Members of the public are invited to volunteer on or before April 6 for a three-year term on the Florida Board of Bar Examiners. The Supreme Court of Florida will appoint a public member.
A volunteer public member should possess education or work-related experience such as educational testing, accounting, statistical analysis, medicine, psychology, or related sciences that will assist the board in determining each applicant’s character, fitness, and educational and technical competence. A bachelor’s degree is required. Lawyers are not eligible. Public board members should be willing and able to devote up to three days a month to Board of Bar Examiners’ duties and travel. Service requires travel to various Florida locations to attend board meetings and the examination, with travel and subsistence expenses reimbursed.
Board members should be interested in seeking to improve the bar examination and its administration, and in evaluating carefully the character and fitness of applicants seeking admission to the Bar. Board members should be free of adverse interests, conflicting duties, or inconsistent obligations that may interfere or appear to interfere with the proper administration of the board’s mandate from the court.
The vacancy will occur on November 1, with the expiration of the term of Steven R. Maxwell of Sanibel Island.
Persons interested in applying for the position as a public member serving on the board should contact Michele A. Gavagni, executive director, Florida Board of Bar Examiners, by fax at 850-414-6822, or by mail at 1891 Eider Court, Tallahassee 32399-1750, to obtain an application, which must be completed and filed in the board’s office by the close of business of Monday, April 6. The application may also be obtained from The Florida Bar’s Web site at www.floridabar.org.
— Courtesy Florida Bar News