2017 Pro Bono Awards Booklet

2017

Presented by The Chief Justice

The Tobias Simon Pro Bono Service

Award

Distinguished Judicial Service Award

Distinguished Federal Judicial Service

Award

Voluntary Bar Association

Pro Bono Service Award

Law Firm Commendation

Presented by

The Florida Bar President

The Florida Bar President’s

Pro Bono Service Awards

Presented by

The Florida Bar Young Lawyers

Division President

Young Lawyers Division

Pro Bono Service Award

Justices of

The Supreme Court of Florida

The Honorable Jorge Labarga

Chief Justice

The Honorable Barbara J. Pariente

The Honorable R. Fred Lewis

The Honorable Peggy A. Quince

The Honorable Charles T. Canady

The Honorable Ricky Polston

The Honorable C. Alan Lawson

2016 - 2017

Ofﬁcers of The Florida Bar

William J. Schiﬁno, Jr., President

Michael J. Higer, President-elect

John F. Harkness, Jr., Executive Director

TOBIAS SIMON

(1929 - 1982)

“He opposed capital punishment, pressed for criminal

reform, fought to improve the jurisdiction of the

Florida Supreme Court, taught scintillating law

school classes and wrote books on appellate review.

He made enemies doing so — but also a lot of friends.”

In those few words of tribute, Roberta Simon summed

up much of her illustrious father’s career that ended

with his death from cancer at age 52, on Feb. 25, 1982.

Toby Simon was well-known throughout Florida

and beyond as a tireless civil rights attorney,

a crusader for prison reform, and an appellate

authority. During his 30 years of law practice, he

represented such divergent interests as major land

developers, Communists, Nazis, teachers’ unions, and

governmental agencies. In between causes there were

intervals as a visiting professor at the Florida State

University College of Law and at Nova Southeastern

University’s Shepard Broad Law Center. He died

while serving as a representative of his fellow 11th

Judicial Circuit lawyers on The Florida Bar’s Board

of Governors.

He counted Martin Luther King Jr. among his clients,

having provided legal counsel for King during the

1960 civil rights marches in Florida and throughout

the Deep South.

“He defended everyone,” his daughter added in

tribute. “He believed that every client, especially the

underdog, deserves a competent lawyer.” Toby Simon’s

spirit lives on in the chief justice’s award that bears

his name and honors those other Florida lawyers who

have unselﬁshly carried on his work.

THE TOBIAS SIMON PRO BONO

SERVICE AWARD

Presented by the Chief Justice

The Tobias Simon Pro Bono Service Award com-

memorates Miami civil rights lawyer Tobias Simon,

who died in February 1982. It is intended to encour-

age and recognize extraordinary contributions by

Florida lawyers in making legal services available to

persons who otherwise could not afford them, and to

focus public awareness on the substantial voluntary

services rendered by Florida lawyers in this area.

The award was created in 1982 and is believed to

be the ﬁrst of its kind in the country conferring

recognition by a state’s highest court on a private

lawyer for voluntary, free legal services to the poor.

A permanent plaque listing the names of all award

recipients is displayed in the lawyers’ lounge of the

Florida Supreme Court Building in Tallahassee.

2017 RECIPIENT

Mark Olive

Tallahassee

t was March of 1770, and British soldiers faced

charges of murder in the killing of ﬁve people

in the Boston Massacre. A more unpopular as-

signment for a defense attorney is hard to imagine,

but future president John Adams stepped forward,

despite possible threats to himself and his family, to

make sure that the soldiers received equal justice

and a fair trial.

That American tradition of justice for all is embodied

in the 21st century by Mark Olive, who has devoted

himself to an exhausting, tedious and unpopular

cause: the defense of death row inmates. He is being

honored for his exemplary pro bono assistance to

his death row clients and the uncompensated legal

assistance he has given to lawyers handling death

penalty cases in Florida and throughout the country.

Olive, a 1977 graduate of the University of Tennessee

College of Law, is an attorney in private practice in

Tallahassee. He came to Florida in 1985 at a time of

crisis, with eight executions the previous year and

a backlog of post-conviction death penalty cases. He

directed the Volunteer Lawyers’ Resource Center of

Florida, Inc., which was funded by The Florida Bar

to recruit and provide support and assistance to pri-

vate counsel who represent indigent death-sentenced

individuals on a pro bono basis in post-conviction

proceedings.

The resource center was the ﬁrst of its kind in the na-

tion, but it was so successful that other states adopted

the concept, and Olive later headed similar centers

in both Georgia and Virginia.

Mark Olive’s hand can be seen in many important

death penalty cases. In Hall v. Florida, which chal-

lenged Florida’s rule on execution of the intellectu-

ally disabled, he was part of the defense team before

the U.S. Supreme Court and, on remand, the Florida

Supreme Court. Olive also was on a team that pre-

pared briefs and arguments for Atkins v. Virginia,

in which the high court said executing people with

intellectual disabilities is cruel and unusual punish-

ment. He devoted substantial pro bono time for the

team in Hurst v. Florida, in which the U.S. Supreme

Court held that Florida’s method of sentencing in

capital cases was unconstitutional. Most recently, he

became one of two pro bono counsel assisting Richard

Glossip in Oklahoma. Glossip’s case raised questions

ﬁrst about Oklahoma’s method of execution and then

about his innocence.

The list goes on.

On one U.S. Supreme Court case alone, Herrera v.

Collins, which did not prevent the execution of Leonel

Herrera in Texas, Olive spent well over 1,200 hours.

Nominator Sandy D’Alemberte – a previous winner

of the Tobias Simon Award – estimates that Olive

has donated about 10,000 hours of pro bono service.

Anthony Amsterdam, a law professor emeritus at New

York University and another of Olive’s nominators,

said: “As you know, I worked extensively with Toby

Simon and loved the man. No one who was blessed

with Toby’s companionship would be arrogant enough

to guess what he would say on any subject. But I am

as sure as I can be of anything relating to that mar-

velous free spirit harnessed only by his dedication

to the cause of freedom, that Toby would be proud to

see Mark Olive honored with the award that bears

his name.”

THE DISTINGUISHED

JUDICIAL SERVICE AWARD

Presented by the Chief Justice

A judge is in a unique position to contribute to the

improvement of the law, the legal system and the

administration of justice. The support of pro bono

services improves the judicial system as a whole.

This award is for outstanding and sustained service

to the public, especially as it relates to support of pro

bono legal services.

2017 RECIPIENT

Honorable Virginia Baker Norton

Administrative Judge, Civil Division

Fourth Judicial Circuit

here’s a very good reason that Virginia Bak-

er Norton is being honored with the Distin-

guished Judicial Service Award. “Virginia

Norton suffers from an afﬂiction which I do not be-

lieve she will ever overcome,” said one of her nomi-

nators. “She is simply unable to say ‘no’ to people

who ask for help.”

That “afﬂiction” led Judge Norton to the program

with which she is most identiﬁed: The DAWN (De-

veloping Adults with Necessary Skills) program at

the Duval County Jail. The program, which gives

inmates vocational training and life skills and helps

them earn a GED, was founded by Richard McKis-

sick nearly 20 years ago. Almost from the moment

Norton took the bench in January 2009, McKissick

was grooming her to carry on his work with DAWN.

The day before McKissick died at the age of 90 on

Jan. 1, 2016, he and Norton had a bedside meeting to

discuss plans for DAWN for the next week.

Norton has worked with inmates in the jail’s one-

room schoolhouse, reviewing topics from job strate-

gies to patriotism. She even has worked one-on-one

with students whom she has sentenced to the pro-

gram. Now Norton – who has a gift of being collabor-

ative yet often is called the “Board of One of DAWN”

– is working with the city of Jacksonville and the

sheriff’s ofﬁce to expand the program. She is known

for repeating a mantra she attributes to McKissick:

“You can do better than this, and I am going to help

you do better than this.”

Norton took her ﬁrst pro bono case as a new associ-

ate fresh out of law school. It was a routine case of

trying to keep a woman’s electric power from being

turned off, but in talking with the woman, Norton

saw the symptoms of an abusive relationship. That

insight led Norton to seek social services for the

woman and help her ﬁnd a new, safe place to live.

Norton has been an active participant and leader

in Jacksonville Legal Aid since then. In 2005, as

Florida grappled with the painful dispute over the

life and death of Terry Schiavo, Norton helped found

the Living Will Program of Jacksonville Legal Aid.

The program, with clinics in low-income and elderly

housing communities, continues today.

Norton is the “go to” person in Duval County when

a bar association needs a judge to assist with a CLE

program or encourage pro bono legal service. She

regularly takes part in One Campaign pro bono re-

cruitment efforts and, in 2016, was one of the judges

extending a personal thank-you to lawyers at the

Jacksonville Bar Association’s ﬁrst “Presentation of

the Pins” pro bono recognition luncheon.

The judge also makes time for a range of other activ-

ities, such as taking a high school intern every sum-

mer, coaching a mock trial team and serving on the

Fourth Judicial Circuit Pro Bono Committee. She

is a board member of several community organiza-

tions, and last May she completed her L.L.M. in judi-

cial studies at Duke, in addition to be chosen editor-

in-chief of the fall 2016 issue of the Duke University

School of Law’s “Judicature” magazine.

“Judge Norton is a pillar of grace and calm who does

not shy away from any challenge or controversy,”

said Judge Mark H. Mahon, chief judge of the Fourth

Circuit.

Norton earned her J.D. in 1997 from the University

of Florida Levin College of Law.

THE DISTINGUISHED

FEDERAL JUDICIAL SERVICE

AWARD

Presented by the Chief Justice

The purpose of the Chief Justice’s Distinguished

Federal Judicial Service Award is to recognize an

active or retired federal judge for outstanding and

sustained service to the public, whether through legal

or civic service or a combination of them, especially

as it relates to the support of pro bono legal services.

The award is given to a judge who exempliﬁes the

ideals embodied in the Code of Conduct for United

States Judges, furthering the goals of equal justice

under the law and encouraging pro bono service by

Florida lawyers.

2017 RECIPIENT

Honorable Laurel Myerson Isicoff

United States Bankruptcy Court

Southern District of Florida

he Hon. Laurel Myerson Isicoff, chief judge

of the United States Bankruptcy Court of

the Southern District of Florida, has been a

leader in pro bono representation, diversity, inclu-

sion and professionalism throughout her 35-year

legal career.

Isicoff is a native New Yorker who came to Florida

to ﬁnish her law degree, which she earned from the

University of Miami School of Law in 1982. She was

in private practice from 1984 to 2006, and while

practicing as a bankruptcy lawyer, she served a year

as president of the Bankruptcy Bar Association of

the Southern District of Florida and was the Pro

Bono Task Force chair from 2000 to 2006. As presi-

dent of that bar association, she helped form the

Bankruptcy Bar Foundation to provide ﬁnancial

support for the bar’s pro bono program.

“I am passionate about law being a vehicle to help

people,” Isicoff said. “And I continue even though,

now that I am a judge and can no longer do pro bono

work anymore, I now have to help from a different

angle.”

Isicoff was sworn in as the ﬁrst female bankruptcy

judge in the Southern District of Florida in 2006,

and she spoke of the importance of pro bono work

in her acceptance speech. Since then, she has used

her endless enthusiasm and determination to be a

catalyst in getting others involved in providing pro

bono legal assistance.

Last year, she organized and led a Pro Bono Bank-

ruptcy Summit for the district. Task forces ad-

dressed speciﬁc areas of pro bono service, and their

reports were presented later in the year during Pro

Bono Week.

Before taking the bench, Isicoff taught a clinical

course at St. Thomas University School of Law, in

which students, mentored by attorneys, gave pro

bono assistance to parties in active bankruptcy

cases. Isicoff still mentors students in those clinical

programs, which have expanded to four law schools

in South Florida.

To encourage pro bono participation among lawyers

appearing before her, Isicoff allows pro bono vol-

unteers to appear ﬁrst (and usually out of turn) at

motion calendar hearings, recognizes pro bono attor-

neys in a monthly bulletin posted in a conspicuous

place at the entry to her courtroom, and often refers

debtors who are trying to represent themselves to

the Bankruptcy Bar Association or to the intake at-

torney for such cases at the Dade County Bar As-

sociation’s “Put Something Back” program. She also

wears a pro bono pin on her robe.

Isicoff is the judicial chair of the Pro Bono Committee

of The Florida Bar’s Business Law Section and

is active on the Standing Committee on Pro Bono

Legal Services. She also has served on the American

College of Bankruptcy Pro Bono Committee since

2006. That’s in addition to her involvement with

the Miami-Dade chapter of the Florida Association

for Women Lawyers, the Bet Shira congregation in

Miami and many other organizations.

“It’s never too early or too late to get involved,” Isicoff

said of pro bono service, “and there is something for

everyone.”

2017 RECIPIENT

Immigration Law Group of

Florida, P.A.

ou don’t need a big law ﬁrm to provide big

support for pro bono legal assistance. The Im-

migration Law Group of Florida, P.A., of St.

Petersburg has compiled an astonishing list of ac-

complishments since it was formed only three years

ago.

Kathlyn Mackovjak and Adriana Dinis, the founding

attorneys of the ﬁrm, are passionate about helping

those less fortunate.

Dinis, who earned her J.D. in 2008 from the Stetson

University College of Law, where she received the

William F. Blews Pro Bono Service Award, joined

Gulfcoast Legal Services in St. Petersburg that same

year. She still is a staff attorney for its Children’s Im-

migration Legal Defense project.

Mackovjak graduated from college in 1992 and then

spent the next 10 years with the Peace Corps and Red

Cross, working in places such as Rwanda, the People’s

Republic of Congo, Yugoslavia and Afghanistan. She

earned her J.D. in 2003 from American University’s

Washington College of Law, and then, like Dinis, rep-

resented clients for Gulfcoast Legal Services.

When they founded the Immigration Law Group in

2014, they chose to make pro bono service an inte-

gral part of the ﬁrm’s culture. The ﬁrm addresses the

THE LAW FIRM COMMENDATION

Presented by the Chief Justice

The purpose of the Law Firm Commendation is to

recognize a law ﬁrm that has demonstrated a signiﬁ-

cant contribution in the delivery of legal services to

individuals or groups on a pro bono basis.

unique needs of immigrants in two ways: Through

direct support with pro bono services, and by educat-

ing the entire community, including law enforcement,

about issues speciﬁc to immigrants.

The Immigration Law Group assists the InterCultur-

al Advocacy Institute of Clearwater (also known as

the Hispanic Outreach Center) by providing pro bono

advice at a clinic every other month. It made at least

13 community presentations in 2016 on issues such

as unaccompanied children at our borders, refugees

and asylum, and human trafﬁcking. The ﬁrm also of-

fers training to law enforcement on human trafﬁck-

ing.

The ﬁrm currently is representing three victims

of domestic abuse whose cases promise to extend

months or even years from now.

A woman from Central America who is seeking asy-

lum was a victim of extreme domestic violence in her

home country. In 2015, she and her two young chil-

dren were apprehended by U.S. Customs and Border

Protection and placed into detention. She and the

children were later released to join family in Florida.

Her asylum hearing is scheduled for February 2018,

but in the meantime she is not authorized to work.

Two other woman, both from Mexico, endured years

of domestic violence that included rape. One, undocu-

mented and alone with four children, ﬁnally got the

courage to seek an order of protection. The other tried

to get help from her family but was told that her hus-

band could do as he wished. She stayed with him un-

til he punched her in the face because their daughter

had a diaper rash.

The ﬁrm has ﬁled for a U visa (for victims of crimes)

for both women, but because of the current backlog,

both will be pro bono clients for years to come.

In 2016, the Immigration Law Group of Florida was

honored in the Sixth Judicial Circuit for Outstanding

Pro Bono Service by a Law Firm.

“To paraphrase Aristotle,” said a nominator from the

Pinellas County Chapter of the Florida Association

for Women Lawyers, “although Kathlyn and Adri-

ana’s individual accomplishments are impressive,

together the Immigration Law Group of Florida is

greater than the sum of its parts.”

THE VOLUNTARY BAR

ASSOCIATION PRO BONO

SERVICE AWARD

Presented by the Chief Justice

The purpose of the Voluntary Bar Association Pro

Bono Service Award is to recognize a voluntary bar

that has demonstrated a signiﬁcant contribution in

the delivery of legal services to individuals or groups

on a pro bono basis.

2017 Recipient

Jacksonville Bar Association

he Jacksonville Bar Association has a com-

mitment to pro bono service that has spanned

decades, and its positive impact on the legal

needs of the poor throughout Northeast Florida is

immeasurable.

The JBA received the Chief Justice’s Law Firm Com-

mendation in 1997 and again in 2002, and its good

works continue. Recent pro bono projects include:

• In 2009, the Pro Bono Committee of the JBA

started quarterly Ask-A-Lawyer events, largely in

response to the foreclosure crisis. At locations in

low-income neighborhoods chosen with help from

the Jacksonville City Council, people with legal

questions can have 15-minute, one-on-one conversa-

tions with pro bono attorneys. The clients can learn

whether they have a meritorious case, how they can

proceed on their own and where to go for additional

support. Each event draws 12 to 15 attorneys offer-

ing counsel for up to 100 people.

• In 2010, at the 12th Annual Equal Justice Awards

event, the JBA received the Robert J. Beckham

Equal Justice Award from Jacksonville Area Legal

Aid in recognition of its work with JALA in address-

ing problems in the community with ﬁnancial sup-

port and ongoing pro bono service.

• The Pro Bono Attorney Ad Litem program, man-

aged by the Legal Needs of Children Committee, was

started in 2012. The JBA has recruited and trained

attorneys and facilitated the placement of dozens of

children with them, which has resulted in hundreds

of hours of pro bono legal assistance and advocacy.

As of late 2016, the project had about 60 pro bono

attorneys willing to consider appointments.

• In 2013, the JBA’s Alternative Dispute Resolution

Committee created the Pro Bono Mediation Project.

Mediators volunteer according to the needs of the

case and their areas of expertise, and they may pro-

vide meeting space or go to the ﬁrm of one of the

parties.

• In 2016, the JBA joined with the Fourth Circuit

Pro Bono Committee to organize and implement the

ﬁrst circuitwide pro bono attorney recognition event

at the Duval County Courthouse. Attorneys received

letters from Chief Justice Jorge Labarga and an

Outstanding Pro Bono Service lapel pin (provided

by The Florida Bar’s Young Lawyers Division). “The

Presentation of the Pins” will be held again this year.

In addition, the Law Week Committee coordinates

Citizenship Day at Florida Coastal School of Law.

Attendees complete applications for naturalization,

have the applications reviewed by one of nearly 40

pro bono attorneys and submit them for consider-

ation. The JBA also assists with fundraising efforts

including the Law Review (a variety show featuring

the talents of judges and attorneys), donation drives

at luncheons and receptions, and the 30/60 Chal-

lenge.

ln 1937, members of the JBA -- already in existence

for 40 years -- gathered to consider the civil cases of

low-income people who came to their ofﬁces seeking

help. Attorneys divided up the cases, and that was

the beginning of the Duval County Legal Aid Society,

later named Jacksonville Area Legal Aid.

Eighty years later, the Jacksonville Bar Association

continues to provide dynamic, effective and gener-

ous support of pro bono legal services.

THE FLORIDA BAR

YOUNG LAWYERS DIVISION

PRO BONO SERVICE AWARD

The Florida Bar Young Lawyers Division Pro Bono

Service Award recognizes the public service or legal

aid performed by a young lawyer (younger than 36 or

who has not practiced for more than ﬁve years in any

jurisdiction) and who provides outstanding contribu-

tions to those in need of legal services.

2017 RECIPIENT

Jennifer Edwards

fter graduating from

law school in December

2014, Jennifer Edwards

attended a lecture that focused

on the needs of children who

can become lost in the legal

system without a voice. The

speaker issued a call for mem-

bers of the audience to adopt,

foster or volunteer.

Edwards didn’t hesitate, decid-

ing to use her newly acquired

legal skills to volunteer as a guardian ad litem and

serve as a court-appointed advocate for children in

Pinellas County. That work has earned her the pro

bono honor presented by The Florida Bar’s Young

Lawyers Division, which includes lawyers who are

under the age of 36 or who have not practiced for

more than ﬁve years in any jurisdiction.

Edwards typically is appointed to serve in dependency

cases. Those cases show the need, the difﬁculties and

the rewards of guardian ad litem work.

In her most recently completed case, Edwards worked

for about a year representing a 7-year-old boy whose

behavior and school work were suffering because of

his parents’ substance abuse.

In this emotionally charged situation, Edwards

worked to determine whether reuniﬁcation with the

parents was in the boy’s best interest. She wore many

hats, sometimes acting as counselor and coordina-

tor, in addition to being the boy’s attorney. She met

regularly with the boy and gained his trust; she met

with his parents and persuaded them to complete

the reuniﬁcation plan; and she met with other in-

volved parties to investigate, monitor and evaluate

the evolving circumstances. Through the year, the

boy improved his lagging language arts skills, and

in the last six months made either the Honor Roll or

the Principal’s List. At the conclusion of the case, the

court agreed with Edwards’ recommendation that the

boy be reunited with his parents -- a heart-warming

ending to a difﬁcult and emotional year.

In late 2016, Edwards also was representing the

interests of a 3-week-old girl and anticipated being

appointed to another case as well.

While still a law student at Stetson University, where

she earned an M.B.A. at the same time as her J.D.,

Edwards demonstrated her commitment to pro bono

service by volunteering with the Community Law

Program, a nonproﬁt created by the St. Petersburg

Bar Association to serve the legal needs of low-income

and disadvantaged people. She regularly participated

in the Family Law Clinic as well as Lawfest Days,

providing initial advice and guidance in completing

legal documents.

She still participates in LawFest Days and is on the

Community Law Program’s call list for pro bono at-

torneys.

“She embodies the saying that one makes time for

those people and things that truly matter,” one

nominator said. “Jennifer takes to heart the plight

of abandoned, neglected or abused children and gives

them a voice in the legal system.”

THE FLORIDA BAR

PRESIDENT’S PRO BONO

SERVICE AWARD

The Florida Bar President’s Pro Bono Service Award

was established in 1981. Its purpose is twofold: “to

further encourage lawyers to volunteer free legal

services to the poor by recognizing those who make

such public service commitments; and to communicate

to the public some sense of the substantial volunteer

services provided by Florida lawyers to those who

cannot afford legal fees.”

This award recognizes individual lawyer service in

each of Florida’s speciﬁc judicial circuits, as well as

one Bar member practicing out-of-state.

The Florida Bar PresidenT’s Pro

Bono service award reciPienTs

2017

David H. Abrams – Tallahassee

Steven Lawrence Applebaum – Panama City

Brett Alan Barﬁeld – Miami

Laura J. Boeckman – Jacksonville

Jay S. Grife – St. Johns

Lynn Katz Hanshaw – Tampa

Kristie Hatcher-Bolin – Lakeland

Brigitta Hawkins – Titusville

Richard Francis Hussey – Fort Lauderdale

Brenda L. London – Winter Park

Joseph D. Lorenz – Fort Walton Beach

David L. Manz – Marathon

Mark Miller – Palm Beach Gardens

Peggy-Anne O’Connor – Gainesville

Samuel Pennington – Tavares

Christina Nieto Seifert – Lake City

Michele S. Stephan – Sarasota

Holly Tabernilla – West Palm Beach

Jonathan I. Tolentino – Naples

Laura Thayer Wagner – Atlanta, Georgia

Katherine Earle Yanes – Tampa

Joseph D. Lorenz

1st Circuit

ro bono service has been

a hallmark of Joseph D.

Lorenz throughout his

43-year legal career in Oka-

loosa County.

In 1998, he received The Flor-

ida Bar President’s Pro Bono

Service Award for the First

Judicial Circuit, and almost 20

years later he is being honored

again. Notably, said his nomi-

nators with Legal Services

of North Florida, the body of pro bono work he has

engaged in over the last two decades is almost double

the amount for which he was ﬁrst honored.

Lorenz’s specialty is marital and family law, and that

is reﬂected in his pro bono work. In one case a few

years ago, he provided more than 60 hours of pro

bono work in a dissolution of marriage that involved

domestic violence and custody of the children. More

recently, he has worked on other domestic cases. He

has provided his pro bono work directly as well as

through Legal Services of North Florida (and through

Okaloosa-Walton Legal Aid when that program

existed).

Lorenz also has provided service through the Veterans

Consortium Pro Bono Program, which delivers appel-

late services to veterans with disabilities through the

federal Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims. He also

has volunteered as an attorney for the First Circuit

Guardian Ad Litem Program and has worked as an

attorney for the state’s Child Protection Team, to

ensure the safety of children believed to have been

abused. In 1994, he was honored by the governor and

the Florida Supreme Court for service to the Guardian

ad Litem program.

Lorenz was lured to Florida from Pennsylvania in

1966 to study at the University of Miami. He earned

his law degree from the University of Florida’s Levin

College of Law and immediately went into practice in

Fort Walton Beach. Over the years, he has been ac-

tive in his community, serving as an ofﬁcer with the

Jaycees, the Boy Scouts, Child Guardians, Inc., the

Chamber of Commerce and First United Methodist

Church.

He is a Florida Supreme Court-certiﬁed Family and

Civic Circuit Mediator, and he has been a mediator

in more than 2,000 family cases since 1991 – most of

them through the court-ordered mediation program

at reduced fee levels.

David H. Abrams

2nd Circuit

avid H. Abrams got a

late start in his legal

career, receiving his J.D.

10 years after he graduated

from college and set off to be-

come a registered professional

nurse. He still describes him-

self as a nurse who practices

law, and that personal care

shows in his pro bono work.

While still at the City Univer-

sity of New York School of Law,

Abrams became involved with Florida State Professor

Paolo Annino’s Children in Prison project, and he was

the lead author on a clemency petition for a young

woman who imprisoned for a ﬁrst offense at age 13.

With his law degree in hand, Abrams worked for the

public defender, specializing in juvenile delinquency

defense. At the same time, he continued his pro bono

efforts and earned the Lone Star Legal Aid Project

Award for representing a Texas mother whose child

was kidnapped in a custody battle.

Since opening his own ofﬁce in Tallahassee in 2004,

specializing in consumer rights and bankruptcy,

Abrams has taken on some challenging pro bono cases.

He represented a transgender student who was

expelled from Leon County schools for wearing

opposite-gender clothes and further represented the

child in delinquency proceedings. He used his nurs-

ing background in helping a 26-year-old pregnant

woman who was ﬁghting her court-ordered bed rest

in a hospital. He spent a holiday weekend doing

research and drafting pleadings, and he paid a ﬁl-

ing fee for an appeal out of his own pocket. Though

the woman had a miscarriage before the case ended,

Abrams won the appeal with a holding that pregnant

women have rights to privacy and liberty in making

medical decisions.

Abrams spent more than 100 hours representing a

cognitively impaired child in dependency court and

through the child’s recent adoption. In a current case,

Abrams is helping a former property manager whose

homeowners’ association has reneged on waiving his

HOA fees. His total in that case is 50 pro bono hours

and counting.

Abrams also takes on smaller challenges, such as of-

fering area students free lease previews.

He is active in his community, organizing and sponsor-

ing “Saving Homes for the Holidays” for the homeless

defense program of Legal Services of North Florida.

Christina Nieto Seifert

3rd Circuit

hen Christina “Tina”

Nieto Seifert went

into private practice

in 2009, after spending most

of the ﬁrst 14 years of her legal

career with the State Attor-

ney’s Ofﬁce, legal aid was the

big winner.

Seifert immediately signed up

with Three Rivers Legal Ser-

vices as a volunteer, and since

then she has provided pro bono

assistance to nearly 60 family law clients, spending

as much as 60 hours on just one divorce case.

Family law cases always are difﬁcult to place with

volunteer attorneys. That’s why Seifert, whose solo

practice in Lake City concentrates on family and

criminal law, is so valuable to Three Rivers. Her pro

bono clients often are victims of domestic violence,

and they often are facing a crisis in their lives. Seif-

ert’s nominators said she is exceptionally patient and

understanding of her clients’ needs, and the clients

in turn become more comfortable and at ease, recog-

nizing that Seifert truly enjoys working with them.

Seifert also regularly volunteers to conduct the Three

Rivers Legal Services pro se divorce clinic and has

said she’d be happy to volunteer every month.

Outside of her pro bono service, Seifert is active in

the legal and local community.

Throughout her career, she has been a role model for

newer attorneys in the Third Judicial Circuit. She has

been an active member of the Third Judicial Circuit

Bar Association, holding every ofﬁcer position at least

once and serving as president twice, most recently in

2014-15. Each December, she organizes the local bar

association’s toy drive for low-income children, and

this year she also organized a food drive for a local

food bank. She also has coached Columbia County

High School’s mock trial team, and she is on the Board

of Directors of the Gateway Art Gallery in Lake City

She is a graduate of the Stetson University College

of Law.

Laura J. Boeckman

4th Circuit

ot only has Laura Boeck-

man donated hundreds

of hours of pro bono ser-

vice, but she also has been a

vocal advocate advancing the

availability of civil legal ser-

vices for low-income people. For

more than 15 years, she has

demonstrated a commitment to

protecting victims from those

who engage in deceptive and

unfair trade practices.

Two years after receiving her J.D. in 2001 from the

Indiana University School of Law in Bloomington,

Boeckman joined Jacksonville Area Legal Aid as a

staff attorney. In 2005, she joined the faculty of the

Florida Coastal School of Law and was the supervis-

ing attorney for the school’s Consumer Law Clinic.

She helped dozens of people through the clinic while

providing hundreds of hours of pro bono work on an

individual basis, accepting cases from Jacksonville

Area Legal Aid, the Federal District Court, and the

American Bar Association’s Military Pro Bono Project.

mostly focusing on consumer disputes.

Just as important as Boeckman’s pro bono case repre-

sentation has been her leadership as a mentor, guide

and expert for other pro bono attorneys and legal

services staff.

Boeckman has developed and presented topics such

as “Litigating Garnishment Exemptions” and “Profes-

sionalism and the Pro Bono Client” for training pro

bono attorneys across the state. She was one of the ﬁrst

coaches for the Fourth Circuit’s Bankruptcy Pro Bono

Practice Groups, which helped clear a backlog of cases

and foster a new group of dedicated pro bono attorneys.

Now, as the North Florida Bureau Chief in the Con-

sumer Protection Division of the Attorney General’s

Ofﬁce, still Boeckman participates in pro bono efforts.

For example, as the current president of the Jack-

sonville Chapter of the Federal Bar Association, she

has supported participation of members in the Legal

Information Program, in which federal practice pro

bono attorneys work with legal services staff attorneys

to guide pro se litigants. The pilot program was so suc-

cessful that it is being expanded to Tampa and Orlando.

Boeckman also is co-chair of the Pro Bono Committee

of the Jacksonville Bar Association, has made presenta-

tions on small-claims court and bankruptcy issues and

has spoken to clients of Habitat for Humanity about

their rights as consumers.

Samuel Pennington

5th Circuit

amuel Pennington’s road

to the legal profession

had several twists and

turns.

After graduating from Titus-

ville High School, he enlisted

in the U.S. Navy and was

honorably discharged in 1970.

He then went to college and

graduated from the Cumber-

land School of Law at Samford

University in 1979.

Pennington didn’t get around

to taking The Florida Bar exam

until 1988, instead working for several years with

Christian Prison Ministries. But since the mid-1990s,

he has limited his practice to the area of bankruptcy

law. He also has kept a focus on helping people in need

through pro bono legal services.

In 1996, Pennington was recognized for his extraordi-

nary pro bono services by the Greater Orlando Legal

Services and the Lake County Bar Association. And

in 2015, he was named the Lake County Pro Bono

Attorney of the Year by Community Legal Services

of Mid-Florida.

Pennington joined the pro bono panel of Community

Legal Services of Mid-Florida in July 2015 and was

instrumental in the establishment of a recurring

bankruptcy legal advice clinic in Lake County. He

also recruited attorneys to staff the clinics and has

mentored new pro bono attorneys as well as staff at-

torneys for Community Legal Services of Mid-Florida.

During the past year, Pennington has provided more

than 100 hours of pro bono assistance to Community

Legal Services clients. In addition to providing legal

advice at the bankruptcy clinics, he has provided full

representation to clients in Chapter 7 and Chapter

13 bankruptcies.

Pennington returned to private practice in 2012, a few

months after retiring from his job as staff attorney

for Laurie K. Weatherford, the Chapter 13 Standing

Trustee for the Middle District of Florida, Orlando

Division, whom he had served from January 2001

through November of 2011. His Pennington Law Firm

now has ofﬁces in Tavares and Orlando. He is a mem-

ber of the Order of Barristers, given for excellence in

courtroom advocacy. He also was chair of the Orange

County Bar Association Bankruptcy Committee in

1998-99, and again in 2015-16.

Lynn Katz Hanshaw

6th Circuit

ynn Katz Hanshaw really

wanted to be an attorney.

The fact that she was

a single mother of three who

was holding down a full-time

job and had needed 20 years to

get her undergraduate degree

wasn’t going to keep her from

her goal.

Hanshaw entered the Stetson

College of Law when she was

40. While there, she interned

with the legal aid organization Gulfcoast Legal Ser-

vices and received the college’s William F. Blews Pro

Bono Service Award. Upon her graduation in 1999,

she was offered an opportunity to return to Gulfcoast

Legal Services, and she stayed there until going into

private practice in 2006.

But she never forgot her pro bono roots.

Over her years in private practice, Hanshaw has vol-

unteered at intake sessions at the Community Law

Program, participated in every Lawfest (a community

law event in south St. Petersburg), volunteered to

speak whenever asked, helped establish the ﬁrst

fair-housing consortium in the Pinellas-Hillsborough

area, and made arrangements to take every single

caller to Stetson’s veterans program with a landlord/

tenant issue. She never hesitates to offer assistance

to an attorney or individual in need of direction in a

housing-rights case, and you’ll still ﬁnd her working

the 7 a.m. shift at the monthly Ask a Lawyer program

offered by the Hillsborough County Bar Association.

Before she accepted her current job with Langford &

Myers, P.A., in Tampa, where her practice includes

extensive civil and administrative litigation, she

explained that she would do so only if she could con-

tinue her pro bono work. She even created an “Option

Two” form that made it easier for her and others to

act as a ﬁrm’s designated pro bono attorney, opening

an untapped source of pro bono services.

In 2016, she received the Sixth Judicial Circuit’s

Pro Bono Award for Outstanding Pro Bono Service

by an Attorney. (Though Hanshaw’s ofﬁce is in the

Thirteenth Circuit, she also is being honored by The

Florida Bar for work done in the Sixth Circuit.)

“When something needs to be done, Lynn just does

it,” one of her nominators said.

Jay S. Grife

7th Circuit

ay S. Grife had a success-

ful career as a physician

and podiatric surgeon and

might have retired comfortably

after his health wouldn’t allow

him to continue.

Instead, he chose a second

career as an attorney, earning

his J.D. from the University of

Florida Levin College of Law in

1995, more than 20 years after

he had earned his M.D. Today,

the Grife Law Ofﬁce in St. Johns concentrates on

medical malpractice and health-related law.

Grife’s pro bono work, though, takes a different di-

rection, focusing on consumer ﬁnance and banking

matters affecting low-income residents of St. Johns

County.

Since January of 2014, Grife – or “Mr. Jay” as some

clients like to call him – has contributed more than

495 hours to pro bono cases. That’s in addition to the

equally staggering 480 hours he has spent doing cli-

ent intake interviews for the St. Johns County Legal

Aid Consumer Pro Bono Program, often working into

the evening. Want to know what pro bono service is

worth? At $300 per hour – not an unreasonable rate

for an attorney with 20 years of experience – Grife

has contributed more than $290,000 in free legal

services since 2014.

There are faces behind those numbers. A 94-year-old

woman couldn’t understand why her home was in

foreclosure. Grife found that a relative had fraudu-

lently obtained a reverse mortgage on the house and

that the bank, while claiming the woman no longer

lived in the house, was having foreclosure papers

delivered to that very address. Eventually, Grife

saved her home.

In another case, a woman was sued twice by a na-

tional bank for the same debt. Grife swiftly obtained

a dismissal of the second suit, then ﬁle a malicious

prosecution claim against the bank and obtained

complete relief for his client.

His nominator said Grife probably has opened and

closed more pro bono cases in the interview room –

making a phone call to work out a solution – than

most attorneys will take on in their careers. “I have

not met another lawyer who contributes so much of

his time and energy to pro bono work or who cares so

deeply for his pro bono clients,” the nominator said.

Peggy-Anne O’Connor

8th Circuit

s part of her commit-

ment to Alachua Coun-

ty’s Ask-A-Lawyer proj-

ect that serves people who are

homeless, Peggy-Anne “Peg”

O’Connor joined other volun-

teers in serving a meal at Grace

Marketplace. No doubt there

was extra satisfaction in that

effort when some of the people

in line exclaimed, “Hey, that’s

my lawyer!”

The Ask-A-Lawyer project -- a collaborative effort of

the Eighth Judicial Circuit Bar Association, Three

Rivers Legal Services, Southern Legal Counsel

and volunteer law students from the University of

Florida Levin College of Law -- meets 10 times a year

at locations serving the homeless, including Grace

Marketplace, a domestic violence shelter and the

downtown library.

O’Connor began working with the project in March

2015 and has been an active and integral member.

She has met with more than 30 clients to discuss their

issues, primarily in criminal law, and has worked with

other volunteer attorneys to determine how to best

advise the clients.

“She doesn’t miss an event,” a nominator wrote. “It is

no doubt very difﬁcult to live with the stigma of being

homeless. But when these clients meet Peg, they are

greeted with a friendliness and dignity that assures

them that they are just as important to Peg as any

of her other clients.”

O’Connor also handles pro bono work outside of Ask-

A-Lawyer. She prepared and ﬁled a clemency petition

for the compassionate release of a 73-year-old federal

inmate in South Carolina who was sentenced to 262

months in prison for conspiracy to import marijuana.

She also is partnering with the ACLU and another

local attorney against the Florida Department of

Corrections for mistreatment inﬂicted on inmates by

guards at Suwannee Correctional Institution.

O’Connor earned her J.D. from the Levin College of

Law in 1998. She has been in private practice with

Turner O’Connor Kozlowski in Gainesville since 2007.

Active in the legal community, she serves on the board

of the Eighth Judicial Circuit Bar Association and the

Southern Legal Counsel, and is a past-chair of the

Gainesville Women’s Network and a past-president

of the Federal Bar Association, North Central Florida

Chapter.

Brenda L. London

9th Circuit

hen Brenda London’s

13-year-old son was

offered extra credit

to write a poem about a local

hero, he wrote “Do You Hear

Me?” which ends with the lines:

She didn’t give up and I was

surprised. Do you hear me?

Now I laugh and even if I cry, I

know That someone hears me.

It was about his mother and

her many years of work with children in need, and it

was one of the winners in Orlando’s “Writes of Spring”

contest and became part of a play, written around

students’ words, titled “Do You Hear Me?”

Since 1988, London has taken more than 100 Guard-

ian ad Litem appointments. She currently assists

nine children, and she has donated more than 1,200

hours on closed cases. In 2016, she received the Judge

J.C. “Jake” Stone Distinguished Service Award, the

highest recognition from the Legal Aid Society of the

Orange County Bar Association.

Many of the cases have been difficult. In one, a

mother abandoned her three children at a hotel, and

they later faced severe abuse after being adopted.

In another, sisters aged 10 and 12 were forced to act

out pornography with their father. In yet another,

three children witnessed the beating death of their

4-year-old sister. London worked for 10 years with

six children who had one mother and three fathers,

standing by them as they experienced accidents and

disability.

London went the extra mile, even learning sign lan-

guage so she could communicate with a child who

was deaf.

London also serves as director of the Barry University

Collaborative Family Law Clinic, which helps families

restructure their lives and make good choices for

their children.

London received her J.D. in 1988 from the University

of Florida Levin College of Law. She has been with the

Aiken Family Law Group in Winter Park since 1993.

“My pro bono work has allowed me the greatest op-

portunity to become the best lawyer, wife, mother and

human being I could ever have hoped to be,” London

said, “and I am grateful and humble to all the families

that have allowed me into their lives.”

Kristie Hatcher-Bolin

10th Circuit

ince 2005, Kristie Hatch-

er-Bolin has been a pro

bono attorney ad litem

and volunteer advocate for the

children in the 10th Judicial

Circuit Guardian ad Litem

program.

The challenge can be daunting,

but she never misses a beat,

attending all the hearings and

contacting all the interested

stakeholders before the hear-

ings. She also takes time to attend all stafﬁngs involv-

ing children in her cases. Often, her nominators said,

Hatcher-Bolin provides the court and parties with

information that was unknown previously, thanks to

her thorough research into the cases.

Hatcher -Bolin is currently serving on two complex

cases, one of which offers a perfect example of the

importance of a guardian ad litem.

The child involved is a victim of sex trafficking.

The state of Georgia subpoenaed the child to testify

against the accused perpetrator, and an attorney for

Florida’s Department of Children and Families told

the case manager that the child must go to Georgia

and appear at the hearing. When the Guardian ad

Litem program and Hatcher-Bolin learned of the sub-

poena, she worked with the Georgia district attorney

to gather information so that the state obtained a

conviction without the child having to face her abuser

again in the courtroom.

The child is currently thriving in a placement in

Florida, with Hatcher-Bolin remaining on her side.

Hatcher-Bolin is a shareholder at GrayRobinson, P.A.,

a large law ﬁrm in Lakeland. Despite a demanding

professional schedule, she still averages 15 to 20 hours

each month on her pro bono cases. Her nominators

said she often carries the day in court because of her

thorough knowledge about the children in her cases,

and details of the cases well beyond what is expected.

Hatcher-Bolin, a former high school English teacher,

is a 2001 graduate of the Florida State University

College of Law. In addition to her pro bono work, she

also serves as a member of the Second District Court

of Appeal Judicial Nominating Commission.

Brett Alan Barﬁeld

11th Circuit

s a partner with Holland

& Knight LLP in Mi-

ami, Brett Alan Barﬁeld

handles business litigation

with an emphasis on domestic

and international commercial

disputes. But he has become

known for another specialty

through his pro bono work:

litigation under the Hague

Convention on international

parental child abduction.

Through Barﬁeld’s leadership,

Holland & Knight has handled more than 80 Hague

cases. Barﬁeld has personally litigated more than

50 such cases, mostly in Florida, offering him an op-

portunity to mentor younger lawyers as they work to

reunite parents and children and, at the same time,

gain invaluable courtroom experience.

In 2016, Barﬁeld spent more than 380 hours on pro

bono work, most of it on three cases:

In a case from Venezuela, Holland & Knight lawyers

helped Alfredo Salvi reunite with his daughter. When

the child was 11 months old, the mother obtained a

fraudulent U.S. passport for the child using her new

husband’s surname, then took the child from Venezu-

ela to New York City, in violation of a Venezuelan court

order. Ironically, facing threats in Venezuela, Salvi

and his daughter ﬂed to the United States, while his

ex-wife ﬁled a Hague Convention action seeking the

return of the child to Venezuela. Barﬁeld defeated that

petition based on an exception when the child would

face a “grave risk of physical or psychological harm.”

Another case involved a Panamanian father seeking

to reunite with his twins, whom the mother secretly

removed in 2009 and again in 2014. The court ruled

that too much time had passed for the children to

be returned, and Barﬁeld is appealing the decision.

Finally, Barﬁeld was awaiting a ruling on a case in

which a father in Florida took his three children for

a “summer vacation” and refused to return them to

Canada.

Barﬁeld, valedictorian of his 1999 graduating class at

St. Thomas University School of Law, has coordinated

Holland & Knight’s pro bono program for the last few

years, taking on challenging matters and recruiting

colleagues to do the same. The ﬁrm co sponsors self-

help clinics, a pro bono website, seminars, hotlines

and other projects beneﬁtting disadvantaged people.

Michele S. Stephan

12th Circuit

ven before she joined

The Florida Bar, Michele

S. Stephan understood

the value of pro bono service.

Stephan went to the Stetson

University College of Law on a

Public Service Fellowship from

The Florida Bar Foundation

and, while there, developed

a program to provide legal

services to the poor and volun-

teered at legal clinics. She was

awarded the college’s Pro Bono

Service Award in 1996, the year she earned her J.D.

Now, after 20 years of legal practice, she has left a

Sarasota personal-injury ﬁrm and started a solo prac-

tice, Sui Juris, P.A., to offer unbundled legal services to

pro se litigants and others who can’t afford a lawyer.

Stephan has been an outstanding advocate for Legal

Aid of Manasota, helping clients and teaching a di-

vorce clinic. She is dedicated to serving the homeless

at Resurrection House, a local day shelter. Over the

years she has donated more than 800 hours of pro

bono service.

For ﬁve years, Stephan has single-handedly run a

weekly clinic at Resurrection House, assisting people

who are homeless.

She helped a German man get his driver’s license by

requesting records from the U.S. Consulate document-

ing his legal entry into the United States. She also

helped a man with Stage IV lung cancer obtain his

driver’s license for identiﬁcation.

She assisted a client through the Social Security

disability process, enabling him to get off the street

and into safe housing. She helped a father defend a

termination of parental rights so that he could estab-

lish a relationship with his child, and she helped a

woman recover uninsured motorist beneﬁts after she

was involved in a hit and run.

Another client was living in a decrepit motel, even

though she had an inheritance. Stephan helped

establish a guardianship, and the client is now in

an assisted living facility, getting three meals a day,

while the trustee trying to steal the money was held

accountable.

Stephan earned the 2015 Distinguished Community

Service Award from the Sarasota County Bar Asso-

ciation and the Service to the Community Award by

Legal Aid of Manasota in 2011, 2014 and 2015.

Katherine Earle Yanes

13th Circuit

ederal prisons are full of

drug offenders who might

have received much light-

er sentences if they had been

sentenced under current law.

That injustice led to the cre-

ation of Clemency Project 2014,

and Katherine Earle Yanes

has been one of the keys to the

project’s success.

Since she became involved in

July 2014, Yanes has documented more than 500

hours volunteering for Clemency Project 2014. That

does not include countless nights and weekends spent

working on the clemency cases and assisting others

with their clemency cases.

“To watch Katherine leave in the evening with a brief-

case under her arm and come back the next morning

having written two cases,” fellow attorney James

Felman told the Tampa Bay Times, “it’s unbelievable.”

Felman works at Kynes Markman & Felman, P.A., in

Tampa, where Yanes is a partner.

Kynes, Markman & Felman has submitted more than

110 petitions to the Ofﬁce of the Pardon Attorney in

the Department of Justice. As of late 2016, President

Obama had granted clemency to 30 of those.

Yanes has written petitions, assisted other volunteer

attorneys outside of her ﬁrm by answering questions

or giving them guidance with sentencing guidelines,

and serves as a member of the Screening Committee

for the project.

“We felt like this was really a once-in-a-lifetime oppor-

tunity to be able to make a difference on a larger scale

in people’s lives,” Yanes told the Tampa Bay Times.

“Honestly, I feel like it’s about the most satisfying and

fulﬁlling thing I’ve done as an attorney.”

Yanes also continues to represent clients on a pro bono

basis through Crossroads for Florida Kids, Inc. and

the Stetson Innocence Pro Bono Project. She serves on

several committees for The Florida Bar, is president

of the Tampa Bay Chapter of the Federal Bar As-

sociation and is a past-president of the Hillsborough

Association for Women Lawyers.

In 2016, the Hillsborough County Bar Association

Criminal Law Section awarded Yanes its annual Mar-

celino “Bubba” Huerta III Award for Professionalism

and Pro Bono Service.

Yanes earned her J.D. in 1997 from the Stetson Uni-

versity College of Law, where she was valedictorian.

Steven Lawrence Applebaum

14th Circuit

teven Applebaum got

an early exposure to the

legal needs of low-income

people when, right after gradu-

ating from the University of

Florida Levin College of Law in

1991, he went to work for Legal

Services of North Florida at its

Panama City ofﬁce.

Applebaum worked at LSNF

for three years, representing

clients in landlord/tenant is-

sues, consumer law, bankruptcy, family law, and wills

and probate. In 1995, he went into private practice,

but he didn’t stop helping others.

First he volunteered as a mock trial coach at a local

high school, helping the team win state champion-

ships in 1994 and 1995. He retired from coaching but

remained as a mock trial judge and was named At-

torney of the Year in 1996 by the Florida Law Related

Education Association.

He began volunteering at the monthly First Saturday

Legal Clinic, a joint project of Legal Services of North

Florida and the Bay County Bar Association. Several

times he was co-chair, which meant helping to run the

clinic and recruit attorneys to attend. In 2013, after

a six-month term as co-chair, Applebaum wanted to

become more involved with coordinating pro bono ef-

forts and joined the Fourteenth Judicial Circuit Pro

Bono Committee.

In 2015, he helped coordinate and attended a pro bono

advice clinic in nearby Jackson County. About the

same time, the administrators of the First Saturday

Legal Clinic retired, so Applebaum stepped in to ﬁll

the void, working with staff at Gulf Coast College to

make sure classrooms were available and becoming

the unofﬁcial liaison with Legal Services of North

Florida.

Applebaum also has donated about 30 hours each

of the last four years to direct pro bono services.

He helped a man with disabilities get child support

reduced to an appropriate, affordable amount and

then helped the client reorganize his ﬁnances, which

brought him stability and peace of mind. In another

case, he got an eviction notice dismissed and helped

a client through the foreclosure process, letting her

redeem the equity in her home.

Applebaum has worked with the Law Ofﬁce of Brian

D. Hess in Panama City since 1995.

Holly Tabernilla

Circuit

ndocumented immi-

grants can be under-

standably reluctant to

have contact with law enforce-

ment, a worry that can become

tragic when the person is a

victim of abuse or other crimes.

That’s why the pro bono work

of Holly Tabernilla is so im-

portant.

Tabernilla began volunteering

with the Immigrant Advocacy Project in September

2013.

One of a number of advocacy projects of the Legal Aid

Society of Palm Beach County (along with projects

handling issues from wage disputes to children’s

health and fair housing), the Immigrant Advocacy

Project provides legal services to immigrants apply-

ing for lawful permanent residence, with a focus on

noncitizen victims of domestic violence and dependent

immigrant children, and community education in the

area of immigration and nationality law.

Tabernilla volunteers there about three days every

week, and handles mostly U Nonimmigrant Visa

cases, helping undocumented immigrants obtain legal

status when they have been the victim of a crime and

have cooperated with law enforcement in the investi-

gation or prosecution of that crime.

She has logged nearly 80 hours per month in pro

bono services -- well over 2,000 hours total. She has

represented more than 100 victims, most of whom

would have gone unrepresented if not for her willing-

ness to volunteer.

“Holly is a superb advocate and has become a valuable

member of the Immigration Advocacy Project team,”

supervising attorney Shane O’Meara said. Her repre-

sentation of these victims can result in many beneﬁts

for them, including eligibility to apply for a driver’s

license, access to public health insurance programs

as well as employment authorization.

Tabernilla, who lives in West Palm Beach, received

the 2016 Immigration Law Award from the Legal Aid

Society of Palm Beach County.

She received her J.D. in 1988 from the University of

Florida Levin College of Law.

She has worked in the public and private sector and

practiced commercial litigation in both state and

federal court.

David L. Manz

Circuit

f you want to see the impact

that pro bono service can

have on people in need, just

take a glance at some of the

cases handled by David Manz.

The mother of a 4-year-old boy

with special needs was asking

the court to enforce the terms

of a custody and visitation

agreement, after the father

refused to abide by it. Manz

dedicated 110 pro bono hours

to that case alone.

A woman needed to set up a durable power of attorney

over her sister, who was suffering from dementia. The

case was referred from another jurisdiction, and as

soon as Manz was notiﬁed of the need for an attorney,

he jumped in to assist the client at a difﬁcult time.

In a dissolution-of-marriage case, Manz handled

things expeditiously and obtained alimony so the

woman could get a fresh start.

In a guardianship case, Manz successfully handled ali-

mony and child-support issues after a father refused

child support for an adult dependent child.

After another dissolution-of-marriage case, the client

said, “Mr. Manz was so wonderful.”

In all, Manz provided more than 300 hours of pro bono

service on 10 cases in 2015 and 2016.

Manz ﬁnds many of his pro bono legal cases through

the Put Something Back pro bono project, for which

he handles primarily family law, guardianship and

other civil matters. Though the ofﬁce of the Manz Law

Firm is in Marathon, on the Overseas Highway, he

accepts pro bono cases from many jurisdictions, and

clients consistently praise his willingness to help and

his dedication to their causes.

“He never says ‘no’ when called upon to assist the Put

Something Back pro bono project,” said one nominator.

Manz received his J.D. in 1984 from the Cumberland

School of Law. He became a member of the Alabama

bar the same year, but moved to Monroe County in

1988, when he became a member of The Florida Bar.

He is a past chair of the Family Law Section of The

Florida Bar (2011-2012) and also is a past president

of the Florida Chapter of the American Academy of

Matrimonial Lawyers.

Richard Francis Hussey

Circuit

he perfect word to de-

scribe the pro bono le-

gal service of Richard

Hussey might be “reliable.”

Almost every year since 1989,

Hussey has handled a pro bono

case, racking up nearly 870

hours of pro bono service.

Most of the cases involved

divorce or separation, with

custody and visitation cases

also being common. The reason

is that Hussey chooses to represent survivors of do-

mestic violence, helping them to resolve their family

law and housing issues.

One client whom Hussey represented was a woman

who was ﬂeeing violence, displaced from her home

and living in her car. In another instance, he agreed

to accept a pro bono case to represent a client in a

restraining order hearing, with just one day’s notice

before the hearing. But without Hussey’s help, that

client might have had to go before the court without

representation.

Hussey accepts most of his cases through Legal Aid

Service of Broward County and Coast to Coast Legal

Aid of South Florida, who are partners in a joint

pro bono project, Broward Lawyers Care. Broward

Lawyers Care recruits, trains, retains and recognizes

volunteer attorneys through campaigns, presenta-

tions, seminars, clinics and awards.

Hussey also helps families through the Broward

County Bar Association and previously served with

the Guardian ad Litem Program in Broward County.

In addition, Hussey mentors other pro bono attorneys

in dealing with difﬁcult family law cases.

Hussey is a 1981 graduate of the University of San

Diego School of Law. He joined the California Bar, of

which he still is a member, in 1982 and then joined

The Florida Bar in 1983.

Since 1990, he has been a solo practitioner in Fort

Lauderdale, dealing in both trial and civil litigation.

His ofﬁce has been in the same building in downtown

Fort Lauderdale since 1994.

In 2005, he was named Lawyer of the Year by Broward

Lawyers Care.

Brigitta Hawkins

18th Circuit

he spring of 2010 was not

a good time for many res-

idents of Brevard County,

who faced unprecedented hard-

ships with the collapse of the

economy and the housing mar-

ket. With that hardship came a

vast and unmet need for legal

information and assistance.

Later that same year, Brigitta

Hawkins created the Space

Coast Community Law School,

with the help of a team of volunteers who included

attorneys, judges and paralegals.

Since then, a dozen judges and more than 50 at-

torneys have provided hundreds of pro bono hours

offering free legal seminars to the public on topics

such as foreclosure, bankruptcy, estate planning and

probate, Social Security disability, employment law,

landlord-tenant disputes, small claims, guardianship,

post-conviction relief, domestic violence injunctions,

consumer law, constitutional law and criminal law.

Sessions on law library information, clerk’s ofﬁce

procedures and legal aid services are also included.

The bimonthly seminars are held in an informal set-

ting, in the evening at two locations during spring

and fall terms, and general questions are welcome.

Hawkins also is a familiar face to the staff at Brevard

County Legal Aid – they know her as “Britta” -- for

being willing to provide individual representation to

people in need. Since 2009, she has provided about

400 hours of pro bono service to 230 clients.

Hawkins has been recognized by Brevard County Le-

gal Aid with its Outstanding Pro Bono Service Award

in every year since 2009. The Florida Association of

Women Lawyers has given her its Leader in Law

honor, and the Brevard Bar Foundation presented

her with the President’s Certiﬁcate of Excellence

for Exemplary Leadership and Service to the Com-

munity Award.

Hawkins, who received her J.D. in 2006 from the

Florida A&M University College of Law, is now a

partner at Telfer, Faherty, Anderson & Hawkins, P.L.,

in Titusville, where her primary focus is on Social

Security, worker’s compensation, veteran’s law and

personal injury.

Her nominators at Brevard County Legal Aid called

Hawkins “a shining example of professionalism in

our community.”

Mark Miller

19th Circuit

iamond Litty had been

the elected public de-

fender for the 19th Ju-

dicial Circuit since 1992, and

never before had a lawyer in

private practice walked in and

asked to help with her ofﬁce’s

burgeoning caseload. That

changed in 2009, when Mark

Miller inquired about a lack of

funding and the need for more

legal services.

Miller quickly put together a group of lawyers who

created the Pro Bono Appellate Program to assist

indigent defendants with the appeals process. At-

torneys volunteering through the program have won

numerous appeals for their clients. In one case, all

charges were dismissed after the State Attorney’s Of-

ﬁce reviewed the appeals brief submitted on behalf of

a defendant. Miller has said that the best part of the

appellate program is seeing other attorneys step in to

help the Public Defender’s Ofﬁce carry out its mission.

Carolyn Fabrizio, director of private attorney involve-

ment with Florida Rural Legal Services, had a similar

story of surprise with Miller. In 2009-10, when she was

a pro bono coordinator for FRLS, she was delighted

to meet Miller – who then had a boutique appellate

practice – and ﬁnd him zealously working pro bono

on a foreclosure case assigned through the Florida

Attorneys Saving Homes program. She says Miller

always has found ways to work outside the box to

help pro bono clients. He also has mentored FRLS

attorneys in their work on appellate cases.

Over the past eight years, Miller has provided more

than 400 hours of pro bono services to low-income

clients on the Treasure Coast.

Even when he’s not working directly with a client on a

pro bono basis, Miller is generous with his leadership

skills. He has worked to ﬁnd ways that the Martin

County Bar Association (of which he is now president)

could help Florida Rural Legal Services (of which he is

a board member) meet the needs of vulnerable people.

He’s also a member of the Nineteenth Judicial Circuit

Pro Bono Committee.

Martin, a graduate of the University of Florida Levin

College of Law, has been managing attorney of the

Paciﬁc Legal Foundation’s East Coast ofﬁce in Palm

Beach Gardens since March 2014.

Jonathan I. Tolentino

Circuit

espite his status as a solo

practitioner with a busy

practice in Naples, Jona-

than I. Tolentino places a prior-

ity on pro bono service. Over

the last few years, his work has

changed the lives of members of

more than 20 debt-laden, low-

income families, helping them

to ﬁnd ﬁnancial relief and get

a fresh start.

Tolentino was one of the found-

ing members of the Pro Bono Bankruptcy Legal Clinic,

launched in 2012 by the Legal Aid Service of Collier

County’s Collier Lawyers Care Pro Bono Program.

Using software and equipment funded through a

grant from the American College of Bankruptcy At-

torneys, Tolentino and four other experienced bank-

ruptcy attorneys were paired with law students to

help clients at several legal advice clinics at Legal

Aid Service of Collier County.

Part of the purpose of the clinics was to screen clients

to see if they might qualify for a Chapter 7 ﬁling in

Bankruptcy Court. Tolentino ended up taking on a

number of these cases – 21 since 2012. Obviously,

because the clients already were deeply in debt –

often due to job loss or serious medical issues – they

were in desperate need of the free legal services that

Tolentino provided.

Tolentino continues to work on Chapter 7 cases

for Legal Aid Service of Collier County, and he has

provided more than 200 hours of pro bono services –

with ﬁve cases still pending -- since the legal clinic

was launched, helping to discharge many thousands

of dollars of debt for the low-income clients served

by legal aid.

Tolentino’s nominators praised his ﬂexibility and

his willingness to take on pro bono cases. In turn, he

serves as a role model for other attorneys, and he has

helped Legal Aid Service of Collier County recruit ad-

ditional pro bono attorneys to handle the heavy load

of bankruptcy cases.

His work has relieved emotional and economic bur-

dens that were weighing down struggling families.

Tolentino is a 1999 graduate of Nova Southeastern

University’s Shepard Broad Law Center.

Laura Thayer Wagner

Out-of-state

aura Wagner’s dedication

to pro bono legal service

started early, when she

was a student at the University

of Florida Levin College of Law.

She was involved in both the

Pro Bono Project, which offers

legal services to organizations

with limited resources, and the

Community Service Project,

which provides support to a

variety of community-based

projects, devoting more than 105 hours to each. She

received Outstanding Achievement Certiﬁcates from

the college for both efforts.

One year after receiving her J.D. in 2012, she joined

Hunton & Williams LLP at its Atlanta ofﬁce, and

there she has spent more than 700 hours on pro bono

representation during the last two years.

Almost since her arrival, Wagner has been working on

a major habeas corpus case that Hunton & Williams

accepted after being approached by the Southern

Center for Human Rights. Three brothers were tried

together on charges of murder, and all three were

convicted and sentenced to life in prison. However,

there was a likelihood that material evidence was not

uncovered or introduced at trial. In addition, while

reviewing the trial transcript, Wagner found that a

prospective juror had said under oath that he could

not be fair and impartial in the case – but was seated

on the jury anyway.

Wagner now is handling habeas petitions for two of

the brothers (one, now deceased, is believed to have

been the shooter in the case). One petition was denied

but is on appeal to the Supreme Court of Georgia. As

of early December, the second was fully briefed and

awaiting a hearing. Wagner has dedicated more than

600 hours to the two cases.

In addition, in 2014, Wagner spent more than 95 pro

bono hours representing a senior citizen referred

by the Atlanta Legal Aid Society. She obtained a

favorable result for the client, who was involved in a

property dispute.

For her efforts over the last two years, Wagner re-

ceived her ﬁrm’s E. Randolph Williams Award for

outstanding pro bono service.

Wagner is a member of the Florida and the Georgia

bars, and also is a member of the Young Lawyers

Division of each.

Recipients of the Tobias Simon

Pro Bono Service Award

Mark Olive, Tallahassee (2017)

Bruce B. Blackwell, Winter Park (2016)

John W. Kozyak, Miami (2015)

Karen Meyer Buesing, Tampa (2014)

Jeanne Trudeau Tate, Tampa (2013)

Rosemary E. Armstrong, Tampa (2012)

Robert G. Kerrigan, Pensacola (2011)

Robert C. Josefsberg, Miami (2010)

Russell E. Carlisle, Fort Lauderdale (2009)

Sylvia Hardaway Walbolt, Tampa (2008)

Talbot “Sandy” D’Alemberte, Tallahassee (2007)

Katherine Warthen Ezell, Miami (2006)

James M. Vanderplas, Indian Rocks Beach (2005)

Edward M. Waller, Jr., Tampa (2004)

Jacqueline Marie Valdespino, Miami (2003)

Maurice Wagner, Deltona (2002)

Gerald Israel Kornreich, Miami (2001)

Victor Manuel Diaz, Jr., Miami (2000)

Daniel Frederick Wilensky, Jacksonville (1999)

Vance Edwin Salter, Miami (1998)

James M. Russ, Orlando (1997)

Richard Craig Milstein, Miami (1996)

Leon Blakely Cheek, III, Fern Park (1995)

Allan Howard Terl, Fort Lauderdale (1994)

Nancy S. Palmer, Maitland (1993)

Steven Mark Goldstein, Tallahassee (1992)

Alexandra delaVergne St. Paul, Bradenton (1991)

Howard W. Dixon, Miami (1990)

Herbert Lee Allen, Jr., Orlando (1989)

Jean Gillespie Booher, Fort Lauderdale (1988)

Steven Lauren Seliger, Quincy (1987)

Roderick Norman Petrey, Miami (1986)

William J. Sheppard, Jacksonville (1985)

Neil Chonin, Coral Gables (1984)

Philip John Padovano, Tallahassee (1983)

Ira J. Kurzban, Miami (1982)

Recipients of the Distinguished

Judicial Service Award

Hon. Virginia Baker Norton, Jacksonville (2017)

Hon. Cynthia L. Cox, Vero Beach (2016)

Hon. Ashley B. Moody, Tampa (2015)

Hon. Emily A. Peacock, Tampa (2014)

Hon. Claudia Rickert Isom, Tampa (2013)

Hon. James M. Barton, II, Tampa (2012)

Hon. Susan G. Sexton, Tampa (2011)

Hon. Nikki Ann Clark, Tallahassee (2010)

Hon. John Robert Blue (retired), St. Petersburg (2009)

Hon. Michael Francis Andrews, Clearwater (2008)

Hon. Lauren L. Brodie, Naples (2007)

Hon. Charles A. Francis, Tallahassee (2006)

Hon. William A. Van Nortwick, Jr., Tallahassee (2005)

Recipients of the Distinguished

Federal Judicial Service Award

Hon. Laurel Myerson Isicoff, Miami (2017)

Hon. Catherine Peek McEwen, Tampa (2016)

Recipients of the Chief Justice’s Law

Firm Commendation

Immigration Law Group of Florida, P.A. (2017)

Duane Morris LLP (2016)

Akerman LLP (2015)

Stichter, Riedel, Blain & Prosser, P.A. (2014)

Clark & Washington, P.C. (2013)

Fisher, Butts, Sechrest Warner & Palmer, P.A. (2012)

Foley & Lardner, LLP (2011)

Icard, Merrill, Cullis, Timm, Furen & Ginsburg, P.A.

(2010)

Hunton & Williams LLP (2010)

Fishback, Dominick, Bennett, Stepter, Ardaman, Ahlers,

Bolton & Langley LLP (2009)

City Attorney’s Ofﬁce, City of Tallahassee (2008)

Hogan & Hartson LLP (2007)

Messer & Messer (2007)

Johnson, Pope, Bokor, Ruppel & Burns LLP (2006)

Barrett & Barrett (2005)

Kozyak, Tropin & Throckmorton, P.A. (2004)

Carlton Fields (2003)

Markowitz, Davis, Ringel & Trusty, P.A. (2002)

Podhurst Orseck Josefsburg Eaton Meadow Olin &

Perwin, P.A. (2001)

Fisher & Sauls, P.A. (2000)

Thirteenth Judicial Circuit (1998)

The Broward County Attorney’s Ofﬁce, Ofﬁce of the Public

Defender (1997)

Fowler, White, Gillen, Boggs, Villareal and Banker, P.A.

(1995)

Steel Hector & Davis (1994)

Wooten, Honeywell & Kest, P.A. (1993)

Emmanuel, Sheppard & Condon (1992)

Greenberg, Traurig, Hoffman, Lipoff, Rosen & Quentelo,

P.A. (1991)

Fine Jacobson Schwartz Nash Block & England (1991)

Holland & Knight (1990)

Thomson, Zeder, Bohrer, Werth, Adorno & Razook (1985)

Recipients of the Chief Justice’s

Voluntary Bar Association Pro Bono

Service Award

Jacksonville Bar Association (2017)

Eighth Judicial Circuit Bar Association (2016)

Hillsborough Association for Women Lawyers (2015)

Central Florida Bankruptcy Law Association (2014)

Tampa Bay Hispanic Bar Association (2013)

St. Lucie County Bar Association (2012)

Tallahassee Women Lawyers (2011)

Seminole County Bar Association (2010)

Dade County Bar Association (2009)

Cuban American Bar Association (2008)

Bankruptcy Bar Association of the Southern District of

Florida (2007)

Hispanic Bar Association, Stetson College of Law (2006)

Clearwater Bar Association (2005)

Indian River County Bar Association (2003)

Jacksonville Bar Association (2002)

St. Petersburg Bar Association (2001)

Bankruptcy Bar Association of the Southern District of

Florida (2000)

Collier County Bar Association (1999)

Hillsborough Association for Women Lawyers, Inc. (1998)

Jacksonville Bar Association (1997)

Counsel for Cuban Detainees (1996)

Escambia/Santa Rosa Bar Association (1995)

The Legal Aid Foundation of the Tallahassee Bar Associa-

tion, Inc. (1994)

Put Something Back, A Joint Project of the Eleventh Judi-

cial Circuit and Dade County Bar Association (1993)

Orange County Bar Association (1992)

Hillsborough County Bar Association (1991)

Recipients of The Florida Bar’s

Young Lawyers Division Pro Bono

Service Award

Jennifer Edwards, Largo (2017)

Elisa J. D’Amico, Miami (2016)

Sara Alpert, Tampa (2015)

Laura E. Ward, Tampa (2014)

Rebecca Lauren Sosa, Miami (2013)

Timothy Allen Moran, Oviedo (2012)

Rachel May Zysk, Tampa (2011)

Monica Miller Evans, Tallahassee (2010)

Carin Manders Constantine, St. Petersburg (2009)

Heather Pinder Rodriguez, Orlando (2008)

Mac Richard McCoy, Tampa (2007)

Joseph F. Summonte, Jr., Sarasota (2006)

Melanie Emmons Damian, Miami (2005)

Thomas Alan Zehnder, Orlando (2004)

Laurel Francis Moore, Tampa (2003)

Lawrence Howard Kolin, Orlando (2002)

Jacqueline Hogan Scola, Miami (2001)

Steven H. Malone, West Palm Beach (2000)

Scott Edmonds Ray, Miami (1999)

Karen Josefsberg Ladis, Miami (1998)

Michelle Anchors, Tallahasssee (1997)

Robert Lowery Hamilton, Orlando (1996)

Cheryl Ada Elizabeth Little, Miami (1995)

A. Bryant Applegate, Orlando (1994)

Robert Alan Williams, Tallahassee (1993)

Recipients of The Florida Bar

President’s Pro Bono

Service Awards

2017

David H. Abrams, Tallahassee

Steven Lawrence Applebaum, Panama City

Brett Alan Barﬁeld, Miami

Laura J. Boeckman, Jacksonville

Jay S. Grife, St. Johns

Lynn Katz Hanshaw, Tampa

Kristie Hatcher-Bolin, Lakeland

Brigitta Hawkins, Titusville

Richard Francis Hussey, Fort Lauderdale

Brenda L. London, Winter Park

Joseph D. Lorenz, Fort Walton Beach

David L. Manz, Marathon

Mark Miller, Palm Beach Gardens

Peggy-Anne O’Connor, Gainesville

Samuel Pennington, Tavares

Christina Nieto Seifert, Lake City

Michele S. Stephan, Sarasota

Holly Tabernilla, West Palm Beach

Jonathan I. Tolentino, Naples

Laura Thayer Wagner, Atlanta, Georgia

Katherine Earle Yanes, Tampa

2016

Jennifer C. Anderson, Ponte Vedra

James V. Cook, Tallahassee

William H. “Bill” Drumm, Sarasota

Patricia A. Eables, Key West

Pamela L. Foels, Orlando

Kathryn “Kate” Hill, Vero Beach

Andrew J. Kamensky, New York, New York

Frederick Koberlein, Jr., Lake City

Lyndall “Lyndy” Lambert, Miami

Jason D. Lazarus, West Palm Beach

Lawrence J. Markell, Gulfport

Raymond T. McNeal, Ocala

Russell Miller-Thompson, Sunrise

Kelley Geraghty Price, Naples

Taras S. Rudnitsky, Longwood

Thomas Saunders, Bartow

Isabel “Cissy” Boza Sevelin, Thonotosassa

Robert L. Thirston, II, Panama City Beach

Patricia Vail, Jacksonville

Jason A. Waddell, Pensacola

Mary K. Wimsett, Gainesville

2015

Elizabeth S. Baker, Miami

Andrew R. Boyer, Sarasota

Kenneth Brooks, Jr., Milton

Samuel G. Crosby, Lakeland

Jimmy Allen Davis, Deltona

Michelle L. Farkas, Gainesville

Garrett A. Fenton, Washington, D.C.

Robert “Bob” Goldman, Key West

Bonnie Green, Lake City

Elizabeth L. “Betsey” Hapner, Tampa

Anne E. Hinds, Fort Lauderdale

Gregory T. Holtz, Estero

Michael G. Howard, Melbourne Beach

Jay Kim, Fort Lauderdale

Blane McCarthy, Jacksonville

Steven A. Messer, Port St. Lucie

Richard A. Perry, Ocala

Elizabeth Ricci, Tallahassee

Douglas L. Smith, Panama City

Frank C. Wesighan, Orlando

Brent A. Woody, Tarpon Springs

2014

Joseph L. Amos, Jr., Orlando

Virginia Marie Buchanan, Pensacola

Karen Meyer Buesing, Tampa

Maria Frances Caldarone, Vero Beach

A. Leigh Cangelosi, Branford

Susan V. Carroll, Panama City

J. Davis Connor, Lake Wales

Sonia R. Crockett, Tallahassee

William Walker Gallogly, Jacksonville

Timothy G. Hains, Naples

Michael Harshman, Lakewood Ranch

Amy U. Hickman, Boynton Beach

David Mangiero, Miami

Joseph M. Mason, Jr., Brooksville

William Fletcher McMurry, Louisville, Kentucky

Stephen Bruce Moss, Fort Lauderdale

Jessica L.C. Rae, St. Petersburg

David Joseph Rodziewicz, Ormond Beach

Gary Siegel, Sanford

David Van Loon, Key West

Nancy Ericksen Wright, Gainesville

2013

Bridget Ann Berry, West Palm Beach

Bruce Beuford Blackwell, Orlando

Jennings Kemp Brinson, Lakeland

Mary-Ellen Cross, Gainesville

Carolyn Davis Cummings, Tallahassee

Janice Joy “J.J. Dahl, Clermont

William Kenan DeBraal, Vero Beach

Frederick J. Gant, Pensacola

Steven D. Kramer, Altamonte Springs

Janella Kayla Leibovitz, Sarasota

Maxine Master Long, Miami

Emerson Lotzia, Jacksonville

Steven Wayne Marcus, Fort Lauderdale

James D. “Jim” McDonald, Venice

Robert Allan “Bob” Pell, Port St. Joe

Tania Romaine Schmidt-Alpers, St. Augustine

Leon Claudio Skornicki, New York, New York

David Elihu Steckler, Fort Myers

Monica Taibl, Live Oak

Jeanne Trudeau Tate, Tampa

Mary Vanden Brook, Key West

Jeannine Smith Williams, St. Petersburg

2012

Edmund T. Baxa, Jr., Orlando

Steven G. Cripps, West Palm Beach

Elizabeth Geary Daugherty, Fort Lauderdale

Sandra H. Day, Spring Hill

Michael Patrick Dickey, Panama City

Daniel John Endrizal, III, Fort Myers

Arthur Don Ginsburg, Sarasota

Leslie Smith Haswell, Gainesville

Charles Patterson Hoskin, Pensacola

Myriam Irizarry, Clearwater

Suzanne M. Judas, Jacksonville

James Anthony Kowalski, Jr., Saint Augustine

Wendy S. Loquasto, Tallahassee

Melissa Lea Mackiewicz, Baltimore, Maryland

Leenette Wilhelmina McMillan-Fredriksson, Mayo

Adrian J. “Stan” Musial, Jr., Tampa

Norman L. Paxton Jr., Fort Pierce

James F. Pollack, Miami

James Lawrence Torres, Indialantic

Deborah Lynn Wells, Bartow

Thomas Edward Woods, Tavernier

2011

Rosemary E. Armstrong, Tampa

Neal Jonathan Blaher, Maitland

Noah Clements, Washington, D.C.

Alan Roy Crane, Boca Raton

D. Todd Doss, Lake City

William W. Fernandez, Winter Springs

Bryan Scott Gowdy, Jacksonville

Michael Halpern, Key West

Daniel Lee Hightower, Ocala

Russell Thomas Kirshy, Port Charlotte

Lawrence G. Marin, Fort Lauderdale

Troy Harold Myers, Jr., Sarasota

Valerie Erwin Prevatte, Pensacola

Benjamine Reid, Miami

Stephen Russell Senn, Lakeland

Rudolph Carroll Shepard, Jr., Panama City

Shimene Ashlie Shepard-Ryan, Port Orange

Murray Bruce Silverstein, Tampa

Margaret Mitchem Stack, Gainesville

Thomas Warren Tierney, Vero Beach

Elizabeth Willard “Bib” Willis, Tallahassee

2010

Richard Lloyd Abedon, West Palm Beach

Rebeccah Lee Beller, Jacksonville

Caroline Kapusta Black, Tampa

William G. Bostick, Jr., St. Petersburg

Larry Ronald Chulock, Bradenton

Michael Jordan Cooper, Ocala

Robert Lee Dietz, Orlando

Kerry M. Donahue, Dublin, Ohio

Robert Steven Goldman, Tallahassee

Scott Douglas Krasny, Melbourne

Juliette Ellen Lippman, Fort Lauderdale

Dana Yvonne Moore, Winter Haven

John Edward Moore, III, Vero Beach

Gordon Charles Murray, Sr., Miami

Kathleen C. Passidomo, Naples

Stephen Lee Romine, Tampa

Robert Anthony Rush, Gainesville

Raven Elizabeth Sword, Daytona Beach

Monica Taibl, Madison

Timothy Michael Warner, Panama City

Thomas Edward Woods, Key West

2009

Todd Clifford Brister, Panama City

Melanie Freeman Chase, Lake Mary

Judith Duggan Davidson, Bunnell

Jean M. Finks, Punta Gorda

Thomas Carlton Gano, West Palm Beach

George Michael Germann, Spring Hill

Shari Thieman Greene, Gulf Breeze

Harry Charles Greenﬁeld, Merritt Island

Mark Edward Hill, Vero Beach

Robert C. Josefsberg, Miami

Albert Lewis Kelley, Key West

John Justin Kendron, Lake City

Heidi Davis Knapik, Fort Lauderdale

James Anthony Kowalski, Jr., Jacksonville

Stanley Morris Krawetz, Sarasota

William James Lobb, Bartow

Shannon McKenzie Miller, Gainesville

Gregory Keith Showers, Clearwater

Twyla Lawrene Sketchley, Tallahassee

Scott Alan Stichter, Tampa

Susan Voight Stucker, Orlando

Michael J. Willis, Kalamazoo, Mich.

2008

Debra Trevlyn Alexander, St. Augustine

Carlotta Appleman-Moniz, Panama City

Danelle Dykes Barksdale, Tampa

Morgan Ray Bentley, Sarasota

Dionne Maria Blaesing, New Port Richey

Ross Benjamin Bricker, Chicago, Illinois

Suzanne Smith Brownless, Tallahassee

Theodore Mark Burt, Trenton

Russell E. Carlisle, Fort Lauderdale

Melanie Emmons Damian, Miami

Patricia Ann Eables, Key West

James D. Francis, Jacksonville

Robert Eugene Fridley, Gainesville

Gary Randal Gossett, Jr., Sebring

John Richard Hamilton, Orlando

Amy Christine Hamlin, Longwood

Julie Hope Littky-Rubin, West Palm Beach

William Jemison Mims, Jr., Pensacola

Ginger Allison Miranda, Fort Pierce

Jack Arthur Moring, Crystal River

Melinda Paniagua Riddle, Naples

2007

Margaret M. Anderson, Vero Beach

Rita C. Chansen, Fort Myers

Robert Cintron, Key West

Philip Henry Elliott, Jr., Daytona Beach

Wendy Pamela Fischman, Rockville, Maryland

Walter Eugene Forehand, Tallahassee

Kelly B. Hardwick, III, Bartow

Nancy Carol Holliday-Fields, Lake City

Thomas Murray Jenks, Jacksonville

Marian Audrey Lindquist, Fort Lauderdale

Frank Edward Maloney, Jr., Macclenny

William Leonard Penrose, St. Petersburg

Michael Robert Reiter, Lynn Haven

Elisha D. Roy, Palm Beach Gardens

Neil William Scott, Sarasota

Lawrence Dean Silverman, Miami

Deborah M. Smith, Rockledge

Susan Voight Stucker, Apopka

Rollin Eric Tomberlin, Ocala

Arthur Richard Troell, III, Crestview

Sylvia H. Walbolt, Tampa

2006

Gwendolyn Palmer Adkins, Tallahassee

Matthew Gary Brenner, Orlando

P. Ause Brown Jr., Gainesville

Brian James Connelly, Vero Beach

Thomas Gene Freeman, Jr., Altamonte Springs

John Justin Kendron, Lake City

John Wesley Kozyak, Coral Gables

Janeice Trippe Martin, Naples

John Stewart Mills, Jacksonville

Larry Donald Murrell, Jr., West Palm Beach

Bryant Martin Richardson, Washington, D.C.

Douglas Julien Sale, Panama City

Charles H. Scruggs, Tampa

Stephen Russell Senn, Lakeland

Michael John Stebbins, Pensacola

Mary B. Steddom, Ocala

Julia Ann Soerpeboel, Palm Coast

Joseph Frank Summonte, Jr., Sarasota

Howard M. Talenfeld, Parkland

Elise Katherine Winters, Clearwater

2005

Matthew Patrick Coglianese, Miami

D. Patrick Dalton, Ocala

Martin Robert Dix, Tallahassee

Joanne Fanizza, Fort Lauderdale

William Robert Garrett, Panama City

Diego Handel, Daytona Beach

Beth Harlan, Lakeland

Nancy Carol Holliday-Fields, Lake City

Deborah Marie Hooker, Okeechobee

Richard Allen Horder, Atlanta, Georgia

Joseph Steven “Joe” Jackson, Gainesville

Aileen Naja Josephs, West Palm Beach

Jacqulyn Mack, Englewood

James Michael Magee, Orlando

Kathleen Schin McLeroy, Tampa

Michael I. Miller, Sanibel

Steven Edward Quinnell, Pensacola

Chad Steven Roberts, Jacksonville

Kenneth F. Tworoger, Micco

James M. “Van” Vanderplas, Indian Rocks Beach

Linda Beth Wheeler, Key West

2004

Chris M. Ballentine, Orlando

David A. Bentley, Washington, D.C.

John Joseph Cassidy, Jr., Naples

Robert Saul Cohen, Tallahassee

Irwin A. Connelly, Bunnell

Walter Merritt Green, Gainesville

Nancy Wood Gregoire, Fort Lauderdale

Michael Louis Guttmann, Pensacola

Jack Helinger, St. Petersburg

Allen Nathaniel Jelks, Jr., Panama City

Robert Conrad Meyer, Miami

Guy W. Norris, Lake City

Joseph N. Nusbaum, Boca Raton

Paulette R. Pace, Bradenton

Richard A. Perry, Ocala

Alan Matthew Pickert, Jacksonville

Christine E. Puto-Murray, Marathon

Portia Beth Scott, Stuart

Sheryl Diane Snodgrass, Lakeland

Edward M. Waller, Jr., Tampa

2003

Catherine F. Ackerman, Ocala

Sher L. Allan, Panama City

Susan Meyer Barber, Lake Wales

Paul Richard Berg, Vero Beach

Susan H. Bingham, St. Petersburg

Kathleen McCarthy Bishop, Perry

F. Blane Carneal, Fort Lauderdale

Bruce Richard Conroy, Tallahassee

Susan Fagan, Daytona Beach

Daniel Patrick Faherty, Cocoa

Richard James Fowler, Key West

Gary Lloyd Kornfeld, West Palm Beach

Richard A. Leigh, Winter Park

Christopher Alan Likens, Sarasota

Katherine Bliss Para, Jacksonville

Sharon W. Potter, Pensacola

James Randall Stokes, Pensacola

Cynthia Stump Swanson, Gainesville

Jacqueline Marie Valdespino, Miami

Gwynne Alice Young, Tampa

2002

N. Albert Bacharach, Jr., Gainesville

Thomas Richard Bakkedahl, Fort Pierce

Robert Thomas Bergin, Jr., West Palm Beach

John Thomas David, Fort Lauderdale

Celia Ellen Deiﬁk, Naples

Jerry W. Gerde, Panama City

John Michael Keller, Brooksville

David Patrick Kirwan, Marathon

Alex D. Littleﬁeld, Jr., Tallahassee

Merette Oweis, Lakeland

James Justice Partlow, Sanford

Robert Louis Peters, Jr., Fernandina Beach

Richard Barton Ray, Bradenton

Patricia Ann Redmond, Miami

James Clayton Runyon, St. Petersburg

Hala A. Sandridge, Tampa

Thomas Edward Stone, Madison

Maurice Wagner, Deltona

G. Charles Wohlust, Winter Park

2001

Bryan Lee Albers, St. Petersburg

Nina Nigest Ashenaﬁ, Tallahassee

Michael S. Becker, Daytona Beach

Mark Alan Bednar, Pensacola

Jeffry Jon Branham, Orlando

Thomas W. Brown, Lake City

J. Kevin Carey, Tampa

Lawrence Gordon Chadband, Lakeland

Mary Day Coker, Gainesville

Billy Joe Hoot Crawford, Panama City

Josephine Gagliardi, Fort Myers

Peter Thomas Gianino, Stuart

Marvin C. Gutter, Fort Lauderdale

Edward Pendleton Jackson, Jacksonville

Gerald Israel Kornreich, Miami

John Edwin Moxley, Ocala

William O’Neil, III, Longboat Key

Adam D. Palmer, Boca Raton

Julie Glocker Pierce, Melbourne

Helen Howell Sundgren, Naples

Richard E. Warner, Marathon

2000

Anne V. Gallagher Alper, Fort Lauderdale

Deborah J. Andrews, Ponte Vedra Beach

Joy Anne Bartmon, Boca Raton

Conrad Cecil “Sonny” Bishop, III, Perry

Mikele Stander Carter, Blairsville, Georgia

Russell Lyle Cheatham, III, St. Petersburg

John Richard Cook, Okeechobee

John David Dumbaugh, Sarasota

Susan Whaley Fox, Tampa

Amy Ellen Goodblatt, Orlando

Alexander John Gordon, Punta Gorda

Larry D. Hardaway, Lakeland

Bruce Edward Hoffman, Gainesville

Samuel S. Jacobson, Jacksonville

M. Catherine Lannon, Tallahassee

Patrick M. Magill, Orlando

Joel Margules, Panama City

John W. Merting, Pensacola

Keith Marshall Schenck, Inverness

Holly R. Skolnick, Miami

Joseph J. Vetrick, Key Largo

1999

Calvin Joseph Allen, Key West

Robert Lee Appleget, Jr., Ocala

Terry Lytle Bledsoe, Altamonte Springs

James Andrew Conway, Stuart

George T. Dunlap, III, Bartow

Ross Mathew Goodman, Pensacola

Lloyd C. Hawthorne, Live Oak

A. Margaret Hesford, Lauderdale Lakes

David Albert King, Orange Park

Elizabeth R. Mannion, Clearwater

Sidney Lewis Matthew, Tallahassee

Catherine Gail Novack, Tampa

Marilyn Wolf Peterson, Gainesville

Lawrence James Phalin, Orlando

Stephen Ralph Ponder, Daytona Beach

Bonnie Kay Roberts, Bonifay

Richard Brian Simring, Miami

Kurt Alan Streyffeler, Fort Myers

Stanley Robert Swartz, Bradenton

Gary A. Woodﬁeld, Palm Beach

1998

Jodi Marie Anderson, Tavares

Gypsy Cowherd Bailey, Tallahassee

Charles Bennett Bollinger, III, Panama City

Jill Jacob Burzynski, Naples

A. Thomas Connick, Jr., Deerﬁeld Beach

Mary Alice Ferrell, Sarasota

Frank M. Gafford, Lake City

Robert James Gorman, Fort Pierce

Lynne Hankins Fielder, Key West

Kelly B. Hardwick, III, Bartow

Norberto Sergio Katz, Orlando

Joseph D. Lorenz, Fort Walton Beach

Margaret Diane Mathews, Tampa

Joseph Clay Meux, Sr., Jacksonville

Roger W. Plata, St. Petersburg

Robert Rivas, Boca Raton

Phyllis M. Rosier, Starke

Vance Edwin Salter, Miami

Dwight W. Severs, Titusville

Michael Bryant Wingo, Daytona Beach

Howard Jeffrey Wunderlich, East Islip, New York

1997

Leonard Albert Barrow, Jr., Melbourne

Bruce Beuford Blackwell, Orlando

Barbara Ann Burns, Chicago, Illinois

Raymond Francis Brady, Gainesville

Susan Lynn Chapman, Sarasota

Stephen Herre Echsner, Pensacola

Joseph P. George, Jr., Key West

Alice Julia Graves, Vero Beach

Frank Allan Kreidler, Lake Worth

Henry Latimer, Fort Lauderdale

Dominic C. MacKenzie, Jacksonville

Teresa Byrd Morgan, Lake City

Kimberlee Ann Nagel, Lakeland

Stewart Oliver Olson, St. Petersburg

Abigail Price Williams, Miami

Warren Russell Ross, Punta Gorda

Lou Tally, Mount Dora

Cerese Crawford Taylor, Tampa

Timothy Michael Warner, Panama City

Sarah Hague White, Daytona Beach (posthumously)

Harriet Williams Williams, Tallahassee

1996

Louis Vincent Cianfrogna, Titusville

Graham Clarke, Panama City

Ivan Kensey Clements, Jr., Deland

Cynthia L. Cox, Vero Beach

Robert Franklin Dallas, Atlanta, Georgia

Jessica Calvert Dumas, Jacksonville

Sara Vermelle Fielding, Lakeland

Josephine Gagliardi, Fort Myers

Cary Augustus Hardee, II, Madison

William Charles Henry, Bradenton

John Alexander Jabro, Key Largo

Charles Daniel Jamieson, West Palm Beach

Richard Thomas Jones, Gainesville

John Marshall Kest, Orlando

Nancy Moate Ley, Clearwater

William Douglas Marsh, Pensacola

Robert A. Mick, Tallahassee

Richard Craig Milstein, Miami

David Thomas Price, Deerﬁeld Beach

Gilbert Michael Singer, Tampa

Carol Ann Volini, Ocala

1995

J. Victor Africano, Jr., Live Oak

Thomas Porter Bell, Pembroke Pines

Joye Marie Clayton, Gainesville

Jane Louise Cornett, Stuart

Caroline Carthage Emery, Jacksonville

Jonathan Edward Hausburg, Sarasota

Harley Herman, Leesburg

David Brooks Kundin, Tallahassee

Warren Thomas LaFray, Clearwater

Alan Isaac Mishael, Miami

Carol C. Murphy, Lakeland

Harold D. Oehler, Tampa

Julie Lynne Ozburn, Holly Hill

Christopher Nida Patterson, Panama City

Melinda Paniagua Riddle, Naples

Louis Kahn Rosenbloum, Pensacola

Siobhan Helene Shea, Palm Beach

Tegan Slaton, Key West

Pearl Crosby Smith, Cocoa

William David Wallace, Washington, D.C.

Dorothea Watson, Orlando

1994

J. Nickolas Alexander, Jr., Orange Park

Brian Peter Battaglia, St. Petersburg

Jerri Ann Blair, Tavares

Edwin M. Boyer, Sarasota

Kathryn Eckerlein Errington, Pensacola

Nancy Wood Gregoire, Fort Lauderdale

Charlene G. Guller, Key West

Christine P. Hissam, Naples

Frederick Laurence Koberlein, Lake City

Clark David Lochridge, Fern Park

Alexander C. MacKinnon, Orlando

Ellen Sly Masters, Bartow

Elizabeth Maria Schwabedissen, Miami

Robert Alan Shimberg, Tampa

Anne Talbot, Washington, D.C.

Joseph Tomberg, Wabasso

Robert L. Travis, Jr., Quincy

Frank D. Upchurch, III, St. Augustine

Terence John Watterson, Palm Beach Gardens

Jeffrey Pat Whitton, Panama City

E.A.W. “Pan” Zettler, Williston

1993

Michael Alan Bedke, Tampa

Charlotte Elaine Brayer, Tallahassee

Matthew James Comisky, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Richard Domenick Custureri, Ocala

John Fletcher Daniel, Panama City

William E. Evans, Jr., Bartow

Linnes Finney, Jr., Fort Pierce

William Stephen Graessle, Jacksonville

David Brian Haber, Coral Gables

Michael Halpern, Key West

Jane Kreusler Walsh, West Palm Beach

Michael Leddy O’Neill, Daytona Beach

George Thomas Paulk, II, Cocoa Beach

James M. Russ, Orlando

Robert P. Scheb, Sarasota

Jeanne Marie Reichrath Singer, Gainesville

James Dunwoody Swearingen, Pensacola

Allan Howard Terl, Fort Lauderdale

Craig Christopher Villanti, New Port Richey

Robert David Young, North Fort Myers

1992

Janice F. Bessinger, Lake City

Ronald Ira Cole, Ocala

Richard J. D’Amico, Ormond Beach

Karen A. Gievers, Miami

Pierce James Guard, Jr., Lakeland

Ralph Vincent “Terry” Hadley, III, Winter Park

Randall Wayne Hanna, Tallahassee

Jeffrey Allen King, Sarasota

Karen Boroughs Lopez, St. Petersburg

Linda Weinhold McIntyre, Coral Springs

Roger N. Messer, Port St. Lucie

David W. Palmer, Destin

Marina Stevens Roach, Naples

Robert M. W. Shalhoub, West Palm Beach

F. Emory Springﬁeld, Gainesville

Edward Leonard Stahley, Merritt Island

William A. Van Nortwick, Jr., Jacksonville

William Gerard Warner, Panama City

John W. Wilcox, Tampa

1991

Eddie Mack Anderson, Lake City

Mitzi Cockrell Austin, Gainesville

Vanda Y. Bayliss, Sarasota

M. Robert Blanchard, Pensacola

Sara Blumberg, Boynton Beach

M. Thomas Bond, Jr., Ocala

Timothy Craig Campbell, Panama City

Samuel George Crosby, Lakeland

V. James Dickson, St. Petersburg

Theresa Bland Edwards, Fort Lauderdale

Donald Arthur Gifford, Tampa

Diego Handel, Ormond Beach

William Huggett, Miami

Sally Dee Millward Kest, Orlando

Wayne Raymond McDonough, Vero Beach

John Michael Passidomo, Naples

George “Buddy” E. Schulz, Jr., Jacksonville

Steven P. Shea, Marathon

William Eugene Sizemore, Tampa

William Mark Stern, Maitland

David Gregory Tucker, Tallahassee

1990

Martin Gerald Brooks, Hollywood

Pamela Arianne Brown, Deland

Patrick Desmond Doherty, Clearwater

Patrick James Faucheux, Panama City

Ricardo A. Fernandez, Tampa

Gwendolyn Elaine E. Gibson, Jacksonville

James Kellogg Green, West Palm Beach

Pierce James Guard, Jr., Lakeland

Douglas Martin Halsey, Miami

Charles Emil Heim, Jr., Indian Harbour Beach

Norman Linder Hull, Orlando

Michael W. Johnson, Ocala

Martha Ann Lott, Gainesville

Pamela S. Mac’Kie, Naples

Donald Francis O’Connell, Venice

Karen Lynn Oehme, Tallahassee

Timothy McManus Ryan, Dania

Evett Louise Simmons, Port St. Lucie

Daniel Mark Soloway, Pensacola

Joseph Bryan Wolkowsky, Tavernier

1989

Herbert Lee Allen, Jr., Orlando

Sandra Gail Atkins, Panama City

Robert B. Bennett, Jr., Sarasota

Barbara A. Burkett, Gainesville

Pamela D. Cichon, Daytona Beach

William Gentry Crawford, Jr., Hollywood

Marlin Marion Feagle, Lake City

G. Tiny Geiger, Tampa

Charlotte I. Hunter, Ocala

Jeffrey Michael Kirsch, Stuart

David J. Lillesand, Miami

Julie Osterhout, Cape Coral

Robert E. Pyle, Winter Haven

Kenneth Steven Rappaport, Boca Raton

Louis Francis Ray, Jr., Pensacola

Richard M. Smith, Tallahassee

Robert E. Warren, Jacksonville

Thomas Edmondson Whigham, Sanford

Douglas Mark Williamson, St. Petersburg

1988

Robert Lee Appleget, Jr., Ocala

Rosemary E. Armstrong, Tampa

Jean Gillespie Booher, Fort Lauderdale

Joseph Glenn Bywater, Lakeland

John B. Carr, Pensacola

Clyde Mabry Collins, Jr., Jacksonville

Meredith Craig, St. Petersburg

Donald N. Crowell, Orlando

Thomas E. Cushman, St. Augustine

John Paul Fleck, Jr., Bradenton

Crisse Bates Foster, Palm Bay

Kathleen Carol Fox, Gainesville

William Adams Lewis, Panama City

John Bolling Powell, IV, West Palm Beach

Maurice Rosen, North Miami Beach

Robert A. Sandow, Live Oak

Joan Stewart, Tallahassee

David Clayton Weigel, Naples

Carol Ann Wolf, Tavernier

1987

Terrence William Ackert, Orlando

William H. Andrews, Jacksonville

Dan Phillip Brawley, Lakeland

Rowlett W. Bryant, Panama City

Charles J. B. Cino, Daytona Beach

Patrick G. Emmanuel, Pensacola

Thomas Kenwood Equels, Miami

Bobbie Lee Eubank, Gainesville

Saxton Robert Gaskin, III, Clearwater

Julian R. Hanley, Naples

Stephen P. Hoskins, Fort Pierce

Alice Ruth Huneycutt, Tampa

William Hamlin Kilby, Fort Lauderdale

Gregory Charles Meissner, Bradenton

Steven Lauren Seliger, Quincy

Charles Raymond Stepter, Jr., Orlando

Michael A. Viscomi, West Palm Beach

1986

Samuel Thomas Adams, Panama City

Ronald V. Alvarez, West Palm Beach

Marvin Wecker Bingham, Jr., Gainesville

Jack Thomas Edmund, Bartow

Sally Harris Foote, Clearwater

Sandra Torcise Fowler, Key West

Kenneth Roy Hart, Tallahassee

Harry Michael Hipler, Dania

H. Randolph Klein, Ocala

Richard Craig Milstein, Coral Gables

Samuel John Morley, Pensacola

John G. Pare, Tampa

John C. Patterson, Jr., Sarasota

Gerald Sheldon Rutberg, Casselberry

Kimberly Sands, Daytona Beach

Stephen Duane Thompson, Fort Myers

Louis B. Vocelle, Jr., Vero Beach

Waddell Arlie Wallace, II, Jacksonville

Michael Raymond Walsh, Orlando

1985

Terrence William Ackert, Orlando

Joan Helen Bickerstaff, Melbourne

Michael Lee Bryant, Gainesville

Henry M. “Hank” Coxe, III, Jacksonville

Michael Dubiner, West Palm Beach

Jose Antonio Garrido, Jr., Miami

John C. Guerriero, Fort Pierce

James W. Kynes, Tampa

Susan Sheppard Lazier, Key West

Walter W. Manley, II, Lakeland

David Paul Montgomery, Bradenton

Cathi C. O’Halloran, Tallahassee

John Michael Passidomo, Naples

Ronald Greg Thornton, Port Richey

John Dirfﬁe Tyler, Daytona Beach

R. John Westberry, Pensacola

William J. Zloch, Fort Lauderdale

1984

Jon Harmon Anderson, Lakeland

Robert Stanley Appleton, Marathon

William Reid Clifton, Cocoa

Cecil L. Davis, Jr., Tallahassee

Kenneth S. Davis, Gainesville

Rafael E. “Ralph” Fernandez, Tampa

Donald T. Franke, Naples

Samuel R. Hillman, Clearwater

Walton B. Hunter, Tavares

Thorwald John Husfeld, Deland

Milton Kelner, Miami

Robert Gordon Kerrigan, Pensacola

Carroll L. McCauley, Panama City

Hugh T. Maloney, Fort Lauderdale

Richard Joseph R. Parkinson, Orlando

John “Jack” Scarola, West Palm Beach

William J. Sheppard, Jacksonville

1983

Harvey Martin Alper, Altamonte Springs

Ben F. Barnes, Marianna

William Bill Barnett, Orlando

Neil Chonin, Coral Gables

Julian Edward Collins, Lake City

Linda A. Conahan, Fort Lauderdale

Burton Cornell Conner, Okeechobee

Whitney Hugh Cotney, Jacksonville

Joseph Cardwell Fuller, Fort Myers

Harry Allison Johnston, II, West Palm Beach

Jacalyn Nichols Kolk, Tampa

Philip John Padovano, Tallahassee

Shon Alan Saxon, Gainesville

W. Denis Shelley, Daytona Beach

James Vanderplas, Indian Rocks Beach

Robert Arthur Young, Bartow

1982

Ralph Artigliere, Lakeland

Kenneth S. Beall, Jr., Palm Beach

Russell E. Carlisle, Fort Lauderdale

William M. Chanfrau, Daytona Beach

Leon Blakely Cheek, III, Altamonte Springs

Irwin A. Connelly, Bunnell

C. Andrew Coomes, Orlando

Lyman T. Fletcher, Jacksonville

Clara Floyd Gehan, Gainesville

Judith Ann Ginn, Wildwood

Baya Harrison, III, Tallahassee

Mayo C. Johnston, Panama City

Ira J. Kurzban, Miami

Michael S. Moreland, Fort Myers

Michael F. Novilla, St. Petersburg

Stephan Jay Ross, Tampa

Richard J. Saliba, Fort Pierce