by The Florida Bar News
Coral Gables attorney and former Florida Bar Board of Governors member Miles A. McGrane III has been elected without opposition as the state Bar’s president-elect designate. He will take office in June 2002 as president-elect and in June 2003 will become Florida Bar president.
“It’s almost trite because everyone says this: I’m flattered and honored and humbled by this,” McGrane said after his election. He said he first thought about running for president two or three years ago, but the timing wasn’t right. But in the last year, after serving as convention chair for immediate past President Herman Russomanno and attending President Terry Russell’s retreat last August on equal access to justice, “I realized how much good The Florida Bar does and how important the position of president of The Florida Bar is in a number of areas,” he said.
McGrane, 54, was born in upstate New York but has lived in Florida since 1954. He received his law degree from the Cumberland School of Law in 1975, and has been practicing law in Miami since. He was an associate at Adams, George, Wood, Lee & Schulte from 1975-78, and then at George & Thompson from 1978-80. He was a partner at Kubicki, Draper, Gallagher & McGrane from 1980-1993, and is now president of McGrane and Nosich.
He has served on and chaired a Bar grievance committee, and he served on the Board of Governors, representing the 11th Circuit, from 1992-2000. Among other activities, McGrane is on the board of directors of the Florida Bar Foundation, where he serves on the Budget and Finance, Legal Assistance to the Poor, and Law Student Assistance IOTA Grant committees.
McGrane has held several posts in the Dade County Bar Association, belongs to the International Association of Defense Counsel, and is a member of the Florida and national chapters of the American Board of Trial Advocates. He has served on and chaired the 11th Circuit Judicial Nominating Commission.
McGrane is a member of the Dade County Defense Bar Association, the Florida Defense Lawyers Association, the Florida Medical Malpractice Claims Counsel, the American Academy of Hospital Attorneys, the American College of Legal Medicine, and the South Florida Society for Healthcare Risk Management.
He has served on the Board of Governors of the Florida Medical Malpractice Joint Underwriting Association since 1982 and is a past president of the Legal Services of Great Miami, Inc., Board of Directors. McGrane is also an adjunct professor in the University of Miami School of Law’s trial program.
McGrane is married to Patricia Lea McGrane, and they have three children, Miles IV, Ashley, and Blake.
— Reprinted with permission of The Florida Bar News.