PERSONAL:

• Born June 6, 1970, in Vicksburg, Mississippi
• Married, two children

EDUCATION:

• J.D. (with Honors), Florida State University College of Law, 1995
Florida State University Law Review
Journal of Land Use & Environmental Law
Journal of Transnational Law & Policy

• B.A. (Cum Laude), Vanderbilt University, 1992

APPOINTED:

• June 27, 2011, by Governor Rick Scott

OFFICES AND POSITIONS:

• Judge, First District Court of Appeal (2011 to present)
• Chair, State of Florida Public Employees Relations Commission (2008-11)
• Second Circuit Judicial Nominating Commission (2002-06; Chair 2005-06)
• Associate/Assistant Dean, Florida State University College of Law (2000-08)
• Associate Attorney, Ausley & McMullen, P.A., Tallahassee (1995-99)

PROFESSIONAL OFFICES AND ACTIVITIES:  The Florida Bar Standing Committee on Professionalism (Chair, 2010 to present; Vice Chair, 2008-10; past chair of multiple subcommittees); The Florida Bar Labor & Employment Law Section (Executive Council, 2009 to present; Website Subcommittee Chair, 2010 to present; NLRB Liaison Subcommittee Co-Chair, 2009-11; Certification Review Program Co-Chair, 2009-10; presenter at CLE seminars); The Florida Bar Appellate Practice Section (Executive Council, 2011 to present); The Florida Bar Judicial Nominating Procedures Committee (2006 to present; Uniform Rules for Technology Subcommittee Chair, 2009-10; Panelist, JNC Training Seminar, 2009, 2011); The Florida Bar Annual Meeting Committee (2005-07); The Florida Bar Student Education and Admissions to the Bar Committee (Chair, 2004-05); The Florida Supreme Court Commission on Professionalism (2010 to present); William H. Stafford Chapter of the American Inns of Court (Master of the Bench, 2011 to present; Secretary, 2009 to present; Membership Chair, 2007-10; Member, 2004 to present); Tallahassee Women Lawyers (Board of Directors, 1998-2001, 2009 to present; Director of Mentoring, 2010 to present); Justice Teaching Volunteer for Florida State University Schools (2010 to present); Florida State University College of Law Alumni Association Board of Directors (President-Elect, 2011 to present; Secretary, 2010-11); Tallahassee Bar Association (Board of Directors, 1998-2000; Member, 1995 to present); Tallahassee Bar Association Young Lawyers Section (President, 1998-99; President-Elect, 1997-98; Founding Board Member, 1997); Tallahassee Legal Aid Foundation (Board of Directors, 1999-2001); The Federalist Society Tallahassee Lawyers Chapter (President, 1995-99; Member, 1995 to present).

 CIVIC ACTIVITIES: Leadership Florida Class XXIX; Leadership Tallahassee Class XV (Board of Governors, 2005-06; Opportunity Tallahassee Chair, 2005-06; multiple subcommittees); SouthWood YMCA Advisory Council (2010 to present); Junior League of Tallahassee (Sustaining Member, 2008 to present; Board of Directors, 2002-03; Active Member, 1995-2008); Ronald McDonald House of Tallahassee, Inc. (Board of Directors, 2009); Brehon Institute for Family Services (Board of Directors, 1998-2000); St. Peter’s Anglican Church; Kappa Delta Tallahassee Alumni Association; Gulf Winds Track Club.

 HONORS AND AWARDS:  The Florida Bar Labor & Employment Law Section Volunteer of the Year Award (2010-11; 2009-10); The Florida Bar Standing Committee on Professionalism Service Award (2008-09; 2009-10); Selected by Florida Association of Women Lawyers as a member of the inaugural group of Outstanding Women in the Law (2010); The Florida Bar Young Lawyers Division Most Productive Young Lawyer Award (1997).

 STAFF: 

•         Tip Tomberlin, Career Attorney

•         Lindsey Lawton, Senior Law Clerk

•         C.J. Marston, Judicial Assistant