Admitted
1985, Florida; U.S. District Court, Northern, Southern and Middle Districts of Florida; U.S. Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit; U.S. Supreme Court; U.S. District Court, District of Arkansas; 1996, U.S. District Court, Southern District of Alabama
Law School
University of Florida, J.D., with honors, 1985
Law School Graduation Year
1985
College
Vassar College, A.B., Philosophy, 1979
Memberships
Escambia-Santa Rosa and American Bar Associations; The Florida Bar (Chair, 1989-1991 and Member, 1986-1989, Student Education and Admissions Committee; Member, 1994-1999 and Vice Chair, 1999-2000, Professionalism Committee); The Association of Trial Lawyers of America; Florida Trial Lawyers Association.
Biographical
Order of the Coif; Phi Kappa Phi. Recipient, American Jurisprudence Book Award in Constitutional Law; First District Pro Bono Award, The Florida Bar, 1999. Editor, University of Florida Law Review, 1984-1985. Law Clerk to Hon. William Terrell Hodges, U.S. District Court, Middle District of Florida, 1985-1987. Author: Comment, 36 University of Florida L. Rev., 318, 1984; Afterword, Special Issue On Clinical Education, Florida Bar Journal, July 1991. Adjunct Professor, Products Liability, Pensacola Junior College. Visiting Instructor, Division of Criminal Justice and Legal Studies, University of West Florida, 1999—. (Certified as a Civil Trial Specialist by the National Board of Trial Advocacy) (Board Certified Civil Trial and Business Litigation Lawyer, Florida Bar Board of Legal Specialization and Education)