Autumn 2003 • FAWL Journal Because of Budgetary Restraints
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FAWL TO HOST HON. MATTIE BELLE DAVIS MEMORIAL LUNCHEON. SEE PAGE 16 FOR TICKET AND SPONSORSHIP INFORMATION. FAWL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE CHAPTERS ○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○ ○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○ £ £ Dinita L. James . 813/261-7858 MIAMI LAW SCHOOL President [email protected] Ana Rosa Ramirez . 305/468-1557 President £ Deborah Magid . 305/770-4892 [email protected] President-Elect [email protected] £ MIAMI-DADE £ Julie Koves . 407/275-4451 Chantale Leif Suttle . 305/665-3399 Treasurer [email protected] Chapter Representative £ Carolyn C. Coukos [email protected] . 941/262-8800 Deborah Magid . 305/770-4892 [email protected] Treasurer-Elect President £ Vene M. Hamilton . 954/894-9333 [email protected] Secretary [email protected] £ NORTHWEST £ Frances Grace Cooper . 941/308-3080 Abigail Sanders . 850/469-0202 Journal Editor [email protected] Chapter Representative £ [email protected] Mary K. Wimsett . 352/395-6206 £ BREVARD Maureen Duignan . 850/434-2411 x144 Membership [email protected] Shannon L. Wilson-Farmer . 321/633-2090 President £ June C. McKinney Bartelle . 850/414-3771 President [email protected] Public Relations [email protected] [email protected] £ NOVA £ £ Siobhan H. Shea . 561/655-4114 BROWARD Suzanne Hernandez . 954/797-1838 Immediate Past President [email protected] Sharon Bleier Glickman . 954/752-7701 President [email protected] £ Chapter Representive Pat Stephens . 850/894-0055 [email protected] £ PALM BEACH Executive Director [email protected] Candice Tobin . 954/769-5491 Dana M. Santino . 561/683-2484 President Chapter Representive FAWL COMMITTEES [email protected] [email protected] ○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○ ○○○ £ CFAWL Cynthia Spall . 561/650-0563 Linda Dolan . 407/841-2330 President £ AMICUS Chapter Representive [email protected] Allison K. Bethel . 954/712-4608 [email protected] £ PINELLAS [email protected] Lori T. Milvain . 407/481-5813 Vicki L. Kaufholz . 727/669-5888 £ BYLAWS COMMITTEE President Chapter Representive [email protected] [email protected] Meenakshi A Hirani . 407/599-7199 £ [email protected] CLARA GEHAN (8TH CIRCUIT) Susan L. Hartman . 727/567-1000 x35428 Kathleen C. Fox . 352/462-5157 President £ EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES LAW LIAISON President [email protected] Maryann Clark . 954/712-4600 [email protected] £ SARASOTA [email protected] £ COLLIER Alyssa M. Sells . 941/363-0110 £ HISTORIAN Carolyn C. Coukos . 239/262-8800 President Chapter Representive [email protected] Wendy Loquasto . 850/487-2267, x176 £ [email protected] [email protected] SOUTH PALM BEACH £ Jeanne L. Seewald . 239/598-1221 Lisa M. Peraza . 561/394-0500 JUDICIAL SELECTION President President Sherri L. Johnson, Chair . 941/952-1070 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] £ HILLSBOROUGH £ STETSON Ellen Malasky, Vice Chair . 561/842-3000 Robin L. Rosenberg . 727/ 824-6199 Jennifer Suarez . 813/207-0272 [email protected] Chapter Representive President £ [email protected] [email protected] LEGISLATIVE £ Nola M. Richardson . 954/721-7300 Rebecca H. Steele . 813/254-0925 ST. THOMAS [email protected] President Audrey B. Faust . 305/820-0090 [email protected] Co-President Lori K. Weems, Lobbyist . 850/425-5679 £ JACKSONVILLE [email protected] [email protected] Paula Preziosi Brice . 904/398-9002 Juliana Millon . 305/793-2759 £ NCWBA LIAISON Chapter Representative Co-President Dawn Siler-Nixon, President . 813/261-7800 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Paola Parra . 904/398-9002 £ TALLAHASSEE President Mary Ellen Clark . 850/414-3764 £ NOMINATING COMMITTEE [email protected] Chapter Representative Siobhan H. Shea . 561/655-4114 £ LEE [email protected] [email protected] Laurie H. Anton . 239/334-4121 x211 Ruth E. Stone . 850/644-0888 £ PUBLIC SERVICE Chapter Representative President Michelle R. Suskauer . 561/687-7866 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Carolyn Delizia . 941/334-4121 £ TREASURE COAST President Oliveann Lancy . 561/219-0911 [email protected] Chapter Representative SOUND FAWL’S VOICE £ MANATEE [email protected] IN TALLAHASSEE: Vanessa N. Opstal . 941/746-8118 Patricia A. Baldwin . 772/336-1661 FAWL’s Legislative Committee is requesting President President [email protected] [email protected] a representative from each chapter to par- £ MARION £ VOLUSIA/FLAGLER ticipate. The Committee will list and review Janet L. Fuller . 352/629-7511 Andrea Kurak . 386/255-8171 legislative issues and make recommendations President President to FAWL regarding annual legislative priori- [email protected] [email protected] ties, and coordinate lobbying efforts with FAWL’s pro bono lobbyist. Please forward the FLORIDA ASSOCIATION FOR WOMEN LAWYERS name, address, telephone number, and e-mail P.O. Box 15998 • Tallahassee, FL 32317-5998 • 850/894-0055 address of your selected chapter represen- ADVERTISE WITH FAWL … in print or on-line. tative to Nola Richardson as listed above. Contact Pat Stephens at [email protected] or 850/894-0055. 2 Autumn 2003 • FAWL Journal because of budgetary restraints. The publication is expensive, President’s Message making up about a third of FAWL’s recent budgets. by Dinita L. James This year, we are planning for only two issues of the Journal so ○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○ we can improve other member communications. Look for a Where Are the Pumps? monthly electronic newsletter, the FAWL E-News, which will he summer of 2003 brought some well as the following: provide more timely communications Tsignificant milestones for me. The about upcoming events and programs. highlight came on June 27, when I was Note from the editor and publisher: We received FAWL also will experiment with installed as President of the Florida many critical comments about our cover art for the advertising in the Florida Bar News to Association for Women Lawyers. Close July issue. Mea culpa. We generally try to do a promote membership in the associa- behind that big event came the July good job in this regard, but in this case we made tion and our events and programming. 2003 issue of the ABA Journal. There, on an error in judgment and I apologize. We are planning at least three half- page 52, is my photo, and on the next page ads during the course of the year. page, a quote from me in the article I for one appreciated the apology. Even We also plan significant improve- “New Route for Class Actions.” Some the best-intentioned bar organizations ments in our website, www.fawl.org. pretty nice exposure for the class action can make mistakes. FAWL likewise may By the end of 2003, the website will be defense practice I have been working make a mistake or two during this upgraded completely to allow access for years to develop. for each chapter to update and It is the cover of that issue of promote its own events. Each FAWL the ABA Journal, however, that member also will be able to access his keeps coming back to mind. or her own directory listing to make Promoting an article on survival address changes and corrections. That tactics for mid-sized law firms is just the highlights of the website was a cover illustration featur- upgrade. Make sure you bookmark the ing fourteen pairs of large, site as one of your favorites, and keep brown, men’s Oxford-style dress an eye on our many improvements. shoes surrounding a “mid-sized” FAWL also is growing. In July, we pair just like all the others. greeted a new chapter, the South There was not a single pair of Palm Beach County Chapter. In pumps among them. September, we welcomed the Miami So, the American Bar Law Women, an established women’s Association, which espouses a group at the University of Miami strong commitment to diversity School of Law, which just decided to and which has a Commission come under the FAWL umbrella. on Women in the Profession Other potential chapters have that studies gender bias issues, contacted FAWL expressing interest in nevertheless puts a blatantly joining. sexist illustration on the cover FAWL has a long history of lobby- of its featured magazine. ing the Florida Legislature on issues of How does this happen? Who importance to women and women would not recognize the lawyers. We hope to rejuvenate those message of exclusion sent by an organizational year, when many changes efforts for the 2004 legislative session. illustration depicting lawyers’ shoes are under way. Spearheading that effort are pro bono that are only those of men? One significant area of change will be lobbyist Lori Weems of Holland & Those questions I cannot answer. in our member communications. This is Knight in Tallahassee and Legislative However, in the September 2003 one of only two hard-copy Journal issues Committee Chair Nola Richardson. issue of the ABA Journal, under the that will appear this year. The second FAWL wants at least one member headline “Walk a mile,” appeared two issue will appear in the spring. In recent from every chapter to serve on the letters from women ABA members history, FAWL has budgeted for four Legislative Committee, so we have protesting the cover illustration, as issues a year and has cut back to three £ PUMPS, Page 15 How does this happen? Who would not recognize the message of exclusion? FAWL Journal • Autumn 2003 3 Florida Association for Women Lawyers Use this form to MEMBER APPLICATION update Application also available at website: http://www.fawl.org/ membership All applications submitted through the FAWL office are forwarded to local chapters information. along with payment for local dues or send to the address noted for each chapter below. 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