LEADERSHIP COUNCIL MEMBER BIOGRAPHIES

Dr. Robert B. Bradley (Bob), Co Chair, Leadership Council, is a tenured Professor in the Askew School of Public Administration and Policy, Vice President for Planning and Programs, and Director of the Institute of Science and Public Affairs (ISPA) at State University. Dr. Bradley is in charge of the university’s budget and is responsible for academic planning. He received his Bachelor of Science degree in physics with High Honors, and his Ph.D. in political science from the University of Florida. Areas of interest include state and local government, public policy and management, budgeting and administration, data analysis and statistics, and urban issues. Dr. Bradley has served in a number of positions in state government including state budget officer during the Chiles Administration and published on issues ranging from state policy to intergovernmental relations. Most recently, he helped author the university strategic plan. He has served as the Chair of the Florida Conflict Resolution Consortium’s Advisory Council and his awards and achievements include, Public Administrator of the Year, American Society for Public Administration: North Florida Chapter, 1996, State Nominee, Program for Senior Executives in State and Local Government, Harvard University, 1998, Distinguished Service Award, Florida Chief Information Officers Association, 1999,Honorary Membership Award, National Association of State Budget Officers, 1999.

Linda Loomis Shelley, Co-Chair, Leadership Council, is an Managing Shareholder, Government, Environment and Real Estate Practice Leader, at Fowler White Boggs in Tallahassee. She has served previously as Chief of Staff, Florida Department of Insurance, Office of the Treasurer & State Fire Marshall, Assistant Executive Director, Florida Residential Property & Casualty, Joint Underwriting Association, Chief of Staff, Office of the Governor, Secretary, Florida Department of Community Affairs, Partner with Dixon, Blanton & Shelley, Tallahassee, General Counsel and Assistant General Counsel to Governor Bob Graham, General Counsel, Florida Department of Community Affairs, Associate with Corlett, Merritt, Killian & Sikes. She served on the Advisory Council for the Florida Conflict Resolution Consortium, chair of the Associated Industries of Florida, Florida Development and Infrastructure Council: chair of the Federal Judicial Nominating Commission, Northern District, Leadership Florida and the Board of Trustees, University of Florida Law Center Association. She has been listed on the Best Lawyers in America, 2006- 2012 and a member of the Florida Legal Elite, Hall of Fame, Florida Trend, 2009-2011.

1 B. Lester Abberger, III, is senior consultant to the Kirkpatrick Pettis Investment Banking firm, managing partner of Florida Lobby Associates, and a limited partner of Hometown Neighborhoods, Inc., a new urbanist real estate investment, development, and consulting concern. He is a director of M & S Banks, a trustee of the National Trust for the Humanities, chairman of the Seaside Institute, and chairman of the Florida Conservation Campaign. He serves on the boards of The Conservation Campaign, the LeRoy Collins Institute at Florida State University, 1000 Friends of Florida, the LeRoy Collins-Leon County Public Library System, the Museum of Florida History, and the George A Smathers Libraries of the University of Florida. He is a Knight Fellow at the University of School of Architecture. Charles H. Bronson is a fifth generation Floridian, born into a ranching family in Kissimmee, Florida. Bronson graduated from Osceola High School and from the University of Georgia in 1972, earning a B.S. degree in agricultural education and animal and meat sciences. He worked in the fertilizer, chemical and sod business and ultimately managed the family’s cattle business in Central Florida. A certified law enforcement officer, Bronson served as a reserve deputy in both Miami-Dade and Brevard counties. He was elected to the in 1994, representing a district that encompassed both Brevard and Osceloa counties, and reelected in 1998. He served as chairman of both counties’ legislative delegations, and chairman of the Florida Senate’s Agriculture and Consumer Services committee and its Natural Resources Committee. He is the former Florida Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Services and Cabinet member. He was Initially appointed to serve as the 10th Commissioner in May 2001 by Governor to fill the un-expired term of outgoing Commissioner Crawford. Mr. Bronson was elected to the post in a statewide election in November 2002, and re-elected in November 2006. He has served as the President of the Southern Association of State Departments of Agriculture and received numerous honors and awards including an FFA Honorary National Degree for outstanding personal commitment, a Nature Conservancy Legislative Leadership Appreciation Award, a Florida Farm Bureau Legislative Award, and both Florida Sheriff’s and Florida Police Chief Association’s Legislative Awards.

Glenda E. Hood serves as President & chief executive officer of Hood Partners LLC.Ms. A fourth-generation Floridian, Hood was born in Orlando and graduated from Oak Ridge High School there. She attended Rollins College, where she obtained a bachelor’s degree in Spanish. She completed the Executive Program at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, the Society of International Business Fellows Program at Georgia State University and the Mayor's Urban Design Institute at the University of Virginia. Hood served as chair the State of Florida Domestic Security Advisory Panel. She was appointed to the U. S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary's Homeland Security Advisory Council, the State and Local Officials and Private Sector Senior Advisory Committees, and chaired the Administration Transition Task Force where she served through February 2009. Ms. Hood served as Secretary of State of Florida, from 2003 to 2005, and the first woman to serve as Mayor of Orlando (1992–2003). Ms. Hood served as a district commissioner for the City of Orlando from 1982 to 1992, when she was elected Mayor. She was re-elected to 4- year terms as mayor in 1996 and 2000. Before her election to the Orlando City Council, she had served as Vice-Chairman of the Municipal Planning Board and Zoning Commission, member of the Nominating Board and Chairman of the Task Force on Board and

2 Commission Restructure. She also has served as President of the National League of Cities, the Florida League of Cities, and the Florida Chamber of Commerce.

She currently serves as the Chair of the Executive Committee of the national non profit, Partners for Livable Communities, where she has been a past board chair and member of the Board of Trustees for ten years. She also received their Founders Award for Civic Leadership. She serves as a fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration, an active participant with the Urban Land Institute’s (ULI) Advisory Services panels, ULI’s Daniel Rose Center for Land Use and Leadership and served on the Urban Land Institute’s Mayor’s Council. She is a Director of Florida's Blood Centers, Inc. and she serves as Director of Santa Fe HealthCare and Baskerville-Donovan, Inc. as well as on the board of the national profit, Afterschool Alliance, an organization that works to support after school programs for all children. Ms. Hood has served on the Boards of the Council of 100 (private, non-profit, non-partisan organization on business issues), the Base Realignment Advisory Commission (BRAC), and the Florida Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA), Ms. Hood served as President of the National League of Cities. She served as Chairman of the City Council. She served as Chairman of the Board of the Florida Chamber of Commerce. She served as the Chairman of Lynx. She serves as a Director of Urban Trust Bank. She served as a Board Member of the Orlando Utilities Commission, Metro Plan and the Greater Orlando Aviation Authority. Ms. Hood served as a Director of Enterprise Florida Inc. She served with the Volunteer Service Bureau, the Economic Development Commission of Mid-Florida, and her service on the Board of numerous organizations, including the Partnership for Civic Change Board of the PEW Charitable Trust. She is a trustee of the Florida Chamber Foundation and a trustee of the Florida Trust for Historic Preservation; a board member of Florida's Gubernatorial Fellows Program, the Boy Scout Central Florida Council; and member of Arnold Palmer Hospital National Advisory Council. Ms. Hood was awarded the Mary Harriman Community Leadership award by The Association of Junior Leagues International, Inc. and is a member of the Junior League of Greater Orlando, serving as the League's President from 1982–1983.

Lila Jaber is a shareholder and leader of the Government Affairs practice for Gunster P.A. where her practice areas include: Government Affairs & Public Policy, Economic Development & Incentives, Energy, Utilities & Telecommunications, Energy Project Development & Finance, Florida Legislative & Executive Lobbying, Green & Sustainable Development, Energy & Climate Change, Local Government Advocacy and Chapter 501 Inquiries. Twice appointed to the Florida’s Public Service Commission (PSC) by Governor Jeb Bush, Ms. Jaber served as both Commissioner and Chairman. Prior to that she served on the PSC staff and worked with the Conflict Resolution Consortium in a mediation pilot on water issues. She serves as a board member of Workforce Florida, Inc., and as Chair of Leadership Florida. She is a Certified Circuit Court Mediator and serves as a Senior Fellow at the University of Florida Public Utility Research Center. Ms. Jaber co-authored “Defining Green Jobs for Florida” and is fluent in Arabic.

3 Leerie T. Jenkins Jr., FASLA has been with Reynolds, Smith and Hills, Inc. for approximately 40 years. After completing graduate school, Leerie joined RS&H in 1972 as a project planner. In 1982, he was appointed President and Chief Executive Officer of RS&H's North Carolina operation. In 1987, after a change in company ownership, Leerie returned to Jacksonville and was installed as COO of the new Hunter/RS&H in July and later that year was named President and CEO of the company. The employees of Reynolds, Smith and Hills, Inc., led by Leerie, reaffirmed their commitment of performing as a trusted and respected multidisciplinary professional firm in the southeast by purchasing the assets and name of the company. This change enabled the new RS&H to utilize its long-established expertise and reputation to meet the needs of its clients. Leerie was elected Chairman, President and CEO of the newly formed Reynolds, Smith and Hills, Inc. in June 1990. Mr. Jenkins has served as chair of the Florida Chamber of Commerce, the Jacksonville Chamber of Commerce and Leadership Florida. Currently he serves as Jacksonville Branch Director of Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta and is a Director of Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Florida. He serves as a member of the Florida Council of 100. He served previously on the FDOT Strategic Intermodal System Plan Committee that was facilitated by the FCRC. Mr. Jenkins received his Bachelors of Landscape Architecture from the University of Georgia in 1970 and his Masters Degree from the University of Michigan in 1972.

Harry Lerner is the President and Founder of Lerner Real Estate Advisors, formerly Maxcy Development Group, a full service development company providing asset management services to land owners and institutional investors for single and multi use real estate projects. Previously he was vice president of Atlantic Gulf Communities, where he managed the Company's Tampa Bay operations from 1995 through 2002. Communities included West Meadows in New Tampa, Mira Bay in South Shore and Rivercrest in Riverview. Prior to Tampa was responsible for obtaining entitlements for the GDC and Atlantic Gulf portfolio, acquisitions for Atlantic Gulf throughout the southeast United States and was involved in the GDC bankruptcy, assisting in the valuation of the Company's assets and developing a plan to emerge from Bankruptcy. He has a Bachelors degree in Economics at the Florida State University and a Masters off Science, Urban and Regional Planning. In 2010 Recipient of the Distinguished Alumni from the College of Social Sciences and Public Policy.

Larry “Bud” Meyer, known as Bud to his friends, is president and CEO of Meyer Communications LLC, a strategic communications consultancy for foundations and nonprofits. He served as vice president of communications and the chief communications strategist with the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation for 14 years. Before joining Knight Foundation, Meyer spent 15 years with The Miami Herald, the last four as executive assistant to the publisher. Meyer held several newsroom positions, including assistant news editor with responsibility for the Sunday edition. He also worked at The Fort Myers News- Press, the Hannibal Courier-Post and the Columbia Missourian. He is chair emeritus of the Communications Network, and chaired the Council on Foundations constituent communications committee. Meyer has a bachelor's degree in journalism from the Missouri School, and a masters from Harvard’s Kennedy School. He is past chairman of of the

4 Communications network and is married to Anne Robertson and lives in Miami, Fla., and Rappahannock County, Va.

David L. Powell, shareholder with Hopping, Green & Sams in Tallahassee, represents private and public-sector clients throughout Florida on residential, commercial, industry and resort developments and master-planned communities in urban settings. before local and state agencies, courts and elected bodies on land use and zoning, development entitlements, growth management and local government matters. He advises lenders, bondholders and trustees on entitlement-related issues in foreclosures and workouts. He served as a member of the Transportation and Land Use Study Committee, which recommended transportation concurrency laws enacted by the Legislature in 1999, as Chairman, of the Public Schools Construction Study Commission, which recommended school concurrency laws enacted by the Legislature in 1998 and 2005, and as Executive Director of the Environmental Land Management Study (ELMS III) Committee, which recommended state land use and growth management laws enacted by the Legislature in 1993. Prior to his legal career, Mr. Powell served as a reporter with the Associated Press in New York, Miami bureaus, and Bureau Chief in Tallahassee Reporter, and as a report for the St. Petersburg Times, 1981-1983, and the Florida Times-Union (Tallahassee bureau), 1984. He serves as an Adjunct Professor, Florida State University College of Law, teaching "Planned Communities" course. He graduated from Florida State University, J.D. with high honors, 1986; Order of the Coif, serving as Editor-in-Chief, Florida State University Law Review, from Columbia University, M.S., and the University of Texas at Austin, bachelor in journalism. He is a member of the Florida Bar, the Urban Land Institute, and the Congress for the New Urbanism. He has served as chairman of Leadership Florida and a member of its Board of Regents, member of the Florida Chamber of Commerce Board of Governors, the FCRC Consensus Center Advisory Council and the Tallahassee Chamber of Commerce Board of Diretors. He has been listed in Chamber USA, "America's Leading Lawyers" and "Leaders in Their Field" for Real Estate: Zoning/Land Use, 2007-2010, in Best Lawyers in America, for Real Estate Law and Land Use/Zoning Law, 2001-2012 Editions, in"Florida Super Lawyers", for Land Use/Zoning Law, in the annual publication of the Florida Super Lawyers, 2006-2011 Edition, and in the Best Lawyers "Lawyers of the Year" for Florida (Tallahassee region) in 2011 for Land Use & Zoning and in 2012 for Real Estate Law.

Ken Pruitt serves as Property Appraiser for St Lucie County, Florida and worked with the law firm Weiss, Handler, Angelos and Cornwell as Senior Advisor for Governmental Affairs and Public Policy following his departure from the Senate. He served as Senate President and a member of the Florida Senate, representing the 28th District from 2000 to 2009. His district included portions of Indian River, Martin, Okeechobee, Palm Beach and St. Lucie Counties. He was previously a member of the Florida House of Representatives from 1990 through 2000. Senator Pruitt’s legislative accomplishments include; the Bert Harris Property Rights Act, the Florida Administrative Procedures Act, the Lake Okeechobee Protection Plan and the Bright Futures Scholarship Act. Among the myriad of state and local associations that have honored Ken Pruitt are the Florida Chamber, the Florida Association of Counties, BIO Florida, Coastal Conservation Association, the Florida League of Cities,

5 Florida School Board Association, and the Florida Bar. His other leadership roles have included committee chairmanships of the Senate Rules Committee (2004–2006), Senate Appropriations Committee (2002–2004) and House Appropriations Committee (1998–2000). Senator Pruitt led in the Governor’s appointment of the Committee for a Sustainable a three-county regional commission, which the FCRC facilitated, that was designed to increase cooperation and coordination among St. Lucie, Martin, and Indian River counties. Focused on creating incentives for responsible and sustainable growth on the Treasure Coast of Florida, it paved the way for the recruitment or expansion of major research and development entities and innovation businesses in the region and allowed the area to become known as Florida’s “Research Coast,” a designation first given by Senator Pruitt. His political tenure paralleled the expansion of Indian River State College and the transformation of the Treasure Coast from a vacation and retirement backwater to a region increasingly attractive to research and development firms including Scripps Research Institute, Torrey Pines and the Burnham Institute. Following its work on the Sustainable Treasure Coast, Senator Pruitt assisted the FCRC Consensus Center in securing recurring core funding through the SUS Board of Governors in 2007, which was later cut in 2009. Senator Pruitt is licensed to practice real estate and his prior public service includes Vice Chairman of the St. Lucie County Planning & Zoning Board.

Alan D. Reynolds serves as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of WilsonMiller Stantec, a nationally recognized engineering and planning firm serving the Southeastern United States and Caribbean Basin, and served as its President. Mr. Reynolds has recently served as the Principal Planner of Ave Maria New Town and University and the Town of Big Cypress- both planned under rural land stewardship principles, and Babcock Ranch, the largest single conservation acquisition in Florida history. Mr. Reynolds serves as the Member of the Board of Directors for Finemark Holdings Inc. He has served as chairman of the Leadership Florida's Southwest Florida Region and served on Leadership Florida's Statewide Board of Regents and Leadership Institute Advisory Board. He is a long time member of Florida Chamber Board of Governors, has served as a director of the Housing Partnership for Collier County, Inc., and as a member of the Collier County/City of Naples Joint Affordable Housing Commission. He is member of the American Institute of Certified Planners and Urban Land Institute and has served nationally on its Community Development Council and Development Regulations Council. He is a member of Florida Gulf Coast University Advisory Boards for the College of Business and Lucas Institute for Real Estate, and a member of the Ave Maria University Board of Regents. Mr. Reynolds attended Miami University where he received his degree in Environmental Design. He studied abroad at London’s Architectural Association and in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Robert “Bob” Rhodes is of counsel with Foley & Lardner LLP, where he is a member of the Real Estate Practice and recognized as one of Florida’s leading legal professionals in land use and environmental law and real estate development. Mr. Rhodes is the former executive vice president of The St. Joe Company and also served as the company's general counsel. Prior to joining St. Joe, he was senior vice president and general counsel to Arvida Corporation and Disney Development Company, the community development arms of The Walt Disney Company. Mr. Rhodes practiced law with two Florida firms, Messer Rhodes & Vickers and Steel Hector and Davis, concentrating his practice in real estate, administrative, environmental, and land use law. Earlier, he served as the first administrator of Florida’s

6 growth management program and as counsel to the speaker of the Florida House of Representatives. He chaired and served on state commissions that developed revisions to Florida’s growth management (ELMS Committee) and administrative procedures programs. Mr. Rhodes also worked in Washington, D.C. as assistant director of the Council of State Governments and National Governor’s Conference office. Mr. Rhodes currently chairs the Northeast Florida Advisory Council for the Trust For Public Land, the Jacksonville Economic Development Commission, the Florida Coastal School of Law Board of Trustees, and the City of Jacksonville Mayor’s Growth Management Task Force. Mr. Rhodes is a past chair of both the Environmental & Land Use Law and Administrative Law sections of the Florida Bar and served on the American Bar Association’s Standing Committee on Environmental Law. He is a member of the American College of Real Estate Lawyers, a fellow of the American Bar Association Foundation and a member of the Florida Homebuilder Association’s Housing Hall of Fame. Mr. Rhodes has co-authored a book, “Development Exactions,” and several articles on such topics as development, land use, and environmental and constitutional law. Mr. Rhodes holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of California (1964, with honors). He earned his J.D. in 1968 from Berkeley’s Boalt Hall School of Law and a master’s in public administration from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University in 1973. Since 1994, Mr. Rhodes has served on the Florida Conflict Resolution Consortium’s Advisory Council and helped develop its strategic planning framework as a foundation for the creation of the Center’s new Leadership Council.

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