Phil Ammann
Gov. Rick Scott named Tampa Bay-based attorney Ian Leavengood to the 6th Circuit Judicial Nominating Commission.
Leavengood, 44, is a native of St. Petersburg and a lawyer with LeavenLaw, a third-generation legal firm specializing in a variety of consumer practices: personal injury, criminal and DUI defense, and foreclosure and bankruptcy law. He is rated preeminent by the peer reviewed Martindale-Hubbell and named in the annual Best Lawyers in America.
According to his bio, Leavengood earned a master’s in accounting and his juris doctor from the University of Florida. Afterward, he was an internal business consultant for The Procter & Gamble Distributing Co. Leavengood also was a judicial extern for Florida Supreme Court Justice Ben F. Overton. He worked with Deloitte’s Special Acquisition Services, which exclusively services merger and acquisition activity for Kohlberg, Kravis & Roberts, a leveraged buyout firm.
Leavengood returned to St. Petersburg in 2003 to join LeavenLaw, where he now manages the firm and chairs the consumer law, class actions, and real estate & title departments. He will succeed Paul Gross for a term through July 1, 2018.
Florida has 26 judicial nominating commissions to recommend applicants for state court vacancies: A statewide nominating commission for the Florida Supreme Court, commissions for each of the five district courts of appeal, and commissions for each of the 20 circuit courts in the state.
Each nominating commission comprises of nine members appointed by the governor to four-year terms. Four members are lawyers selected from a list of nominees submitted by The Florida Ba. Of the remaining five, at least two must also be lawyers.
Photo courtesy of ©Diana Lucas Leavengood.
