone to school and hit the books. People who have done volunteer work, who have been in leadership positions in clubs and associations. People who have experience working with a wide variety of people, in-cluding those from foreign cultures. People who are committed to staying mentally and physically fit.”

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LEGAL ASSISTANCE: Judge advocates help soldiers with legal issues, which can include problems with landlords, creditors, child support and consumer fraud. They help sol-diers prepare for overseas deployment by drafting wills, powers of attorney, and ensuring that soldiers are aware of protections afforded to them under the Service Members Civil Relief Act.

PROSECUTION: Similar to the role of a state attorney, judge advocates represent the U.S. Military in courts-martial. These cases brought before courts-martial involve violations of the Uniform Code of Military Justice.

ADVISER: Judge advocates provide counsel to military commanders. On a military in-stallation, advocates ensure activities on the installation, whether contracts to provide food services or the hiring and firing of civilian employees, are complying with state, federal and military laws and regulations. The position is analogous to a city attorney who advises the mayor. In a deployed environment, judge advocates might advise commanders on rules of engagement, the treatment of detainees, or the use of funds to pay for projects to help the local population.

DEFENSE: Judge advocates represent service members at administrative separation boards, boards of inquiry and courts-martial. They also provide advice on other adverse ac-tions such as letters of reprimand, financial penalties for damage to military property and bars to re-enlistment.

STUDENT PROGRAM: This program allows law stu-dents to apply and enlist in the reserve during law school. If selected, following graduation and passage of the bar exam, students serve on active duty for four years. The process includes a standard application, endorsement letters and interviews. This is the largest and most common recruiting program.

LAWYER PROGRAM: Candidates may apply who have first served at least two to 10 years as active duty per-sonnel before starting the application process. This program is designed for licensed attorneys who wish to be appointed directly into the JAG Corps or enlisted military personnel who wish to earn a juris doctor.

LAW EDUCATION PROGRAM: Candidates may apply who have first served two to six years as an active duty officer before starting the application process. This program is designed for current military officers who wish to enter law school, get their juris doctors and serve as JAGs.

Judge advocate roles How to enter JAG

Dion Bass is a 2L

Air Force veteran

aiming for a JAG

position upon

graduation.

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FEBRUARY 3

Center for the Study of Race and Race Relations Spring LectureGeorgetown University Law Professor Paul ButlerChesterfield Smith Ceremonial Classroom, HOL 180

FEBRUARY 5

Nelson SymposiumThank You SCOTUS! What Do We Do Now About Signage, Housing Discrimination, Cell Towers and Takings?Hilton UF Conference Center

FEBRUARY 11-13

Public Interest Environmental Conference“Five Oceans, One Earth”UF Law Campus

FEBRUARY 15

Marshall M. Criser Distinguished Lecture SeriesUC Irvine Dean Erwin ChemerinskyUF Law Campus

FEBRUARY 17

Panel on Solitary Confinement of Juveniles UF Law Campus

MARCH 16

Weyrauch Distinguished Lecture in Family LawFamily Law Scholar Dorothy RobertsUF Law Campus

MARCH 31

E-Discovery ConferenceMartin H. Levin Advocacy Center

MARCH 30 – APRIL 1

Florida Tax InstituteTampa Marriott Waterside