Four Florida Bar members have been elected to The Florida Bar Board of Governors and 12 incumbents, including Hank Coxe, have been re-elected without opposition. Sixteen Bar members will contest for seven Board of Governors seats in March’s board elections. All board members take office June 27.
New board members — for two-year terms — elected
without opposition are:
Lawrence E. Sellers Jr., Tallahassee, 2nd Circuit, Seat 1
Kimberly A. Bald, Bradenton, 12th Circuit, Seat 2
Nancy W. Gregoire, Ft. Lauderdale, 17th Circuit, Seat 2
Gary J. Leppla, Ohio, Out-of-State, Seat 3
Incumbents elected without opposition
for two-year terms beginning in
2003 are:
Henry M. Coxe III, Jacksonville , 4th Circuit, Seat 2
William H. Phelan, Ocala, 5th Circuit, Seat 1
Robert A. Rush, Gainesville, 8th Circuit, Seat 1
David B. Rothman, Miami, 11th Circuit, Seat 2
Sharon L. Langer, Miami, 11th Circuit, Seat 6
John F. Rudy II, Tampa, 13th Circuit, Seat 2
Amy L. Smith, West Palm Beach, 15th Circuit, Seat 4
James S. Lupino, Tavernier, 16th Circuit, Seat 1
Henry Latimer, Ft. Lauderdale, 17th Circuit, Seat 3
Frank C. Walker II, Ft. Lauderdale, 17th Circuit, Seat 5
A. Lawrence Ringers, Ft. Myers, 20th Circuit, Seat 2
Richard A. Tanner, New Jersey, Out-of-State, Seat 1
Running in contested races are:
6th Judicial Circuit, Seat 2: Denis A. Cohrs, Clearwater; Raleigh W.
Greene III, St. Petersburg; Lynn Howell, Gulfport;
and Murray B. Silverstein, St. Petersburg.
If none of the four candidates receives a majority on the first ballot,
there will be a runoff in April.
9th Circuit, Seat 2: Russell W. Divine, Orlando;
and Michael Murphy, Orlando
11th Circuit, Seat 4: Jennifer R. Coberly, Miami;
and Robert G. Whittel, Miami
11th Circuit, Seat 8: Steven E. Chaykin, Miami;
and Sheri E. Nott, Miami
13th Circuit, Seat 3: Daniel P. Mitchell, Tampa;
and Gwynne A. Young, Tampa
15th Circuit, Seat 2: Jerald S. Beer, West Palm Beach;
and Richard B. Kay, Tequesta
19th Circuit, Seat 1: Gean Cary Junginger Jr., Ft. Pierce;
and Harold G. Melville, Ft. Pierce
Ballots for contested races will be mailed to eligible voters by March 1, 2003.
The Bar’s 52-member board consists of the president and president-elect, the president and president-elect of the Young Lawyers Division, representatives elected by members of the Bar from each of the state’s 20 judicial circuits, four out-of-state representatives elected by Florida Bar members who reside outside of Florida, and two public members appointed by the Florida Supreme Court.