Three nonlawyers from North and Central Florida have been picked as finalists to be the next public member on the Bar Board of Governors.
Alvin V. Alsobrook of Gainesville, Judith O. Rosenkranz of Tampa, and Marni F. Stahlman of Winter Park were nominated by the board at its March 28 meeting. Their names will be forwarded to the Supreme Court, which will make the final choice to replace outgoing public board member Blair Culpepper, who has served the maximum two terms allowed under Bar rules.
Board member Andy Sasso, who chaired the committee that screened public member applicants, said 21 people applied for the upcoming public member vacancy. The committee narrowed that to seven people to be interviewed, and then recommended the three finalists to the board, which ratified that action.
Alsobrook, 73, is semi-retired from being vice president of the University of Florida and currently runs Alsobrook and Associates, a public relations and consulting firm. Over the years, he has worked for a variety of companies and is also a former staffer for the Florida Senate’s former Ways and Means Committee, which oversaw the state’s finances and taxes. He has served on the Bar’s Eighth Circuit Grievance Committee and is currently a member of the Bar’s Citizens Forum.
Rosenkranz, 68, was founding editor and chief of the Jewish Floridian of Tampa, worked for GTE of Florida, and was vice president and secretary of a family corporation that was dissolved in 2007. She currently serves on a 13th Circuit grievance committee. Her late husband was a lawyer who taught law courses both at the University of Florida and Stetson University, and several other relatives are actively practicing law. Rosenkranz is the former president of the Hillsborough County Bar Auxiliary, among many other civic and charitable activities.
Stahlman, 43, is a self-employed consultant for associations and small businesses, and has served on a Ninth Circuit grievance committee. She is a former chair of the Orange County/City of Orlando Citizens Review Commission and has served on a variety of other civic and charitable organizations. Stahlman has a psychology degree and much of her civic and charitable work is related to mental health issues. She also earlier this year had her first child, a daughter.
Whoever is selected by the court will be sworn in for a two-year term at the Bar’s June convention.
— Courtesy Florida Bar News