F.A.W.L. JOURNAL A Publication of the Florida Association for Women Lawyers

SPRING 2006

FAWL joined other women’s organizations at an ERA press conference and rally outside the Senate Chambers. FAWL President June C. McKinney Bartelle, pictured here, spoke in favor of ratifi cation of the Equal Rights amendment, as did Senate sponsor Gwen Margolis and House co-sponsors Arthenia Joyner and Curtis Richardson. SEE PAGE 10 FAWL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE CHAPTER PRESIDENTS £June C. McKinney Bartelle ...... 850/414-3771 £BARRY WOMEN LAWYERS £MIAMI-DADE FAWL President ...... [email protected] ASSOCIATION Sandra Hernandez ...... 305/633-1581 Christina Johnson...... 407/719-5501 [email protected] £Wendy Loquasto...... 850/425-1333 [email protected] President-elect wendyloquasto@fl appeal.com £NORTHWEST FLORIDA £BROWARD COUNTY WOMEN CHAPTER FAWL £Mary K. Wimsett ...... 352/374-3656 LAWYERS ASSOCIATION Abigail Sanders ...... 850/429-7408 Secretary Maryk.Wimsett@gal.fl .gov Jennifer A. Anzalone ...... 954/761-8600 [email protected] [email protected] £Amy Furness ...... 305/530-0050 £NOVA LAW CENTER CHAPTER Treasurer afurness@carltonfi elds.com £CENTRAL FLORIDA ASSOCIATION Sarah Dubman...... 954/554-5631 FOR WOMEN LAWYERS [email protected] £Carolyn C. Coukos...... 239/444-5300 Mary Musette Stewart...... 407/422-6105 Treasurer-elect [email protected] [email protected] £PALM BEACH COUNTY ASSOCIATION £Sherri L. Johnson ...... 941/952-1070 £CLARA GEHAN ASSOCIATION FOR WOMEN LAWYERS Communications Editor [email protected] FOR WOMEN LAWYERS Victoria A. Vilchez ...... 561/471-0001 Lucy Goddard-Teel...... 352/955-5022 V2fl [email protected] £Mary C. Gomez...... 305/818-7030 [email protected].fl .us Membership [email protected] £PINELLAS COUNTY £COLLIER COUNTY WOMENS’ ASSOCIATION £Rebecca Harrison Steele ...... 813/254-0925 BAR ASSOCIATION FOR WOMEN LAWYERS Public Relations rsteele@aclufl .org Jacqueline Buyze...... 239/514-1000 Donna Rose ...... 727/586-1554 [email protected] fl [email protected] £Patricia H. Stephens ...... 850/894-0055 Executive Director [email protected] £HILLSBOROUGH ASSOCIATION £SARASOTA FAWL FOR WOMEN LAWYERS Marjorie A. Schmoyer ...... 941/954-0064 Sarah H. Dennis ...... 813/209-5058 [email protected] FAWL COMMITTEES [email protected] £SOUTH PALM BEACH £JACKSONVILLE WOMEN £AMICUS COUNTY CHAPTER LAWYERS ASSOCIATION Siobhan Shea ...... 561/655-4114 Lisa M. Peraza ...... 561/603-0120 Deborah Greene ...... 904/359-5505 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] £ £AWARDS ST. THOMAS UNIVERSITY £LEE COUNTY ASSOCIATION Barbara Twine-Th omas...... 813/221-4454 LAW SCHOOL CHAPTER FOR WOMEN LAWYERS [email protected] Yesenia Arocha Josephine Gagliardi ...... 239/481-4435 [email protected] £ [email protected] BREAKFAST & BOOKS £ Jacqueline Buyze...... 239/514-1000 FAWL AT STETSON £MANATEE COUNTY FAWL [email protected] Kate Egelston Ginger Perusek ...... 941/745-1500 [email protected] £ [email protected] BYLAWS £ Patricia L. Morgan ...... 352/754-4166 TALLAHASSEE WOMEN LAWYERS £MARION COUNTY FAWL [email protected] Mary Ellen Clark...... 850/414-3764 Janet L. Fuller...... 352/351-2222 [email protected] £ [email protected] EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES SECTION LIAISON £ Tammy Fields...... 561/355-4398 VOLUSIA/FLAGLER £MIAMI LAW SCHOOL, tfi [email protected].fl .us Monica Hirsch Wilson...... 386/615-6815 WOMEN IN LAW monicahw@cfl .rr.com £HISTORIAN Shaena Rowland ...... 732/841-7434 Dinita L. James ...... 813/261-7858 [email protected] [email protected]

£JUDICIAL MONITORING Evelyn L. Moya...... 941/321-2990 FLORIDA ASSOCIATION FOR WOMEN LAWYERS [email protected] P.O. BOX 15998 • TALLAHASSEE, FL 32317-5998 • 850/894-0055

£LEGISLATIVE VISIT US ON THE WEB AT Kendra Davis ...... 850/414-5265 [email protected] www.fawl.org £NOMINATING FOR MEMBERSHIP APPLICATION Deborah Magid ...... 305/770-4892 AND ADVERTISING INFORMATION. [email protected]

£SCHNEIDER AND DAVIS FUNDS ARTICLE SUBMISSION: Paola Parra ...... 904/398-9002 We encourage authors to submit articles through FAWL’s Journal editor, [email protected] Sherri Johnson, at [email protected], £VIRGIL HAWKINS LIAISON or contact the Association’s offi ce as referenced above. Rachelle R. Munson ...... 407/623-1051 fi [email protected]

2 Spring 2006 • FAWL JOURNAL

PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE Balancing the Scales

t has been a they were taught strategies to strengthen Governors’ process provides FAWL Ibanner year, fi lled and promote their career goals. Timely an opportunity to raise the awareness by with excitement, and practical information was given of the Bar regarding women’s issues June C. challenges, and regarding development of skills needed and to work with the Bar for the McKinney successes. Across for women lawyers to take charge benefi t of our membership. Bartelle the state, FAWL’s of their careers and lead successful Th roughout the year, FAWL Board and members professional lives while simultaneously chapters monitored the Judicial have worked tirelessly and unselfi shly balancing their personal lives. Nominating Commissions interviews to carry out the focus of the under the leadership of Evelyn 2005 - 2006 theme, “Balancing Moya, our Judicial Monitoring the Scales.” My sincerest Chair. She met with JNC appreciation to everyone chairs and notifi ed chapters who worked to make this a of interviews in their circuits successful year. I am honored to monitor. We wrote letters to have served as FAWL’s on behalf of our members to 54th President. It has aff orded support their applications for me immense personal appointments, and we made satisfaction to represent telephone calls on behalf of you in so many arenas. our member-candidates. We In January, FAWL put saw our members appointed to out a call to its membership the positions that they sought. to provide examples of FAWL partnered with the National Association of Women We are also pleased that there biases or discriminations Lawyers to present “Eff ective Techniques to Advance Women are more women on the bench currently faced by women Lawyers to the Top” held in Washington, D.C. Pictured from today than there were a year attorneys. Many members left: FAWL President June McKinney Bartelle; President of ago, but we recognize that these responded by asking how the the National Conference of Women’s Bar Associations, Carole numbers still do not refl ect our Aciman from Hughes, Hubbard & Reed LLP and President of information would be used percentage of Bar membership. the National Association of Women Lawyers Lorraine Koc, and by requesting that their General Counsel to Debshops, Inc. in Philadelphia. Hopefully, SB 766/HB 113 will names not be used in any way. pass to fund and increase the Th ese questions and requests number of judges in the state demonstrate that problems still exist Our “Balancing the Scales” initiative so there will be other opportunities today. Th is knowledge provided me the made us take a good look at Th e Florida to increase the number of women momentum to testify before the Florida Bar. We asked ourselves, “Does the on the bench in the state. Supreme Court Standing Committee role of our ex-offi cio seat on the Board FAWL has been blessed this on Fairness and Diversity on your of Governors serve any purpose?” We year to have Lobbyist Yolanda Cash behalf. I told our story about the plight decided that it certainly does. It keeps Jackson advocate on its behalf. She of women and their treatment as our members informed about issues that has done a masterly job of raising our attorneys in the courtroom by judges, may impact them. In addition, it provides political awareness. She often says, opposing counsels, bailiff s, and often FAWL an opportunity to inform Bar “Th ere are no professional groups on by the clients they seek to help. leadership about the dynamic, capable, the hill taking care of women’s issues.” FAWL’s midyear meeting held in credentialed members who stand ready Lobbyist Cash Jackson planned and Miami, provided FAWL members an to serve the Bar in various capacities. implemented a legislative strategy opportunity to immerse themselves in Ex-offi cio membership provides an for FAWL that has made us a more topics and activities to enhance their opportunity to advocate for committee eff ective entity. Th e key strategy leadership capabilities. Participants and other appointments for our members. was to create access. She initiated were empowered and enlightened as Even limited participation in the Board of £ PRESIDENT, Continued on Page 11

“We are pleased that there are more women on the bench today than there were a year ago, but we recognize that these numbers still do not refl ect our percentage of Bar membership.”

FAWL JOURNAL • Spring 2006 3 JOINT AWARDS LUNCHEON KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Judge Gill Freeman to Speak on Fairness in the Courts

by Janeia Daniels, Esq. practices for diversity recruitment and retention utilized by state and national FAWL ANNUAL organizations, and other research MEETING he Honorable Gill Freeman of materials relevant to the ongoing Boca Raton Resort and Club Tthe United States Eleventh Circuit development of diversity perspectives. in conjunction with Court of Appeals will deliver the keynote In addition, the Committee recently The Florida Bar address, “Fairness in the Courts.” released a report of recommendations Annual Convention No stranger to the judiciary’s eff orts “Promoting and Ensuring the Diversity June 22-23, 2006 to promote fairness and equality, of Judicial Staff Attorneys Judge Freeman has served in and Law Clerks within the Thursday, June 22 various lead roles on past fairness Florida State Courts System.” 3:30 to 6:00 p.m. commissions, the Gender Bias Th e Committee also hosted FAWL BOARD OF DIRECTORS Commission, and the Racial and a two-day town hall meeting MEETING Ethnic Bias Commission 10 Year at the Florida Bar’s Midyear Retrospective, and also teaches Meeting in Miami, and is Friday, June 23 a fairness course at the New currently gathering information 8:00 to 9:30 a.m. Judges’ College. She also served regarding the perception FAWL 55TH ANNIVERSARY as president of FAWL from 1984-1985. of fairness in the court system from BREAKFAST In 2004, Judge Freeman was judges, court staff , lawyers, jurors With Remarks appointed chair of the Supreme Court and citizens throughout the state. honoring FAWL Past Standing Committee on Fairness Judge Freeman will discuss the Presidents and the and Diversity, which was established fi ndings from the Committee’s Installation of the to advance the court’s eff orts to research endeavors and provide an 2006-2007 FAWL eradicate inappropriate bias from court overview of the implementation plans Offi cers conducted operations. Since its inception, the and recommendations to address the by the Honorable Patricia Seitz. Standing Committee has established a pervading fairness issues in the court Diversity Information Resource Center system. “We are dedicated to making Friday, June 23 that provides links to diversity and our court system accessible to everybody 12:30 to 2:00 p.m. fairness court education curricula, best and fair to everybody,” says Freeman. e JOINT AWARDS LUNCHEON Sponsored by the Florida Association for Women Lawyers; TICKET INFORMATION: Registration to attend the luncheon is through Th e Florida Bar. Th e Equal Opportunities Law Tickets are $35 and should be ordered through Th e Florida Bar’s Annual Meeting brochure Section of Th e Florida Bar and the in the May Bar Journal or visit www.fl oridabar.org to order tickets online. Th is event has a Virgil Hawkins Florida Chapter history of selling out. Tickets should be purchased in advance and will not be sold at the door. National Bar Association.

Honoring Supreme Court Justice Peggy Quince, Recipient of Th ank you to our Annual Meeting sponsor: the 2006 Rosemary Barkett Outstanding Achievement Award. Florida Association for Women Lawyers Annual Meeting

4 Spring 2006 • FAWL JOURNAL FAWL ANNUAL RETREAT SATURDAY AND SUNDAY, JULY 22-23, 2006 Marriott Harbor Beach Resort & Spa – Fort Lauderdale

ark this weekend to attend Attendees should plan to book a room of the city at its doorstep. To secure MFAWL’s Annual Retreat and Th e for Saturday in order to take advantage the discounted room rate of $159, Florida Bar’s Voluntary Bar Leaders of the hotel property, attend the evening reservations should be made by calling Conference. FAWL is once again social function, and attend the Board of 888/236-2427 or 954/525-4000, prior to combining its Annual Retreat with the Directors meeting on Sunday morning. June 23, 2006. Request your reservation Voluntary Bar Leaders’ Conference Plan now to send several members under the group name “Florida in order to take full advantage of of your Chapter. Meet other FAWL Association for Women Lawyers.” opportunities off ered to the leadership leaders as we plan for the coming of Florida’s bar associations. year and share valuable information CHAPTERS TO RECEIVE Take advantage of this once- to assist local Chapters. Registration OUTSTANDING MEMBERSHIP a- year opportunity to combine the is through the state FAWL offi ce. Call RECRUITMENT AWARDS educational program off ered to all 850/894.0055 or email: [email protected]. FAWL’s Treasurer, Amy Furness, voluntary bar leaders in Florida with Additional information is posted on and Membership Chair, Mary Gomez, a chance to network fi rst hand with the FAWL website at www.fawl.org. are pleased to announce that the other FAWL chapters around the state. following Chapters have experienced 10% or more increase in membership VOLUNTARY BAR LEADERS’ this year, and are eligible to receive CONFERENCE recognition and awards, including one Registration to attend this event paid registration at the Marriott Harbor is $100 through Th e Florida Bar and Beach on Saturday, July 22, 2006: scholarships are available on a limited £ Central Florida Association for basis. Th e Annual Voluntary Bar Women Lawyers Leaders Conference is scheduled to £ Collier County Women’s Bar begin on Friday, July, 21, 2006 and Association run through Saturday, July 22 around £ Hillsborough Association for noon. All voluntary bar leaders should HOTEL INFORMATION Women Lawyers receive a brochure in the near future, Marriott Harbor Beach Resort & £ Lee County Association for but for additional information on the Spa, tucked away on 16 sun-drenched Women Lawyers conference or scholarship requirments, oceanfront acres, is Fort Lauderdale’s £ Sarasota FAWL contact Toyca Williams, Voluntary preeminent resort. Th e resort off ers an £ South Palm Beach County FAWL Bar Liaison at Th e Florida Bar, at irresistible list of indulgent pastimes, £ FAWL at Stetson twilliams@fl abar.org or 850/561-5764. superior meeting space and outstanding Th e chapter with the highest service. Located just 10 minutes percentage increase in membership will FAWL RETREAT AND BOARD from Fort Lauderdale/Hollywood also receive complimentary lodging for OF DIRECTORS MEETING International Airport, the resort aff ords one member to the FAWL Retreat. Th e FAWL Retreat is scheduled to guests the seclusion of a tropical resort, Interested in learning how begin Saturday afternoon, following with all the exciting dining, shopping, they did it? Come to the FAWL the Voluntary Bar Leaders Conference. entertainment and cultural options Retreat and fi nd out! e

FAWL JOURNAL • Spring 2006 5 Nominating Committee Proposes 2006-2007 Slate of Offi cers

n accordance with Article VIII Presidents’ 2004 Outstanding Past Florida Estate Settlement Group. She Iof the Bylaws, the Nominating Voluntary Bar President Award for joined Northern Trust Bank in 1997 after Committee, chaired by Immediate her service. She graduated magna cum she and her husband moved to Southwest Past President Deborah Magid, and laude from Stetson University College Florida from Indianapolis, where she had including committee members Wendy of Law in May 1988 and currently serves practiced for 10 years in the areas of trust Loquasto, Mary K. Wimsett, Jennifer on Stetson’s Board of Overseers. and estate law and employment law. She Coberly, Julie Koves, and Siobhan earned her JD degree cum laude at Indiana Shea, proposes the slate of offi cers set President-Elect University School of Law, where she forth below. Th e offi ces of President SHERRI L. JOHNSON, a was associate editor of the Indiana Law and Treasurer are automatically fi lled past president of the Sarasota Review, and editor-in-chief of the student by the current President-Elect and chapter, currently serves as newspaper, Dictum. She earned her B.A. Treasurer-Elect. Th e remaining slate the FAWL Journal Editor. degree at the University of Kansas. She of nominees shall be approved at the She has previously served as FAWL’s has served on the board of FAWL’s Collier Annual Meeting, unless any petitions Membership Director, as chairman County Chapter (Collier County Women’s to challenge a candidate are received. of the judicial selection committee Bar Association) since 1998 and was its and the awards committee, and as a president from 1999 to 2001. She received President member of the bylaws committee and its Woman Lawyer of the Year award in WENDY S. LOQUASTO the nominating committee. She is also 2003. She was involved in bar, civic and is a shareholder in Fox & the Treasurer of the Sarasota County Bar political activities in Indiana. Notable Loquasto, P.A., a statewide Association, and Membership Chairman among them, she founded the Women appellate practice law fi rm. of the Judge John M. Scheb American Lawyers Division of the Indianapolis She manages the Tallahassee offi ce and Inn of Court. Th e Sarasota Chapter of Bar Association and served as its fi rst has a varied practice, including civil, FAWL recently awarded her its 2005 president in 1987 and on its Executive criminal, workers’ compensation, and Outstanding Attorney Achievement Council until 1993. She co-chaired the family law appeals; extraordinary writs; Award. She graduated with honors from Indiana State Bar Association’s Committee and postconviction motions. Before the University of Florida College of Law to study the adoption of community entering private practice, she clerked in 1997, where she was a member of property law in Indiana and led a state- for Judge Richard W. Ervin, III, at the Florida Blue Key and an editor of the wide citizens coalition in support of the First District Court of Appeal for 15 Journal of Law & Public Policy. She is a proposed legislation. In 1986 she was one years. She is on the Executive Council partner in the law fi rm of Dent & Johnson, of three fi nalists nominated by the Indiana of Th e Florida Bar Appellate Practice Chartered, where she concentrates Judicial Nominating Commission to be Section and Th e Florida Bar Journal and her practice in ad valorem tax law judge of the Indiana Tax Court. She serves News Editorial Board. She has served on representing county property appraisers, on the board of Planned Parenthood of the FAWL Board almost continuously as well as appellate law, business and real Collier County. She is treasurer of the since 1995 as Public Relations Offi cer, estate law. She has published an article Democratic Club of Bonita Springs. Secretary, Historian, Assistant Historian, on ad valorem tax law in the Stetson Chapter Representative, and Chair Law Review, and is a regular presenter Treasurer-Elect of the Membership, Website, Bylaws, at property appraisers’ conferences. She DAWN MARIE BATES and Nominating Committees. She was named the 2005 Young Lawyer of the BUCHANAN, is the was instrumental in organizing the Year by the Gulf Coast Business Review. Managing Attorney at First 150 Women Lawyers Celebration Gulfcoast Legal Services, and compiled and edited Celebrating Treasurer Inc. (“GLS”), in Bradenton, as of February, Florida’s First 150 Women Lawyers. CAROLYN COUKOS is a 2006. She has been doing poverty family Loquasto also assisted Judge Mattie shareholder of Fowler White law since her graduation from Stetson Belle Davis in compiling and editing Boggs Banker, a statewide University College of Law in 1998, fi rst History of Florida Association for Women law fi rm based in Tampa with in Daytona Beach, for Community Legal Lawyers (1951-2002). She is a FAWL offi ces in nine Florida cities, including Services of Mid-Florida (formerly known Golden Star Award recipient. Loquasto Bonita Springs where she practices trust as Central Florida Legal Services), and is a former president of Tallahassee and estate law. Before joining Fowler now for GLS. She was President of the Women Lawyers (1996-97) and received White, she was Vice President of Northern Stetson chapter of FAWL, continued the Florida Council of Bar Association Trust Bank and Manager of its Southwest that tradition by holding the positions

6 Spring 2006 • FAWL JOURNAL of Treasurer and Vice-President at the on various FAWL committees over the the area of banking law with Lewis R. Volusia/Flagler FAWL chapter in Daytona years. She has been a judicial attorney Cohen, P.A., which is considered the legal Beach, and has been involved in many with Judge James Wolf at the Florida First department for Mellon United National community events to support women. District Court of Appeal for 16 years, and Bank. Since 2004, she has served on the She has also been a representative of she has also taught as an adjunct professor Florida Bar Grievance Committee (11P). the Volusia/Flagler FAWL chapter in at Tallahassee Community College and Additionally, she is a member of the Board attendance at many of the State meetings. Barry University in Tallahassee for 14 of Gwen S. Cherry Black Women Lawyers years, teaching several legal studies Association. Further, she sits on the Board Secretary courses, legal research and writing, and of Th e Portrait of Empowerment, a non- REBECCA HARRISON proofreading and grammar. For the past profi t community-based organization STEELE is the Director of three years, She has retreated a bit from dedicated to enabling individuals and the ACLU of Florida’s West teaching and FAWL activities, to care families to become self-suffi cient. She Central Florida regional offi ce. for her father during the last years of his received her J.D. and her B.S. degree in She came to the ACLU from private law struggle with Alzheimer’s disease, and Finance from the University of Florida. practice with her own law fi rm, which is writing a book about her caregiving she formed after working as an attorney experience. She received her J.D. with Immediate Past President with the Trenam, Kemker and Holland & honors from FSU College of Law in 1989. JUNE C. McKINNEY Knight law fi rms. She is an AV-rated lawyer She has a B.S. degree from Western BARTELLE is a past and an experienced appellate attorney Illinois University in Child Development President of Tallahassee who clerked for the Honorable Charles and, prior to law school, she spent several Women Lawyers. She serves R. Wilson for the United States Court years in child day care administration. on the Commission on Professionalism, of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. She Membership Outreach Committee, received her law degree, magna cum laude, Membership Director Education Law Committee and is a from the Stetson University College of Law, MARY MUSETTE Mediation Qualifi cations Board Member. where she was an articles and symposium STEWART is a Florida She is a member of the Tallahassee editor for the Stetson Law Review. She has native and was recently Barristers Association, William H. served as an adjunct professor at Stetson employed as sole in-house Staff ord American Inn of Court, the University College of Law, and writes and counsel at Dr. Phillips, Inc., a non-profi t Florida Government Bar Association, speaks frequently on civil rights issues. corporation, where her primary area of the Tallahassee Bar Association, Virgil Before becoming a lawyer, she was a stage practice is real estate. She received her Hawkins Chapter of the National Bar director and an adjunct professor of theater B.A. in 1994 from Loyola University Association, National Bar Association at the University of South Florida and the New Orleans, and her J.D. in 1997 from and National Association of Women University of Tampa. She is a past president Oklahoma City University School of Lawyers. A former chair of the Capital of the Board of Directors for the community Law. She is the President of the Central City Bar Presidents Council, she is a radio station WMNF-FM, and is also a past Florida Association for Women Lawyers 2002 recipient of the Florida Association president of the Hillsborough Association and has been on the CFAWL Board for of Black Public Administrators Legal for Women Lawyers. She serves on the four years. She is also a Member-at- Community Service Award. She is a board of FAWL and the Trial Lawyers Large on the Board of Directors for the Senior Assistant Attorney General Section of the Hillsborough County Bar Orange County Bar Association/Young in Tallahassee and provides General Association. Other past bar involvement: Lawyers Section. In addition to her Counsel services to the Commission for Co-Chair of the Employee Benefi ts longstanding involvement in charitable Independent Education. Formerly she Committee of Th e Florida Bar Section of activities associated with the legal was Chief Attorney for the Offi ce of the Labor and Employment Law; Co-Chair community, she is also heavily involved General Counsel, Division of Alcoholic of the Ethics Subcommittee of the ABA with Greyhound Ranch Adoptions, Inc., Beverages and Tobacco, and has served Section of Labor and Employment Law which is a Central Florida Greyhound the Florida Public Service Commission Employee Benefi ts Committee (including rescue organization. She is married to Offi ce of the General Counsel, Bureau of serving as a contributing author for John Dambrauskas, a senior investment Telecommunications, the Public Defenders the BNA treatise, Employee Benefi ts). analyst at SDR Investments. Th ey live Offi ce as Misdemeanor Division Chief, and Upcoming honors are listings in the in Longwood, Florida and have two the Department of Labor and Employment 2006 Florida Trend “Legal Elite” as well cats named Brittany and Brianna, Security Division of Unemployment as the 2006 Florida Super Lawyers. and a Greyhound named Tally. Compensation, Bureau of Appeals. She earned her J.D. at the University of Florida Journal Editor Public Relations Director College of Law, where she was President C.J. WEINMAN, has been CARLA A. JONES is a of the Black Law Students Association, a a member of FAWL and partner at Th e Walton Virgil Hawkins Scholar and an Earl Warren active in her local chapter, Law Firm in Miami. Her Legal Training Scholar, and worked as Tallahassee Women Lawyers, practice includes real estate an Associate Editor for Development, since 1990, serving as president of litigation and transactions. Before joining Journal of Law and Public Policy. She is an TWL from 1995-1996. She has served Th e Walton Law Firm, she practiced in active alumna of Howard University. e

FAWL JOURNAL • Spring 2006 7 FAWL LOBBY DAYS A Whirlwind of Legislative Activities! or two days in March, FAWL members Florida Bar President Ffrom throughout the State gathered Alan Bookman briefed in Tallahassee. We walked the halls of the FAWL members on Th e Florida Bar’s legislative Capitol, rubbed shoulders with legislators, agenda, which includes lobbyists, and public offi cials, were trained legislation to limit in grassroots lobbying techniques at a free constitutional amendments CLE, and had the opportunity to network and to oppose regulation with other women’s groups, including the of paralegals by entities other than Th e Florida Bar. Gwen S. Cherry Black Women Lawyers Pictured here are FAWL Association, Florida Commission on Legislative Chair Kendra the Status of Women, Florida Women’s Davis, Alan Bookman, Consortium, Women’s Law Symposium and FAWL President June of Florida State University Law School, McKinney Bartelle. and the Tallahassee Women Lawyers. Before the Board meeting, FAWL members were treated to a lovely lunch at the Governor’s Club. Th e Board then considered the bills presented by the legislative committee, and adopted this year’s legislative agenda. FAWL will take the following positions: £ Support SCR 204/HCR 8005, Equal RIghts for men and women; £ Support SB 766/HB 113, which will increase the number of circuit and county court judges; £ Support SB 1178/HB 59, the Mary B. FAWL presented a panel discussion on citizen initiatives to amend the state Hooks Act for breast cancer; constitution. Th e panel, which included Damian Filer, moderator Chasity O’Steen, £ Support SB 498, 1800 & 488/HB 761, Susan L. Kelsey, and Stephen H. Grimes, explained the process and discussed relating to domestic violence; eff orts to restrict citizen’s initiatives, and alternatives to the current proposals. £ Support SB 972/HB 241, relating to Florida KidCare; £ Support SB 1188, which will better allow WE GRATEFULLY ACKNOWLEDGE THE FOLLOWING SPONSORS: female inmates to parent their children; and £ Becker & Poliakoff, P.A. £ Fowler White Boggs Banker £ Oppose SB 348, relating to termination of alimony in certain circumstances. e £ Carlton Fields, P.A. £ Parks & Crump LLC

Sen. Villalobos honored with Friend of FAWL Award AWL honored Senate Majority Leader J. Alex Villalobos with Fthe prestigious Friend of FAWL Award at a reception hosted by Carlton Fields. FAWL selected Senator Villalobos for this honor because of his commitment to ratifi cation of the Equal Rights Amendment and the independence of the judiciary. Pictured here from left are June McKinney Bartelle, Sen. J. Alex Villalobos, Sen. Nancy Argenziano, Sen. Paula Dockery, and Sen. Evelyn Lynn. e

8 Spring 2006 • FAWL JOURNAL FAWL members were treated to lunch at the Governor’s Club before the Board Meeting. From left: Sherri Johnson, FAWL Journal Editor; Veronica S. Prostko, Hillsborough Association for Supreme Court Justice Peggy Quince joined FAWL members at the Women Lawyers; Yolanda Cash Johnson, FAWL Board Meeting luncheon. From left: Sha’Ron James, TWL Chapter Lobbyist; Mary K. Wimsett, FAWL Secretary; Representative; Linda Wells, TWL Member; Justice Quince; Nikki Denise Chancey, CFAWL; Stenise Rolle, TWL; Mitchell, Gwen S. Cherry Black Women Lawyers Association and Kendra Davis, FAWL Legislative Chair. President; June C. McKinney Bartelle, FAWL President; Carla A. Jones, Miami-Dade FAWL Member.

Look for FAWL Lobbyist Yolanda legislative news Cash Jackson introduces at Representative Loranne Ausley www.fawl.org at the Breakfast and Briefi ng.

Th e Florida Association for Women Lawyers gratefully acknowledges

Yolanda Cash Jackson and Th amar E. Harrigan of Becker & Poliakoff , P.A., for assistance in coordinating the 2006 FAWL Legislative Agenda

FAWL JOURNAL • Spring 2006 9 MIDYEAR MEETING LEADERSHIP FAWL

during one’s service on the Board. Balancing Leadership FAWL attendees had the opportunity to hear the incredible journey of Judith Lichtman, Senior Advisor and Immediate Past President the Scales of the National Partnership for Women and Families in Washington, D.C. In her Keynote Address, Ms. Lichtman by Tracy N. Webster discussed her role in the Family Medical Leave Act and her continuing fi ght for women’s equality, including pay f you missed “Leadership FAWL: equity, balancing work and family, and IBalancing the Scales,”you missed quite access to quality health care. Although an event! Th e day-long event, held on much has been accomplished, Ms. January 20, was co-sponsored by the Lichtman reminded us that the fi ght Miami-Dade Chapter of FAWL. Opening for equality must push forward, as the day was a dynamic presentation there is so much work left to do. by Mikki Canton, managing partner In addition to hearing their experiences Th e day ended with the FAWL Board at Gunster Yoakley & Stewart, PA fi rst-hand, attendees learned about the Meeting where Yolanda Cash Jackson, in Miami, who discussed leadership panelists through the eyes of their panel partner at Becker & Poliakoff , PA, made from a woman’s perspective and how partners, who had the opportunity to an enthusiastic presentation before the positive leadership traits are moving explore their lives prior to the discussion, Board about her role as FAWL’s lobbyist from the more masculine characteristics as well as through a slide presentation and about the lobbying process. Ms. Cash to, perhaps the center, with women highlighting their achievements. Jackson was also instrumental during emerging as having favorable leadership Th e second panel, moderated by FAWL’s Lobby Days on March 13-14. qualities not typically embraced in the Edith Osman, past president of Th e During the program, FAWL bags past. Not only did Ms. Canton give Florida Bar and Statewide and Miami- were given away in a raffl e that included a dynamic presentation, but she also Dade FAWL, provided insight on the copies of Success Management: How provided attendees with copies of the journey to bar leadership. Th e featured to Get to the Top and Keep Your Sanity book Women Who Run with the Wolves panelists were Jennifer Coberly, partner, Once You Get Th ere, by E. Carol by Clarissa Pinkola Estes, Ph.D., to Zuckerman Spaeder, LLP; Lisa Small, Webster, Ph.D. Th is, in addition to the take with them to read and reference Small & Small, PA; Sharon Langer, Dade books provided by Mikki Canton and throughout their individual life journeys. County Legal Aid Society; and Judge Gunster Yoakley, allowed Leadership Finally, to assist with cutting down on Phyllis Kotey. Th e importance of activity FAWL attendees to walk away not only stress in the offi ce, Ms. Canton provided in local and specialty bar associations, with strategies and tips for success in an eff ective method for “swatting” away and the benefi ts and rewards of leadership roles, but also with reference the negative energy that sometimes involvement in Florida Bar sections and tools and methods for minimizing fi nds its way into our lives, as well as an committees were highlighted by the stress. Th e informative day long seminar affi rmation to recite while de-stressing. panel. Th e panelists also provided insight taught our future leaders to focus on Th e fi rst panel discussion was of into the road to the Board of Governors leadership, never fear going for the gold, defi ning one’s role as a leader where and the opportunities presented and not to sweat the small stuff . e the panelists led us briefl y through the paths taken to their current positions. Th e discussion, led by Amy Furness, WE GRATEFULLY ACKNOWLEDGE THE PROGRAM SPONSORS: featured Judith Lichtman of the National £CMS Products Partnership for Women and Families; Specializing in data backup solutions • www.cmsproducts.com state legislator Yolly Roberson; Tiff ani £ G. Lee, partner, Holland & Knight Auslin Legal Staffi ng Inc. South Florida’s full-service legal staffi ng specialist • www.auslinlegalstaffi ng.com and President of the Dade County Bar Association-Young Lawyers Division; and £Mellon United National Bank Carol Licko, partner, Hogan & Hartson. World class services in South Florida • www.mellon.com

10 Spring 2006 • FAWL JOURNAL From left: FAWL President June C. McKinney “Defi ning Your Role as a Leader” Panel from left: Judith Lichtman; Bartelle; “Authentic Leadership” speaker Tiff ani G. Lee; moderator Amy Furness; June C. McKinney Bartelle; and Mikki Canton; panel moderator Amy Furness; Representative Yolly Roberson. Not pictured: Carol Licko. and Miami-Dade FAWL President Sandra Hernandez.

“Stepping Stones to Bar Leadership” Panel from left: Judge Phyllis Diane Kotey; Wendy Loquasto; June C. McKinney Bartelle; Sharon Langer; From left: June C. McKinney Bartelle; Judith Lisa S. Small; moderator Edith G. Osman; and Jennifer Rae Coberly. Lichtman; and program chair Wendy Loquasto.

£ PRESIDENT, From Page 3 Committee, under the leadership of where women bar associations write Chair Kendra Davis, has fi ne-tuned legislation and participate in legislative the process by setting up appointments our legislative process. We have kept activities year round. Th ere are states for me to meet with female attorney abreast of issues and have visited and that have a fi ne-tuned political system legislators and the other women in the called our legislators about some of the dedicated to getting women on the legislature prior to session. Upon meeting issues of interest to FAWL members. bench. Th ere are states that have a Women Caucus Chair, Representative In early March, FAWL partnered signifi cant percentage of women on Eleanor Soble, I was invited to a Women with the National Association of Women their Board of Governors. Th erefore, Caucus meeting. On your behalf, I spoke Lawyers and the National Conference I recognize that there is still much at the Women Caucus meeting, at an of Women’s Bar Associations for a work to do in Florida before we can ERA Press Conference, and testifi ed seminar presented in Washington, D.C. say that the scales have been balanced. at a Committee meeting for SB 1800, I attended the program and met with I challenge you to continue to build a bill concerning domestic violence. state association presidents nationwide. on FAWL’s successes so that one day Additionally, we submitted a letter of I learned that FAWL’s “Balancing the we can all say that the scales are truly support that is being distributed with Scales” is a work in progress, far from in balance. It’s a journey that we can all ERA press kits. Th e Legislative complete. Th ere are currently states continue together, one step at a time. e

FAWL JOURNAL • Spring 2006 11 FAWL CHRONICLES Success as leaders by empowering others

ast year, soon transformational, transactional, and to stop her that year. She had to drop out Lafter the start of laissez-faire. Women are overwhelmingly after her fi rst year and work as a teacher the fall TV season, likely to adopt a transformational style, to earn the money to complete her law Newsweek devoted defi ned as serving as role models, degree, earning her LL.B. from Stetson an issue to “When mentoring and empowering workers, and College of Law in 1926. She practiced with Women Lead,” encouraging innovation. Men, by contrast, her husband, John Leonardy, for 15 years, by beginning the cover are more likely to be transactional leaders, but when the marriage ended, so did the Dinita L. story with this defi ned as appealing to subordinates’ self- Sanford, Fla., fi rm of Leonardy & Leonardy. James plaintive paragraph: interest by using reward and punishment Dr. Leonardy moved to Miami in 1939 FAWL Historian Th is should be a as incentives. Th e laissez-faire style, which as a single mother of one son. She worked season of celebration. also was associated more often with men, for a year as a librarian at the University America has its fi rst is characterized by an overall failure of Miami School of Law and taught female in the Oval to take responsibility for managing. Parliamentary Law in its evening division. Offi ce. Everywhere you look, there are Th ere is a fi erce academic debate Th ereafter, her day job was as a teacher women surgeons, police offi cials, hard- over the cause of the gender diff erences, in junior and senior high school, and charging executives and even amazingly but the Northwestern researchers serving as president of the Dade County resourceful undercover operatives. So identify a defi nite consensus that the Teachers’ Association. During her tenure, why aren’t women across the country transformational style adopted most the teachers sued the school board over cheering? Well, perhaps because often by women generally creates a a salary dispute and won, and the school those role models — important as they stronger organization by inspiring board then pressured the principal to fi re are — are all fi ctional. Th ey’re stars of commitment and creativity. Th e her. Th e principal would not, because she popular TV shows like “Commander in transformational leader is more an was too valuable a member of the faculty. Chief,” “Grey’s Anatomy” and “Alias.” excellent teacher than a traditional boss. She began studying parliamentary law When will the real world catch up? FAWL Chronicles salutes fi ve of during law school and became a national Florida women lawyers are Florida’s earliest women lawyers, women expert, writing two books on the subject, fortunate that we can celebrate role who led the way for us by transforming presiding over the national organization and models from a source other than the practice of law in our State and founding one in Florida. She trained nearly television. Our rich history teems serving as mentors and role models to every registered parliamentarian in Florida, with real world women who led their all who have followed them to the Bar. and served as parliamentarian for 15 national communities with superior intellect, Th e full biographies, with appropriate organizations, including the Daughters of the strength, compassion and integrity. bibliographic references, for each of American Revolution. She also was president Not surprisingly, these pioneer women these inspiring women can be found in of the Florida League of Women Voters. lawyers exhibited the natural qualities Th e First 150 Women Lawyers, published Parliamentary law “is the most and leadership style that social scientists by FAWL in 2000 in celebration of useful thing,” Dr. Leonardy is quoted as today are fi nding most conducive Th e Florida Bar’s 50th anniversary. saying. “If the presiding offi cer follows to organizational eff ectiveness. correct procedure, the meeting will A team of psychology professors be eminently fair and impartial.” based primarily at Northwestern HERBERTA ANN Dr. Leonardy was also a student of the University analyzed the available HATHCOCK world and visited nearly every country. research, using a statistical methodology LEONARDY In her mid-50s, she went to Colombia, called meta-analysis, to determine Teacher, South America for six summers to pursue whether the typical leadership styles Parliamentarian, graduate studies. She traveled to China of women and men diff er. Th eir work World Traveler at age 85. When she died in her sleep combined data from 45 published 1893-1981 at age 87, she had among her personal and unpublished studies on leaders Although the eff ects airline tickets for six pending in business, academics and other men in her family were doctors in Plant trips to places around the world. areas. Th e meta-analysis revealed City, Herberta Hathcock was discouraged In an interview a couple of years that whenever women exceeded from pursuing a profession. When her before her death, she refl ected: “I’ve men in a leadership trait, that trait father sent her off to Stetson University had an adventuresome sort of life, and had a positive eff ect on improving in 1916 to pursue graduate study of a pleasant one. On the whole, I can’t performance from subordinates. philosophy, she enrolled in law school complain, and if I had it all to do over, Th e Northwestern researchers instead. Her father did not fi nd out until I believe I’d live it much the same.” identifi ed three leadership styles: he got the tuition bill and it was too late Wouldn’t we all like to earn that epitaph?

12 Spring 2006 • FAWL JOURNAL ETHEL ERNEST after her return home to teach Latin at and Defender Clinic at UF law school. MURRELL Gainesville (Fla.) High School, but by Th e leadership experiences Lobbyist, Activist, law women could not take courses at the throughout her life prepared her for Columnist University of Florida if the same courses her most challenging and interesting 1905-1991 were off ered at Florida State College work, chairing the Gainesville Advisory Born in Wyoming, for Women in Tallahassee. Since 1925, Bi-Racial Committee. Th at committee, Ethel Ernest was the product of an the law had permitted women to enroll appointed by the mayor in 1963, Eastern college education, capped by at the University of Florida College of successfully and voluntarily integrated all studies at the Sorbonne in Paris. She Law, but no woman had exercised that public accommodations in Gainesville, toured Europe and Asia to lecture about right, apparently because they were save one recalcitrant restaurant, before women’s rights before marrying Miami openly discouraged from doing so. the 1964 Civil Rights Act was passed. attorney John Moore Murrell in 1931. She Miss Floyd, with the backing of a law Among the tactics used by the received an LL.B. from the University of professor, spoke to the dean, Harry R. Committee was to invite business Miami School of Law and was admitted Trusler, who reportedly stood up, bowed owners to appear at public Committee to Th e Florida Bar a year later. at the waist, and said, “My dear young meetings. Mrs. Gehan put this header She used her law degree and Florida lady, may I persuade Bar membership as a springboard to you to study law?” promote women’s equality. Ms. Murrell However serious Gehan chaired the Gainesville Advisory led a 10-year campaign that culminated his off er, she took him with the enactment in 1943 of the up on it. Her fi rst day Bi-Racial Committee in 1963, Florida Married Women’s Property Act, of law school was no endowing married women with the less dramatic, as the which “successfully and voluntarily same property rights as their husbands. entire (all male) student integrated all public accommodations She also is credited with promoting body formed two lines legislation that allowed women to serve outside, and Miss Floyd in Gainesville, before the on grand and petit juries in Florida. As had to walk between early as 1946, she was leading an eff ort the rows to enter the 1964 Civil Rights Act was passed.” to amend the Florida Constitution to building. “It wasn’t provide for equal rights for women. bad,” she remembered She also was a journalist, writing a half-century later. “You felt conspicuous; on all Committee agendas: “Keep calm, a daily column, “Law for the Ladies,” you stuck out like a sore thumb. But they keep temper.” She cajoled business which was carried in eight Florida [her fellow students] weren’t rude. Some owners to serve all comers by asking newspapers. She wrote a college text, ignored me as a matter of principle. I still them to be “good sports and cooperate.” Law for the Ladies: Practical Law, and have some fi ne friends from law school.” As she refl ected in her later years: “If also published a volume of poetry. Miss Floyd excelled at her studies, you get people behind you, you can by She died at age 88, having graduating in 1933 with honors and the gentle persuasion accomplish a great devoted her life to equalizing Harrison Award for the highest overall deal and do it with more grace.” the legal status of women. average. Other than a two-year stint Its work done, the Committee following husband Frederick Gehan to disbanded in 1965. Mrs. Gehan continued Utah where he served during World her bar association and community CLARA BACKUS War II, Mrs. Gehan practiced law with service and also started a local “Lady FLOYD GEHAN Gainesville fi rms until 1963, when Lawyers” group in the 1970s that Integrationist, she hung her own shingle, practicing ultimately became the Eighth Circuit’s Pro Bono Pioneer, primarily in probate and real estate, and FAWL chapter, which, not coincidentally, Mentor doing considerable pro bono work. honors Mrs. Gehan by bearing her 1909-1992 She developed her leadership name. Mrs. Gehan personally invited Clara Floyd was skills in local bar activities, fi rst new women lawyers coming to practice born to a doctor chairing the Eighth Judicial Circuit in Gainesville to an informal luncheon, and a nurse in Bar Association and later chairing usually on Fridays, at a popular local Alachua County and its Legal Aid Committee. She was a restaurant. Th e group of eight to 10 earned a college degree from Brenau founder of what is now Th ree Rivers women would linger for up to two hours College in Gainesville, Ga., in 1929. Legal Services, Inc. and also was over lunch, discussing each other’s She wanted to continue her studies instrumental in creation of the Legal Aid practices, recent judicial opinions

FAWL JOURNAL • Spring 2006 13 £ CHRONICLES, From Page 13 and their personal lives. Mrs. Gehan often was heard to say how much she “Women lawyers are in there as ‘natural leaders,’ too. enjoyed the gatherings, but the younger and less experienced lawyers were the All it takes is for them to show that they’re just as interested ones who benefi ted from Mrs. Gehan’s wisdom and experience. She often in the preservation of justice as their male counterparts.” related memories — most amusing or humorous, a few sad — from the early —JEANNETTE O. GIFFORD MULLENS SMITH days of her practice, all conveying her love for her chosen profession.

reform. She introduced the Equal Rights School Dean R.A. Rasco hired her as Amendment to the Florida House in 1972. an assistant professor of law because She was still serving in the House she had impressed him with the work in 1979, when she was killed in an she had done for the Circuit Judges automobile accident. Governor Bob as Dade County law librarian. When Graham delivered her eulogy, calling she started teaching law in 1949, she Gwen Cherry “a champion for the had three children, ages 2, 4 and 6.

State Archives of Florida • Donn Dughi rights of all people and a voice of Th at year was also the high point reason and concern.” She was inducted of the infl ux of returning soldiers who posthumously into the Florida Women’s were going to law school on the GI Bill. Hall of Fame in 1986. Th e Gwen S. Cherry One of her faculty colleagues reported Black Women Lawyers Association in that these students were older, with an Miami also is named in her honor. attitude of seriousness and respect, and that they readily accepted a female law JEANNETTE professor with “a mind as sharp as a GWENDOLYN SAWYER CHERRY O. GIFFORD razor.” Professor Smith was not soft, her Teacher, Legislator, MULLENS SMITH colleague said, but “she was simpatico Crusader Teacher, Scholar, with her students,” and imparted to 1923-1979 Nurturer them a sense of social responsibility. Th e child of the fi rst African- 1910-1981 She was a scholar of contracts and American doctor in Dade County became Th e daughter constitutional law, and the Florida the County’s fi rst African-American of a tropical Constitution in particular, serving on a woman lawyer in 1965. Gwen Sawyer botanist who state constitutional revision commission. was born in Miami but went away to moved to Miami in childhood, Jeannette Along with two other faculty members, attend school in New York, returning Giff ord was trained fi rst as a nurse she developed a program on Law and the to the State to enroll at Florida A&M before enrolling in the University of Poor that won a Ford Foundation grant. University, where she earned a bachelor’s Miami School of Law. After earning In 1969 she became a full professor, the degree in 1946. She went back to New her LL.B. degree in 1937, she opened only female among her 22 colleagues. York, earning a master’s degree in human the Dade County Law Library, where Th at year, she told the Miami relations from NYU. Th e next 20 years she found that many lawyers had Herald how women lawyers struggle to Gwen Cherry spent teaching mathematics rudimentary legal research skills. She balance career and family. She herself at Miami Northwestern Senior High taught legal bibliography to nearly all had raised four children in a two-career School and raising two children. of Miami’s practicing lawyers, at the family; her husband, Th omas F. Smith, She embarked on her legal career same time consulting with them about was Director of the Miami Beach by applying to the University of Miami legal issues arising in their cases. During Publicity and Convention Bureau. School of Law, and she was admitted her four-year stint running the law “Women who want any kind of as the fi rst African-American to attend library, she also did research for the career and also want to be married the school. She transferred to FAMU Circuit Court judges and the Assistant are always going to feel they have a and graduated at the top of her class County Solicitor, who handled appeals. bear by the tail,” she said. “You end in 1965. She started in private practice When her son was born, she went up constantly having guilt feelings.” and then joined the FAMU faculty as its into practice in the Assistant County Yet she encouraged women to join her second African-American law professor. Solicitor’s offi ce. During World War in her chosen profession: “Women lawyers In 1970 she was elected to the II, she drew on her nursing skills and are in there as ‘natural leaders,’ too. All it Florida House of Representatives, where acquired formal teaching experience as takes is for them to show that they’re just she championed the rights of women a volunteer instructor for nurses aides. as interested in the preservation of justice and children and worked for prison When the war was over, Miami Law as their male counterparts.” e 14 Spring 2006 • FAWL JOURNAL Should You Consider Florida Bar Board CERTIFICATION? by Joni Armstrong Coffey experience of attorneys in the areas of we should consider participating, Board Certifi ed City, County and law approved for certifi cation by the as ability and experience permit. Local Government Lawyer Supreme Court of Florida.” Currently Second, certifi cation helps clients there are 20 specialty areas, with others and fellow lawyers set expectations pending Supreme Court approval. for our professional abilities: hen the Supreme Court of Florida About 4000 of Th e Florida Bar’s 76,000+ £ Certifi cation serves both prospective Wapproved the certifi cation program members are board certifi ed. Th ey are clients and counsel seeking to refer in City, County and Local Government the only lawyers allowed to identify legal matters to an expert. Certifi cation Law in 1996, I took the fi rst opportunity themselves as “specialists” or “experts.” can therefore help a lawyer grow her to become board certifi ed in my practice Certifi cation requires (1) at least 5 practice with matters in which she can area. Why did I do years of practice best utilize her expertise. Th e Florida it? By then I had in the specialty; Bar supports this valuable service by been privileged to HOW DO I FIND OUT IF (2) substantial providing a direct URL to its directory of serve 14 years in the CERTIFICATION IS FOR ME? involvement board certifi ed lawyers: www.FloridaBar. Miami-Dade County Interested? You can fi nd out in that fi eld, org/certifi cation. Attorney’s Offi ce, more at www.FloridaBar. often assessed £ Certifi cation provides an objective in public service org/certifi cation. You can as a percentage measure that a corporate executive, hiring with terrifi c lawyers, also nominate one of your role of practice; partner, government offi cial or other an interesting (3) a rigorous leader may justifi ably rely upon when models for the Justice Anstead client, and a deeply examination; selecting a lawyer and explaining the rewarding practice. Award for Board Certifi ed and (4) peer choice to stockholders, clients, citizens or Th e chance to Lawyer of the Year. The award assessment of others to whom the leader is accountable. self-test sparked description and nomination form competence £ Certifi cation enhances the stature my own decision to are available at the same site. and character, of a law fi rm or offi ce, as tangibly seek certifi cation. ethics and demonstrated by lower malpractice Perhaps that factor professionalism insurance rates for certifi ed lawyers. A prompts initial interest for many who in the practice area. Each specialty certifi ed lawyer thus fosters her fi rm’s seek certifi cation. I understand now, has additional tailored standards, well-being and serves as a role model. however, that many other benefi ts fl ow including enhanced CLE and trial £ Certifi cation demonstrates commitment from certifi cation, even for lawyers with or other hands-on experience. for practitioners who vary their practice an established reputation and clientele. styles from the traditional mode. For Why Become Board Certifi ed? example, certifi cation helps validate the What Is a “Florida Bar Board Certifi cation establishes commitment of a lawyer who chooses Certifi ed Lawyer”? an independent measure of to work alternative hours, or from Twenty-fi ve years ago, the Supreme competence, professionalism home, to accommodate health, family Court of Florida expressly recognized and peer acknowledgment, and or other personal demands. Because the need for a program acknowledging thereby serves several purposes. continued certifi cation demands lawyers with special competence, to First, our Supreme Court has called minimum practice requirements and help the public make informed decisions for an objective measure to assist those peer acknowledgment, others can be when selecting lawyers. Th e Florida Bar seeking eff ective legal representation. assured that the certifi ed lawyer remains In re Amendment to Integration Rule, As members of a calling that rewards committed to excellence. 399 So. 2d 1385 (Fla.1981). Th e Florida us with professional independence Finally, certifi cation is not just Bar has since developed and refi ned and societal privilege, we owe it to the a personally satisfying professional a high quality certifi cation program. public to help those with a need for milestone. Rather, it is an impetus Th e Bar describes certifi cation as “the legal representation with lawyers who toward investing energy and thought highest level of recognition by Th e can best meet those needs. Certifi cation necessary for future growth and Florida Bar of the competency and is one important tool to that end, and professional contribution. e FAWL JOURNAL • Spring 2006 15 FAWL Queries GUBERNATORIAL CANDIDATES About Judicial Appointments

EDITOR’S NOTE: In contemplation of the upcoming gubernatorial election, FAWL FAWL:What factors do you believe asked each of the four major gubernatorial candidates — Sen. Rod Smith, Rep. Jim would most infl uence your decisions Davis, Attorney General Charlie Crist, and Chief Financial Offi cer Tom Gallagher — to in appointing judges and members of judicial nominating commissions? answer two questions regarding the governor’s power to appoint judges and Davis: I believe the most important members of judicial nominating commissions. Here are their responses. factor in appointing judges and members of the judicial nominating commissions is appointing someone who has an open ROD SMITH (Dem.) nominees who are thoughtful and mind and will serve the public everyday. FAWL: How much respectful of the judiciary, and I fi ercely Appointing judges is one of a Governor’s consideration do believe in independent judges who most important responsibilities. My you believe the upon elevation to the bench will forget standard will be to appoint judges who Governor should about their partisan background. approach each case with an open mind, give to diversity in Judicial nominating commission weigh the facts and decide each case on appointing judges and members should not be appointed on its merits. A judge should not allow his or members of judicial the basis of partisanship or ideology; her own personal political philosophy to nominating commissions? rather, members should be appointed interfere with an impartial interpretation Smith: My fi rst preference would be based on a proven commitment to of the law. Th is is the key to a strong to return judicial nominating commission serving their community and an and independent judiciary that should selection to the Bar. But under any system, understanding of the judicial process. be the cornerstone of our democracy. diversity should be a very important factor in appointing judges and members b b b b b b of the judicial nominating commissions. Having intimately followed the process JIM DAVIS (Dem.) CHARLIE CRIST (Rep.) as an attorney for 17 years and a State FAWL: How much FAWL: How much Attorney for eight years (during which consideration do consideration do you time I increased the percentage of women you believe the believe the Governor attorneys and managers to record rates Governor should should give to diversity in my circuit), I am very sensitive to give to diversity in in appointing judges the need for a diverse judiciary that appointing judges and and members of truly refl ects the make-up of society, members of judicial judicial nominating commissions? and pledge to reach out to diverse nominating commissions? Crist: Th e Governor has not only the populations to ensure that all people Davis: I believe that diversity plays responsibility, but also the obligation to have an equal opportunity to serve. an important role in appointing judges appoint judges and nominate members of and members of the judicial nominating judicial commissions that refl ect Florida’s FAWL: What factors do you believe commissions. Florida is one of the most diversity. Governor Jeb Bush has done would most infl uence your decisions diverse states in the country, and our outstanding work to ensure that our in appointing judges and members of judges should refl ect that. I believe courts mirror this unique diversity. As judicial nominating commissions? racial and gender diversity is important. Attorney General, I have selected staff Smith: While diversity will be an I believe diversity of professional that is as diverse in race, ethnicity and important consideration, the most experience and personal background is gender as the people of this great state. important factors in appointing judges important. I believe all these qualities will be qualifi cations, competence, help maintain a judiciary that has the FAWL: What factors do you believe and judicial temperament. I want confi dence of the citizens of Florida. would most infl uence your decisions

16 Spring 2006 • FAWL JOURNAL in appointing judges and members of regardless of creed, race, or ethnicity. If applicants: humility and courage. judicial nominating commissions? elected Governor, I will communicate Humility is important because judges Crist: We must demand honesty, to potential applicants that they will must always remember they are not integrity and experience of our judges be judged on their qualifi cations and policymakers, they are impartial and members of judicial commissions. character, not on their religion, their sex, umpires who apply laws enacted by Combined, they must refl ect the or the color of their skin. Moreover, I others. And judges who display humility communities in which they serve. will take steps to ensure that this message are more likely to treat litigants and Individually, they must practice the strong of openness and equal opportunity is attorneys with dignity and respect. work ethic of Floridians across the state. broadly disseminated throughout our Courage is important because judges state’s myriad communities. However, inevitably make unpopular decisions. b b b I believe a Governor never should allow Judicial independence is impossible the desire for diversity to lead to de facto if a judge lacks the courage to make TOM GALLAGHER quotas or artifi cial “goals.” Any quota their decisions regardless of pressure (Rep.) system or proportional representation applied by politicians and pundits. FAWL: How much scheme undermines the ideal of fair, equal Regarding judicial nominating consideration do you treatment for every individual applicant. commissions, I would appoint individuals believe the Governor who are fair and open-minded, who share should give to diversity FAWL: What factors do you believe my judicial philosophy and who have in appointing judges would most infl uence your decisions the professional expertise to evaluate and members of in appointing judges and members of an applicant’s ability and intellect. judicial nominating commissions? judicial nominating commissions? I believe Governor Jeb Bush has Gallagher: I believe a diverse judiciary Gallagher: Aside from demonstrated set a good example in this regard and and diverse nominating commissions legal ability, experience, and respect for his appellate nominees, in particular, should fl ow naturally from a selection the separation of powers, as Governor I refl ect the judicial qualities I would process that is open and fair to all, would look for two qualities in judicial seek to promote as Governor. e

HAWL Kicks into Gear for Self Defense Seminar

n March 17, the Hillsborough Association of Women During her two-hour seminar, Renshi Radke OLawyers kicked and yelled into spring with its emphasized the goal of training. “Self defense is not inaugural Self Defense Seminar, held on the Stetson Law simply learning a few movements,” says Radke, “but School’s Tampa campus and attended by HAWL members developing a lifestyle of awareness and preparedness and employees of a local domestic violence shelter. that leads to greater security and peace of mind.” After Th e Law Offi ces of the initial statistics, she taught the participants exercises Barkan Neff Handelman involving assessing their situations and using awareness Meizlish sponsored the drills to increase their overall perception of diff erent self defense instructor, situations. With hand pands and gloves, participants Renshi Anne Radke, kicked, punched, elbowed, and kneed diff erent targets 4th Degree Black Belt, in order to get comfortable with various techniques. Chief Instructor of At the end of the seminar, participants demonstrated Alpha UPKUDO and techniques learned during the seminar. According to one President of the participant, Kristin Norse, “Renshi Radke stressed that UPKUDO International YOU control the situation. You decide how far it will go.” Karate Federation. Th e seminar was held as part of the Hillsborough Renshi (which is a Association of Women Lawyers Community Outreach title for Master) Radke program which also conducts its “Take Your Child is an internationally to Work” program for members and local middle respected and known instructor and master trainer. She has school students and an annual toy drive to benefi t been inducted into several Martial Arts Halls of Fame and the Kinship Care Foundation. For more information her students have compiled over 800 trophies, 80 divisional about the seminar, contact HAWL member, titles, and one World Grand Fighting Championship title. Anthony Reeves at [email protected]. e

FAWL JOURNAL • Spring 2006 17 CHAPTER NEWS

the poorest schools in Central Florida. Th e Year Award” was presented to guidance counselor at Rock Lake provides Kathleen Passidomo for excelling the Chapter with the names, grades, and in her career, overcoming traditional ages of 50 children at Rock Lake, many stereotypes associated with women, of whom live in shelters, and CFAWL and distinguishing herself as an members contribute holiday presents. outstanding practitioner of law. Rep. David Simmons (R) and Rep. Sheri McInvale (D) provided a b b b summary that included materials on From left: Bankruptcy Judge Raymond the legislative process for the February JACKSONVILLE WOMEN Ray, former bankruptcy judge Arthur membership luncheon at the Citrus LAWYERS ASSOCIATION Spector of Berger Singerman and Club in Downtown Orlando. After launching its events with Th omas Messana of Ruden McClosky an opening reception at Jacksonville’s instructed Broward County Women b b b Lawyers Association luncheon attendees exclusive University Club, the Jacksonville on the eff ects of the recent bankruptcy Women Lawyers Association (JWLA), amendments on non-bankruptcy areas of COLLIER COUNTY WOMEN’S led by President Deborah Greene, began legal practice. BAR ASSOCIATION yet another banner year. Building on Former Attorney General Janet Reno the tradition of its successful monthly BROWARD COUNTY WOMEN was the honored guest and spoke at a luncheon series, recent JWLA gatherings LAWYERS ASSOCIATION January luncheon in Naples sponsored on Jacksonville’s scenic waterfront have Th e Broward County Women Lawyer’s by FAWL’s Collier chapter, the Collier featured keynote addresses by esteemed Association recently celebrated the County Women’s Bar Association. Th e members of the legal community, appointment of two of their former board event was the chapter’s most successful including Judges Wendy Berger, Eleni members — Catalina Avalos and Stacy ever, widely attended by Naples attorneys Derke and Susan Harrell Black, and Ross — to the bench of the 17th Circuit. and judges. Proceeds from the luncheon Florida Coastal School of Law (FCSL) Congratulations Judges Avalos and Ross! benefi ted Collier’s Breakfast and Books Professors Susan Daicoff and Nancy In addition, on February 21, the program, and a number of girls from Hogshead-Makar. Additionally, JWLA’s BCWLA held their Annual Family Law Immokolee PACE Center for Girls holiday festivities included a lively Update. General Magistrate Barbara were able to attend as special guests. party marked by a dazzling fashion Beilly spoke to a packed house of Th e Association also presented two show, during which JWLA members local judges and attorneys on recent prestigious awards at a holiday reception modeled business and evening ensembles changes in family law in Florida. in December. Th e “Distinguished provided by Talbot’s Boutique. On March 15, the BCWLA Executive Award” was presented to JWLA also continued its commitment hosted a monthly luncheon titled: Martha Marland of Northern Trust to community service by collecting school Bankruptcy Reform for Non-Bankruptcy Bank and Trust Company for leading in supplies and toys for the youth of Families Attorneys: Why You Need to Know the workplace with vision, determination First, a Jacksonville aff ordable-housing About the Bankruptcy Reform Act. and compassion, and for promoting and initiative. Th e items — donated by JWLA, Th e Broward chapter hosted a special creating a good working environment for Talbot’s and FCSL’s Women Law Students “luxury” luncheon on Professional women attorneys within her organization. Association — were presented to the Assistant’s Day, April 26, with a panel of Th e “Woman Lawyer of the children at a special get-together. JWLA judicial assistants and other courtroom arranged for surprise Collier County personnel who shared with attorneys guest appearances by luncheon with and their legal assistants the best (and Janet Reno. Jacksonville Jaguars worst) ways to interact with the Court. Front row, from left: football players Th e annual event also honors the “Best in Carol DiMento, to assist with the Broward” and recognizes the tremendous Arlene Austin and distribution, much to value our legal assistants bring to our Kim Spiker. Back the youths’ delight. practices and our lives. row: Margaret McMorrow, JWLA is currently Jeanette planning its much- b b b Lombardi, anticipated Annual Carolyn Coukos, Judicial Reception. CENTRAL FLORIDA ASSOCIATION Jacqueline Buyze, For more chapter FOR WOMEN LAWEYRS (CFAWL) Janet Reno, Mary information, please Beth Clary and CFAWL has continued its’ annual Jeanne Seewald. visit www.jwla.org. Angel Tree Project. Th e program benefi ts Not pictured is students at Rock Lake Elementary, one of Starling Hendriks. b b b 18 Spring 2006 • FAWL JOURNAL would have appropriate attire b b b for job interviews. Th is spring, Sarasota FAWL is co-sponsoring SOUTH PALM BEACH a Prom for Cyesis, and will COUNTY FAWL CHAPTER be raising funds for gift bags, Th e South Palm Beach County FAWL photo gift certifi cates, the DJ, Chapter held its fi rst annual judicial decorations, and food, since, reception on February 16 in Boca Raton Jacksonville Women Lawyers’ fashion show unlike most high schools, at Th e Muvico Palace, Lexis Premier Cyesis has no prom budget. Level. More than 140 judges and lawyers HILLSBOROUGH ASSOCIATION Th is spring, Sarasota FAWL will also from the South County and Palm Beach OF WOMEN LAWYERS be hosting an Annual Membership Drive area attended the event to honor Judge HAWL held a Judicial Reception & Wine Tasting, a luncheon entitled Gary Vonhof. Judge Vonhof is a probate in recognition of the local judiciary “Vital Keys to Peak Performance and judge for the 15th Judicial Circuit, and on January 26 at Th e Tampa Club. Productivity: Work/Life Balance,” and after 19 impressive years on the bench Approximately 30 Judges, including their annual Judicial Reception on May 18. will soon be retiring. South Palm Beach Justice Charles Wilson of the Eleventh FAWL honored Judge Vonhof for his Circuit Court of Appeals, Chief Judge b b b contributions to the bar and bench, and Manuel Menendez of the Th irteenth presented him with an engraved crystal Circuit and Chief Judge Paul Glenn of LEE COUNTY ASSOCIATION trophy. Judge Krista Marx, also of the the United States Bankruptcy Court FOR WOMEN LAWYERS 15th Judicial Circuit, introduced Judge for the Middle District of Florida, to Th e Lee County Vonhof and provided the name just a few, joined over 50 HAWL Association for crowd with some historical members and supporters to socialize, Women Lawyers is perspective. Members and share ideas and simply catch up on currently working guests enjoyed cocktails community events. HAWL was honored on increasing and hors d’oeuvres, as well that so many of our judges joined us. membership. as an opportunity to relax At HAWL’s February meeting, Bill Th e Chapter has with friends and colleagues. McBride, current shareholder at Barnett scheduled a judicial Bolt Kirkwood Long & McBride, former reception in May TALLAHASSEE long-time managing partner of Holland during Law Week Former Lee County President WOMEN LAWYERS & Knight and 2002 Democratic candidate to honor the local Laurie H. Anton (left) was Tallahassee Women for Florida governor, off ered HAWL judiciary. For the recognized by the Chapter and Lawyers celebrated its members and guests rainmaking tips. January meeting, presented with an appreciation 25th anniversary this year HAWL also collected prom dresses and plaque by President Josephine Fort Myers Mayor Gagliardi. with a banquet honoring accessories for the Cinderella Project in James Humphrey past presidents and conjunction with Blake High School. Th e was the guest founding members of the Cinderella Project provides dresses and speaker and provided personal views on organization, which was started in 1980. accessories to young women who would women in the workforce and an update TWL will present its annual luncheon otherwise miss the prom experience on the city of Fort Myers. Th e Chapter CLE seminars on May 3 and May 25, with because of expense. Due to the eff orts of also hosted a holiday tea and cookie a focus on ethical and practical issues HAWL members and HAWL’s friends, exchange in December and collected related to the use of electronic media. over 100 dresses, plus shoes, handbags gifts for young girls who reside in a local Topics will include electronic discovery, and jewelry, will be distributed to young housing project. Circuit Court Judge music piracy, planning for natural women in Hillsborough County. Margaret Steinbeck was the guest disasters, and electronic record keeping. speaker at the November luncheon. Two CLE credits are anticipated for each b b b £ CHAPTER NEWS, Continued on Page 21

SARASOTA FAWL South Palm Beach Board Sarasota FAWL received the Members and Outstanding Business Partner of the Judge Krista Year award from the Cyesis Teen Parent Marx with Program, which is a public school for honoree Judge pregnant teens and teenage mothers. In Gary Vonhof. the fall, the Sarasota chapter organized a baby shower for the students, and held a clothing drive so that the women FAWL JOURNAL • Spring 2006 19 £ Prioritization: Are you doing the right GETTING ORGANIZED: thing at the right time? Are we letting email requests jump to the top of our list You’ve Got Mail….But of priorities just because the request was delivered by email?

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by Kate Brown I fi nd that those who have internalized eff ective behaviors don’t struggle with email any more than they struggle with ecently an IT snail mail or telephone calls. Here are a Rconsultant named few habits of highly eff ective email users: Eric visited my offi ce £ Schedule reading your email as you to work on my laptop. would any other task. Turn off the As he updated my software, we chatted feature that dings every time a new about our work. I explained that, as a message comes in. Decide when you’ll productivity consultant, I teach clients to check — maybe late morning, after lunch become more organized in their offi ces. and before leaving. Interrupting your “You mean, you help them learn how “Individuals give wildly work every time a new message comes to clear all their papers off their desks?” in is among the worst productivity he asked. “Th at’s part of it,” I nodded. inaccurate estimates of how drains I’ve seen. Th en Eric made an interesting £ Understand that spam is not the observation. “You know,” he said. “It’s much time they’re devoting problem. While we’re all trying to keep funny. Whenever I go into a business unsolicited emails out of our inboxes, offi ce and I see a lot of paper and piles to e-mail. For those who no spam software can take the place all over the desk and the fi le cabinets, of your own commitment to delete, check every time a message right away I know that I’m going to fi nd delete, delete. And the fact is, it really that their computer is full of clutter. ” comes in, those little doesn’t take long to delete unwanted Why am I not surprised by Eric’s messages without opening them. Email remark? I’m not surprised because the interruptions add up fast.” overload, according to email expert person managing (or not managing) Mark Hurst, isn’t measured in terms of their electronic desktop comes to the the total number of messages received. task with the same brain that they It’s measured in terms of the number of use for managing the space in their our own behaviors and our skills — skills messages waiting for your attention. offi ce. If that person can’t create and that will aff ect how successfully we deal £ Keep your inbox empty. For some of maintain order in the “real world” of with not only email, but everything else you, this is a tall order. Th ink of your snail mail and management reports, that comes at us during a workday. In email inbox as a video game. Your score why would we expect them to be conducting seminars, I teach that there is shown at the bottom left of your organized in the virtual world? are six issues that aff ect our ability to screen where it indicates the number of It turns out that despite the become organized and to stay that way. “items” and your ideal score is ZERO. proliferation of ever more sophisticated Th ree of those issues have a direct impact Don’t browse your email looking for technology and tools, it is still on how eff ectively you deal with email: messages that are easy to deal with true that most people are about as £ Handling what comes in: Do you have and leave the hard ones sitting there. organized as they want to be. Fancier a system for processing incoming Set aside the time to go through your tools are neat, but they don’t boost items — whether it’s email, snail mail, messages sequentially (not cherry our productivity unless we use them phone messages or verbal requests? If picking), make your decisions, move in the context of sound organizing you have a system that works, email them to the appropriate reference folder principles….because staying organized becomes just another fl avor of input, if you must, but get them out of your is about habits, not gadgets. and you deal with it as you would any inbox. Th is brings me to the subject of other item that crosses your desk. £ Consider re-evaluating what content is email. Depending upon whom you £ Rational use of time: Do you know pushed to your mail box. Use the “rules” ask, email is either a terrifi c way to clearly how email fi ts into the larger feature in your email client program get things done, or it’s the biggest picture of how you spend your time each to route these messages directly to a time waster ever invented. How do day? I fi nd that individuals give wildly “Reading” folder. You really must not we get the productivity benefi ts of inaccurate estimates of how much time interrupt your work to do casual email email without getting sucked into they’re devoting to email. For those who reading at unplanned intervals. Set countless hours rearranging electrons? check every time a message comes in, aside specifi c time to do your casual First, we have to step back and look at those little interruptions add up fast. email reading. Th at said, most of us 20 Spring 2006 • FAWL JOURNAL subscribe to more content than we’ll £ CHAPTER NEWS, From Page 19 place among local voluntary bars at ever digest. Unsubscribing is like the annual Chili Cook-off sponsored cleaning out your garage — you’ll be by the Tallahassee Bar Association. amazed at how much space you’ll discover when you move out the stuff b b b you really don’t use. £ Change the email subject line when VOLUSIA-FLAGLER ASSOCIATION appropriate. A subject line should tell FOR WOMEN LAWYERS you what’s inside. I’m amazed at how Th e Volusia-Flagler Association many emails come in with generic for Women Lawyers is proud to subject lines such as, “FYI: Meeting report that it received a grant from Notes” as opposed to “FYI: Meeting Th e Florida Bar Foundation for Notes 3/4/06 for Smith Company TWL Chili Cook-off . From left: TWL purposes of coordinating and hosting Proposal.” If you get an email that’s Secretary Stephanie Daniel, board CLE seminars on poverty law issues. poorly labeled and you must keep member and FAWL President June VFAWL is working with Community McKinney Bartelle, and board members it for reference, change the subject Chasity O’Steen, Kim Driggers and Legal Services of Mid-Florida, Inc. to line to something that speaks to Jessica Olmedillo. produce three half-day CLE courses that you about the contents. Th en move will focus on Family Law, Consumer Law it to the appropriate folder in your seminar (general and ethics, respectively). Issues, Housing Issues, Guardianships, directory. Non-members are welcomed at the and Estates for indigent clients. Th e £ Make sure you’re using email CLE seminars and all TWL meetings. CLE’s will be free of charge, save the appropriately in the fi rst place. My TWL has also continued its cost of lunch, and will begin April 21. observation is that people initiate sponsorship of the local “Breakfast Participants will receive up to 4 CLER email when they want to throw the and Books” program, with an event credits, including 1 hour of ethics credit, ball into someone else’s court—which scheduled in March at the PACE for each seminar. Th e seminars are geared is fi ne, but email may not be the most Center in Tallahassee, where the to practitioners in other areas of the law, eff ective channel for taking the ball participants read and discussed in hopes that they will be better prepared any further. Just because someone Th e Outsiders. In May, TWL will to provide pro bono service to indigent initiates the exchange by email doesn’t continue its “Legacy of Excellence” clients. For additional information, mean you are required to continue the program introducing girls in grades 8 please feel free to contact Chapter conversation via email. Pick up the through 12 to the legal profession. Representative, Andrea M. Kurak, at phone. Finally, a TWL team recently took fi rst [email protected]. e

b b b Tell FAWL about your latest accomplishments Whether we love it or hate it, it E-MAIL NEWS TO: [email protected] looks as though email will be around for a while because it’s cheap and fast. I think most of us will agree that, in many circumstances, email is a huge improvement over licking stamps and envelopes. We just need to remember IN MEMORIAM: that our tools are only as good as we are at using them — and that our good Judge Anne E’del Deacon Fenyvessy habits will trump gadgets every time. e ormer FAWL President Anne E’del Deacon Kate S. Brown is a writer, speaker, FFenyvessy passed away on February 14, consultant, productivity enthusiast 2006 at the age of 102. Judge Deacon received and a Certifi ed GO System Trainer. her law degree from Temple University in Her company, Impact Organizing, 1939, where she was the only female law provides group workshops and executive training to help clients optimize their student. Judge Deacon began her practice in time, space and information. Kate has Lantana, where she specialized in family law and most recently co-authored of Focus. probate. In 1956, she was appointed to be the Organization. Productivity: Ideas for fi rst municipal court judge in Lantana, making her the fi rst female Improving Success in the Workplace judge in Palm Beach County and only the fourth female judge in the (Dawson Publishing, 2006). She lives in Sarasota, Florida and can be reached at State of Florida. She served as president of FAWL from 1959-1960, [email protected] or 941/927-6858. during which time 65 women were admitted to Th e Florida Bar. e FAWL JOURNAL • Spring 2006 21 Th e conference was co-sponsored by Th e Miccosukee Tribe of Indians of Florida Members and the Center for Indigenous Law, Governance & Citizenship at the Syracuse on the University College of Law. Unlike other Move Indian Law conferences that focus entirely on congressional and court updates, £ Th e 2006 Florida Bar President’s Pro years with the Section’s Award of the Indian Country Law Conference is Bono Service Award for the 2nd Judicial Excellence for CLE Programming. She dedicated to helping attorneys improve Circuit was presented to Gwendolyn was also named President of Th e C.H. their lawyering skills and become better P. Ad k i n s of Coppins Monroe Adkins Ferguson-M.E. White American Inn advocates for Indian Nations. Dincman & Spellman, P.A. She is a of Court. Th e American Inns of Court member of Tallahassee Women Lawyers. (AIC) are designed to improve skills, £ FAWL applauds the fi rm of Akerman Adkins represented a grandmother professionalism and ethics of the bench Senterfi tt, recognized in January as the seeking to adopt her grandchildren, and and bar. Th is chapter of the American Top Law Firm for Hispanic Americans her work was instrumental in a Florida Inns of Court was the fi rst chapter by MultiCultural Law magazine and Supreme Court case that clarifi ed the chartered in the Tampa area. presented with the Th omas L. Sager rights of adoptive parents. Award by the Minority Corporate £ Hillsborough Association for Women Counsel Association. Th e Sager Award £ Attorney Mikki Lawyers member Alyssa A. Ruge, of is presented to the law fi rm that has Canton, managing Cole, Scott, & Kissane, P.A., was recently demonstrated and sustained the highest partner in the appointed to serve on Th e Florida Bar commitment to improving the hiring, Miami offi ce of Journal News/Editorial Board Committee retention and promotion of minority Gunster, Yoakley for a three-year term. Th e Board works and women attorneys. “Th roughout the & Stewart, was to develop articles of current interest and history of the fi rm we have promoted honored at the fi rst concern to the profession, and reviews diversity and are proud of this continued annual Phenomenal and selects for publication only the most recognition,” said Akerman Senterfi tt Woman Awards worthy manuscripts. Chairman and CEO Tom Cardwell. hosted by Mujer (“Woman”) magazine to “Our diversity is ultimately a great recognize the contributions of exceptional £ Jill S. Schwartz has asset to our clients, who benefi t from women in their respective professions. been selected by her our wide range of perspectives and Approximately 15 women from television, peers to be included in innovative thinking.” business, law, real estate and other fi elds the 2006 Best Lawyers were recognized. Doral Mayor Juan in America and Florida’s FAWL CONGRATULATES THE Carlos Bermudez and other local leaders 2005 Legal Elite by FOLLOWING WOMEN RECENTLY and businessmen presented the awards. Florida Trend magazine. APPOINTED TO Pictured with Ms. Canton is El Nuevo Th is follows her August induction as JUDGESHIPS: Herald Business Manager Cesar Pizarro. a Fellow of Th e College of Labor and Catalina Celebrating its fi rst anniversary, Mujer Employment Lawyers. She is the fi rst Zuluaga-Avalos, magazine, a local Hispanic publication, female attorney from the State of Florida an assistant state recognized women who have graced its to be inducted into the College. Election attorney in Broward, pages since its founding. State Attorney as a Fellow is the highest recognition by was appointed to Katherine Fernandez-Rundle was among one’s colleagues of sustained outstanding the Broward County women who accepted awards at the event. performance in the profession, Court; Laurel M. FAWL President exemplifying integrity, dedication and Isicoff of the Miami- June C. McKinney £ Dinita L. James, excellence. She is the founder/managing Dade Chapter Bartelle (left) a partner in the partner of the Winter Park law fi rm and formerly with attended the Tampa offi ce of of Jill S. Schwartz & Associates, P.A., Kozyak Tropin & investiture of Ford & Harrison, and focuses her practice on Labor and Th rockmorton, P.A., Judge Alicia L. Latimore. was elected to the Employment Law as well as serving as a was appointed the Governing Council Certifi ed Mediator and Arbitrator. fi rst woman U.S. Bankruptcy Judge in the of the American Bar Southern District; Alicia L. Latimore, Association’s Section of Litigation. £ Dione Carroll, General Counsel of the was a[[pomted to a newly created 9th Selected by an advisory committee as Miccosukee Tribe of Indians of Florida, Judicial Circuit position in the criminal one of fi ve new Council members from announced Th e State of Our Nations, division; and Stacey Ross, an assistant among 14 candidates, she was appointed Florida’s Indian Law Conference, held in state attorney in the Offi ce of the State to chair the Council’s CLE Committee, February 23-25, 2006 at the Miccosukee Attorney, was appointed to fi ll a position after being honored for two consecutive Resort Conference Center in Miami. in the Broward County Court. e

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