The Jacksonville Bar Association elected its board of governors at Thursday night’s annual meeting at Deerwood Country Club. Daniel Bean of Holland and Knight; Tammy Dawson Butler of Driver, McAfee and Griggs; Joseph Camerlengo of Camerlengo and Brockwell; Braxton Gillam IV of Milam, Howard, Nicandri, Dees and Gillam; and Cheryl Worman of Rogers Towers were elected from a seven-candidate field. Kelly Mathis, a partner in Gobleman, Love, Gavin, Blazs and Mathis, is the 2005 president-elect. His candidacy was unopposed.
Here’s a look at the men and women who were elected last week:
• Alan Pickert of Terrell Hogan was last year’s President-Elect and will be installed formally as the new JBA President next month along with newly-elected group.
• President-elect Kelly Mathis has been a member of the Florida Bar since 1988. He graduated from Vanderbilt University’s law school in 1988. Mathis has been active in the JBA, chairing the Law Day Run Committee, the Law School for the Public Committee and the Directory/Scholarship Committee. He volunteered to serve in 2002 as assistant clerk for the Duval County Supervisor of Elections where he assisted the Duval County election project to improve area voting following the 2000 election. Mathis runs in his spare time away from trial practice. He’s run the New York City Marathon and the Walt Disney Marathon, among others.
• Holland and Knight attorney Daniel Bean has served on the board of governors since 2001. Prior to that he served on the Young Lawyers Section board of governors from 1999 to 2001. He was named the committee’s outstanding board member in 2001. Bean has chaired the JBA Military Affairs Committee since 2004. Bean is a commander in the United States Naval Reserve. He wants to make the JBA more responsive to its members.
• Tammy Dawson Butler of Driver, McAfee and Griggs began in 2004 her current term on the YLS board of governors. She chaired the section’s Special Olympics Committee and the Scholarship Committee. She is the treasurer for the D.W. Perkins Bar Association and served as a volunteer captain for the Super Bowl Host Committee. She wants more diversity among JBA members participating in bar activities.
• Camerlengo and Brockwell partner Joseph Camerlengo has served on the board of governors since 2001. He’s co-chaired the Entertainment and Sports Law section and served as president of the YLS in 2000-2001. He’s served on the Board of Directors for Duval County Teen Court since 2000.
He promises to pursue a better County Courthouse and said he wants to improve the public
perception of attorneys on the
First Coast.
• Braxton Gillam of Milam, Howard, Nicandri, Dees and Gillam has served since 2000 as a YLS board member and is the current president. His goal is to build a local coalition to lobby for appropriate representation of Jacksonville
attorneys on the First District Court of Appeal.
• Cheryl Worman of Rogers Towers has been a member of the board of governors since 2002 and served on the YLS board from
1998 to 2003. She’s served on several boards in the community including the Junior League of Jacksonville and Planned Parenthood of Northeast Florida. Her goal is a more diverse JBA with more active
members.