by Richard Prior
Staff Writer
The members of the Jacksonville Bar Association elected five attorneys out of a field of eight to serve on the board of governors for the next two years.
Final balloting was held last week during the annual meeting at the Omni and the installation of officers luncheon will be June 10, when Reginald Luster of Luster and Davis, and will move up from the president-elect position to succeed Jim Moseley Jr. of Moseley, Warren, Pritchard and Parrish.
Elected to the board were Robert T. Devine, G. Ray Driver Jr., Caroline C. Emery, Michael R. Freed and Courtney K. Grimm.
President-elect Alan M. Pickert was unopposed.
Devine, with Coffman, Coleman, Andrews & Grogan, has served on the board of governors (2002-04), Jacksonville Bar Young Lawyers board of governors (00-02) and was editor-in-chief of the Jacksonville Bar Bulletin (00-01).
Driver, with Driver & McAfee and a member of the board of governors, is the outgoing president of the Young Lawyers Section.
He was treasurer of the YLS (01-02) and also served on the YLS board of governors (00-01).
Emery is administrative law clerk for U.S. District Judge Harvey E. Schlesinger. She received the Florida Bar president’s Pro Bono Service Award, is a member of the board of governors and has been chairman of the Commercial Litigation Section since 2000.
Freed is with Brennan, Manna and Diamond. He was co-chairman of the Raymond Ehrlich Trial Advocacy Seminar, was president of the Federal Bar Association’s Jacksonville chapter (01-02) and is a member of the Chester Bedell Inn of Court (Barrister).
Grimm, with The Bedell Firm, has been a member of the JBA Long Range Planning Committee, the YLS-Florida Bar Liaison to the JBA Young Lawyers Board and the JBA Professionalism Committee.
Pickert is a partner in the firm of Brown, Terrell, Hogan, Ellis, McClamma and Yegelwel and has served on the board of directors for the Young Lawyers Division of the Academy of Trial Lawyers, is former president of the YLS and has been on the JBA board since 1996.
He recently received The Florida Bar President’s Pro Bono Service Award and is a member of The Florida Bar, American Bar Association, Academy of Florida Trial Lawyers and Association of Trial Lawyers of America.