Attorney Profiles

Year Joined Organization

• 1993

Areas of Practice

• Litigation & Appeals
• Probate & Estate Administration
• Guardianships & Conservatorships

Bar Admissions

• Florida, 1981
• U.S. District Court Middle District of Florida, 1984
• U.S. Supreme Court, 1988

Education

• Stetson University College of Law, St. Petersburg, Florida, 1981
  J.S.
  Honors: Cum Laude
  Honors: Freshman Moot Court Outstanding Brief
  Honors: Moot Court Student Judge
  Honors: American Jurisprudence Book Awards in Criminal Law & Ethics
  Law Review: Stetson Law Review, Member
  
  
• Eckerd College, St Petersburg, Florida, 1968
  B.A.
  Major: English Literature
  
  

Published Works

• The Role of the Attorney (Ethics), Florida Bar Manual on Guardianships

Classes/Seminars Taught

• Speaker, Seminars on Guardianship, Probate, and Baker Acts, Continuing Legal Education
• Lecturer, Guardianship Education Classes, St. Petersburg Junior College

Honors and Awards

• Teaching Assistant, Research & Writing, Stetson Law School
• Trial Advocacy Society, Stetson Law School
• Women-in-Law, Stetson Law School

Professional Associations and Memberships

• The Florida Bar, Probate Rules Committee
  Past Member
  
  
• The Florida Bar
  Member
  
  
• St. Petersburg Bar Association
  Member
  
  
• Former Editorial Staff of the Paraclete
  
  
• Family Law Section
  Liaison with the Clerk Committee, Past Member
  
  
• 1994 Law Week Committee
  
  
• Florida Association of Women Lawyers, Pinellas County Chapter, 1994
  South County Director and Program Chairman
  
  

Past Employment Positions

• Sixth Judicial Circuit, General Master, 1989 - 1993
• Sixth Judicial Circuit, Trial Court Staff Attorney, 1989
• Law Office of Alan R. Williams, Associate, 1984 - 1985
• Fifth Circuit Court of Appeal, Hon. Melvin Orfinger, Judicial Aide, 1981 - 1982
• Johnson, Blakely, Pope, Bokor and Ruppel, P.A., Law Clerk
• Professor Ruth Thurman, Stetson College of Law, Teaching Assistant
• Florida Department of Health and Rehabilitative Services, Quality Control Supervisor, Quality Control Analyst, Social Worker, 1968 - 1978

Fraternities/Sororities

• Phi Alpha Delta

Birth Information

• 1946, St. Petersburg, Florida