Staff Reports
As The Florida Bar prepares to launch its Annual Convention at the Boca Raton Resort & Club in Boca Raton, it announced that hundreds of attorneys will be honored for 50 years of dedication to the practice of law at the convention next Friday.
Among the honorees are John W. Frost II, a former Bar president from 1996-1997 who will also serve as keynote speaker.
Of note to Florida politics watchers: Civil rights activist and former Florida Senate Democratic Leader Arthenia Joyner of Tampa; and Bob Butterworth of Fort Lauderdale, the 33rd Attorney General of Florida who was elected four times and served under three Florida governors.
In total, the Bar will honor 375 attorneys for 50 years of dedication to the practice of law during a luncheon hosted by the Bar’s Senior Lawyers Committee on Friday, June 28, at 12:30 p.m.
To be recognized, attorneys must be members in good standing of The Florida Bar, active or inactive, and attain their 50th anniversary of admittance to the practice of law in 2019.
Nine ‘senior counselors’ — who have achieved 50 years in the practice, even if they spent part of their careers in other states — also will be recognized at the luncheon.
The honorees (by judicial circuit) include the following:
First Circuit
John R. Behr, Pensacola
John Robinson Dowd, Shalimar
Horace Joseph Fite, Pensacola
Nicholas P. Geeker, Pensacola
James W. Grimsley, Fort Walton Beach
John Patrick Kuder, Pensacola
James Marshall Weber, Pensacola
David Luther Woodward, Pensacola
Second Circuit
Chris Howard Bentley, Tallahassee
Alfred Winston Clark, Jr., Tallahassee
Clinton H. Coulter, Jr., Tallahassee
Alan Robert Dakan, Tallahassee
Riley Davis, Tallahassee
Robert Carlton Dean, Tallahassee
Howell L. Ferguson, Tallahassee
Lawrence Hardy, Tallahassee
Kenneth H. Hart, Jr., Tallahassee
James Eugene Kelley, Jr., Tallahassee
William Fenton Langston, Tallahassee
James Newton McConnaughhay, Tallahassee
Ronald Aaron Mowrey, Tallahassee
Robert Olive, Jr., Tallahassee
Philip Samuel Parsons, Tallahassee
Maurice Julian Proctor, Jr., Tallahassee
Linda M. Rigot, Tallahassee
Louis Edward Stolba, Tallahassee
James Harold Thompson, Tallahassee
Diane Dubois Tremor, Tallahassee
Jon S. Wheeler, Tallahassee
William W. Wilhelm, Tallahassee
Third Circuit
Craig Charles Jacobsen, Live Oak
Donald Karl Rudser, Jasper
Fourth Circuit
Henry Lee Adams, Jr., Jacksonville
Allison Graham Allen, Jr., Jacksonville
Douglas Knowles Bischoff, Fernandina Beach
Stephen Donald Busey, Jacksonville
Robert Lawrence Cowles, Jacksonville
Stephen Henry Davis, Jacksonville
Michael Francis Dawes, Jacksonville
Jeffrey David Dunn, Jacksonville
William Ernest Falck, Jacksonville
Lyman T. Fletcher, Jacksonville
Stephen Orner Hart, Keystone Heights
Richard Craig Hemphill, Jacksonville
Fred Cromwell Isaac, Jacksonville
Young Thomas Kirby, Jacksonville
Samuel Louis LePrell, Jacksonville
Terrence Joseph Russell, Jacksonville
Howard Towsend Snyder, Amelia Island
Thomas Roy Spencer, Jr., Middleburg
Courtney Wilder Stanton, Jacksonville
Quentin Thomas Till, Jacksonville
Fifth Circuit
Alan Stephen Gold, The Villages
Stephen Patrick Kanar, Mount Dora
William Walter Mitchell, Ocala
Jacqueline Beltram Whatley, Ocala
Sixth Circuit
William Arthur Borja, Clearwater
Albert Tharin Cooper, III, Clearwater
Wayne R. Coulter, Port Richey
Robert A. Douglass, St. Pete Beach
Enrique Escarraz, III, St. Petersburg
Thomas Brent Freeman, St. Petersburg
John Charles Lenderman, St. Petersburg
Justin Robert Lumley, Seminole
Ronald Glenn McCord, Dade City
David Green Mulock, St. Petersburg
Norris Rickey, Tierra Verde
Gerald Augustus Tavares, New Port Richey
Stephen G. Watts, Clearwater
Thomas McMillan Woodruff, Clearwater
Seventh Circuit
William Akers, III, Ormond Beach
Drake M. Batchelder, St. Augustine
Nord Lee Johnson, Sr., Deland
Jonathan D. Kaney, Jr., Ormond Beach
Tanya M. Plaut, Edgewater
Frederick Steven Robbins, Daytona Beach
Kimball Kent Ross, Daytona Beach
Lansing John Roy, St. Augustine
Richard Alan Sadow, St. Augustine
Thomas Hudgins Warlick, Oak Hill
Clark Wilkinson Wheeler, St. Augustine
Thomas George Wright, Jr., Deland
Eighth Circuit
Scottie James Butler, Gainesville
John William Conness, Gainesville
S.E. Cushman, Gainesville
Michael Thomas Gengler, Gainesville
Donald C. Peters, Gainesville
Joseph Evans Smith, Williston
Ninth Circuit
W.C. Airth, Jr., Orlando
Herbert Lee Allen, Jr., Orlando
Jeffery Arnold, Orlando
Edward Joseph Barry, IV, Winter Park
John Franklin Bennett, Winter Park
Jed Berman, Winter Park
James Barr Bogner, II, Orlando
Stephen J. Bozarth, Orlando
Jeffrey Byron Clark, Orlando
Jose Alfredo Diaz-Asper, St. Cloud
Charles Henry Egerton, Orlando
John W. Frost II, Bartow
Richard A. Leigh, Winter Park
Robert Leventhal, Orlando
David Leonard Levy, Orlando
James Ayres McNabb, Jr., Maitland
Robert William Mead, Jr., Orlando
John Burnette Ritch, Kissimmee
Charles R. Trulock, Jr., Orlando
Lawrence Middleton Watson, Jr., Maitland
Charles Wilson Willits, Orlando
W.E. Winderweedle, Jr., Winter Park
Gary Charles Wohlust, Winter Park
Tenth Circuit
Stephen Jeffrey Berlinsky, Haines City
Jack Putnam Brandon, Winter Haven
Charles Richard Chilton, Winter Haven
Rodney Leon Durrance, Jr., Winter Haven
John Wesley Frost, II, Bartow
Valentine Gabaldon, Auburndale
John Steve Gribble, Haines City
Ernest Vane McClurg, Lakeland
Robert Eugene Puterbaugh, Lakeland
James J. Traviss, Winter Haven
Louis James Williams, Lakeland
Eleventh Circuit
Steven Richard Berger, Aventura
Michael Alan Berke, Miami
Hugh Harris Bernstein, Miami
Roger Michael Bernstein, Coral Gables
Melvin Sidney Black, Miami
Michael Harvey Blacker, Miami
Kenneth Marc Bloom, Miami
John James Boyle, Miami
Robert Gordon Breier, Coral Gables
Richard Harvey Breslow, Aventura
Alfred Robert Camner, Miami
Harold Chopp, Miami Beach
Philip Laurence Coller, Miami
Katherine Warthen Ezell, Miami
Thomas Farrar, Miami
Raul Fernandez-Valle, Miami
Philip Freidin, Miami
Fernando F. Freire, Homestead
Harvey D. Friedman, Miami
Leonard Eugene Glick, Miami
Franklyn Barry Glinn, Miami
James Aaron Hauser, Miami
Thomas W. Headley, Miami Beach
Martin Harold Hodder, Miami
David Bruce Javits, North Miami Beach
Michael Robert Josephs, Coral Gables
Lewis Stephen Kimler, Miami
Stephen Asher Kress, Miami
Marshall Ronald Krongold, Coral Gables
Jerome Charles Levenstein, Coral Gables
Bruce B. Litwer, Coral Gables
Robert Clyde McClymonds, Coral Gables
Stephen Mechanic, Miami
David Jack Mesnekoff, Miami
Leonard David Pertnoy, Miami Gardens
William Raymond Radford, Miami
Joel David Rosenblatt, Miami
Gilbert Lee Sandler, Miami
Charles Thomas Sands, Coral Gables
Fredricka Greene Smith, Miami
John Roger Squitero, Coral Gables
Stuart Alan Stanley, Miami
Louis Stinson, Jr., Coral Gables
Jeffrey Allen Tew, Miami
James H. Woodard, Miami
Elliott Noel Zack, North Miami
Mitchell Stuart Zeiger, Palmetto Bay
Twelfth Circuit
Kenneth Scott Charlton, Sarasota
Erik Armand Dahlgaard, Sarasota
Thomas A. Dozier, Sarasota
Michael Loren Foreman, Sarasota
Jonathan Crable Gordon, Sarasota
Donald B. Hadsock, Bradenton
Vasilios William Kaklis, Bradenton
Stephen Henry Kurvin, Sarasota
Kurt Francis Lewis, Sarasota
George Robert McLain, Sarasota
Donald Francis O’Connell, Venice
William O’Neil, III, Longboat Key
James Smiley Parker, Jr., Arcadia
John C. Patterson, Jr., Sarasota
Gregory J. Porges, Bradenton
Norman Vaughan-Birch, Sarasota
Charles Wayman Webb, Sarasota
Thirteenth Circuit
Emmett Abdoney, Brandon
Michael David Annis, Tampa
Stephen Carl Cheeseman, Tampa
Preston O. Cockey, Jr., Tampa
Dennis Gus Diecidue, Tampa
James Stephen Gardner, Tampa
Thomas Nathan Henderson, III, Tampa
Arthenia L. Joyner, Tampa
Russell Stanley Koss, Tampa
James M. Landis, Tampa
Bennie Lazzara, Jr., Tampa
Philip R. Lazzara, Tampa
Perry Alphonza Little, Tampa
Andrew Joseph Mirabole, Tampa
Richard Mott Mitzel, Tampa
Jackson Lane Morris, Tampa
Jeffrey Lee Myers, Tampa
Richard E. Ouellette, Tampa
William Benjamin Plowman, Tampa
Warren Adrian Rachels, Tampa
Stephen H. Reynolds, Tampa
Frank Joseph Rief, III, Tampa
Michael Shea, Tampa
John Dunseith Shofi, Tampa
Alex B. Vecchio, Tampa
William Knight Zewadski, Tampa
Peter Wolfson Zinober, Tampa
Fourteenth Circuit
John Edward Roberts, Marianna
Fifteenth Circuit
Daniel Zachary Averbrook, Boca Raton
Nelson E. Bailey, Loxahatchee
Leslie Howard Berger, Boynton Beach
William Rudolph Boose, III, Palm Beach Gardens
Edward Campbell, Palm Beach Gardens
Louis G. Carres, West Palm Beach
John Thomas Christiansen, West Palm Beach
Michael Bethune Davis, Palm Beach Gardens
Basil S. Diamond, Manalapan
Barry Stuart Fishman, Boca Raton
Steven Robert Gaines, Boca Raton
Gary Edward Garbis, Lake Worth
Wayne Treston Gill, Atlantis
Alfred Holden Haworth, Palm Beach Gardens
Daniel T.K. Hurley, Palm Beach
Harvey Glenn Kopelowitz, Delray Beach
Richard Sam Lehman, Boca Raton
John Melcher Martyn, Jupiter
Franck D. Massey, West Palm Beach
Richard Alfred McClain, West Palm Beach
Marvin Bruce Nodel, Boca Raton
James Iverson Ridley, West Palm Beach
Joel David Robrish, Boca Raton
David Roth, West Palm Beach
Michael John Ryan, North Palm Beach
Gerald Martin Shapiro, Boca Raton
Lawrence Stuart Smith, Delray Beach
Michael Paul Smodish, Lake Worth
Alexander Spitzer, Ocean Ridge
Dean Kenneth Vegosen, West Palm Beach
James Lloyd Watt, Palm Beach Gardens
David Richard Wellens, Palm Beach Gardens
William M. Winkel, West Palm Beach
Brian R. Wright, Jupiter
Sixteenth Circuit
Stephen F. Bacen, Islamorada
Nathan Ellis Eden, Key West
Roland Hollinshead Moore, II, Islamorada
Ronald Ellis Solomon, Key West
Seventeenth Circuit
Paul Ansel, Hollywood
Stanley H. Beck, Hallandale
Alan Steven Becker, Fort Lauderdale
Fred Jay Berman, Fort Lauderdale
James Otto Birr, Jr., Fort Lauderdale
Robert A. Butterworth, Jr., Fort Lauderdale
Bernard Cohen, Hollywood
Robert E. Ferris, Jr., Fort Lauderdale
Libo B. Fineberg, Deerfield Beach
Michael S. Goldberg, Hollywood
David E. Goldman, Fort Lauderdale
Richard Kendall Inglis, Fort Lauderdale
Thomas Lewis Lasalle, Lauderdale by the Sea
Robert Dewitt McIntosh, Fort Lauderdale
William John McPharlin, Fort Lauderdale
Kenneth Russell Mikos, Fort Lauderdale
John Alan Miller, Pembroke Pines
Daniel Patrick J. O’Connor, Fort Lauderdale
Ledford A. Parnell, Jr., Parkland
Neale J. Poller, Fort Lauderdale
Errol Miles Rosen, Weston
Robert Allen Rosenberg, Coral Springs
Stanley Martin Sacks, Coconut Creek
Steven Franklin Squire, Fort Lauderdale
Linda Leslie Vitale, Southwest Ranches
Barry Sidney Webber, Davie
Eighteenth Circuit
John A. Baldwin, Fern Park
Kenneth Mann Beane, Altamonte Springs
Carmine Michael Bravo, Longwood
Clifton Adamson McClelland, Jr., Melbourne
Frank Henry Molica, Merritt Island
John Dean Moxley, Jr., Titusville
Benjamin Yancey Saxon, II, Melbourne
Donald F. Wright, Altamonte Springs
Nineteenth Circuit
Walter Robert Blake, Vero Beach
James L.S. Bowdish, Stuart
Frank Henry Fee, III, Fort Pierce
Guy Charles Hill, Hobe Sound
Clarence Edward Porch, Jr., Stuart
Jerome Dennis Quinn, Vero Beach
Robert Jerry Randolph, Jr., Stuart
Twentieth Circuit
George Angen Brescher, Cape Coral
Stephen Walter Buckley, Fort Myers
Patrick Emmett Geraghty, Fort Myers
William Walter Grace, Jr., Fort Myers
Thomas E. Maloney, Naples
Lawrence Dent Martin, Naples
John Henry Shearer, Jr., Alva
Carl Edward Westman, Naples
James G. Yaeger, Fort Myers
Out of State
Manuel Ralph Angulo, Port Angeles, WA
Fred R. Baisden, Jr., Portland, OR
Stephen Hugh Barber, Hendersonville, NC
Robert Maurice Barnes, II, Kailua, HI
Douglas Devane Batchelor, Jr., Evans, GA
Walter Randolph Beales, III, Boydton, VA
Erwin Randall Beider, Chicago, IL
Joan Anita Berk, Asheville, NC
Charles Howard Bowers, III, Cartersville, GA
Gerald David Brody, San Diego, CA
Bruce Jay Brotman, Chantilly, VA
John Dennis Carlson, Blowing Rock, NC
John Eugene Cicero, II, Bellevue, WA
Flavel Woodrow Coleman, III, Mt. Pleasant, SC
Gerald Franklin Coulston, New York, NY
Robert Phillips Davidow, Ann Arbor, MI
Ralph Joseph De Stefano, Gwynedd, PA
Theodore Arnold Doremus, Jr., Leesburg, VA
Robert Jack Eckert, Laguna Niguel, CA
Don Antonio Fendon, Phoenix, AZ
Jack B. Friedman, Jericho, NY
Maurice M. Garcia, Newbury Park, CA
Paul L. Goldstein, Rochester, NY
Stanley H. Greenberg, Asheville, NC
Clifford Gaylord Hoffman, Dunwoody, GA
Howard Thomas Hogan, Jr., Locust Valley, NY
William George Hollingsworth, Tulsa, OK
Edwin Sharp Hopson, Louisville, KY
Thomas Bishop Hyman, Jr., Atlanta, GA
McArthur Irvin, Atlanta, GA
Timothy Augustin Johnson, Jr., Woodside, CA
Daniel Foster Joy, III, Marietta, GA
Kelly Christian Kammerer, France
Lawrence Howard Katz, Hiawassee, GA
Patrick Gene Kennedy, Cullowhee, NC
Steven James Kyle, Atlanta, GA
Sharon Jolene Larimore, San Dimas, CA
Wayne Harris Lazarus, Atlanta, GA
William Norman Lobel, Costa Mesa, CA
William Raymond Lyle, Jr., Sammamish, WA
Marilu Marshall, New York, NY
John M. Mayer, Jr., Clarksville, IN
William Michael McCreery, Mason City, IL
Perker Lee Meeks, Jr., San Francisco, CA
Edward Paul Meyerson, Birmingham, AL
Thomas Bowman Mimms, Jr., Roswell, GA
Gilbert James Murray, Plattsburgh, NY
David Elliott Olmsted, Hayesville, NC
Jeffrey Inman Pattinson, Homer, AK
Donald Lawrence Pevsner, Vilas, NC
James Edward Phelps, St. Louis, MO
Leon Pomerance, Atlanta, GA
John Douglas Prior, Jr., Fremont, CA
Vincent Rakestraw, Columbus, OH
Gerald Arndt Resnick, New York, NY
Carl Reynolds, Jr., Macon, GA
George William Rohe, Charlotte, NC
Ronald R. Rothstein, Remsenburg, NY
Eric Blain Rudolph, Atlanta, GA
George Peter Sampas, Santa Barbara, CA
John Maurice Samuels, Greenwich, CT
William L. Sax, Boone, NC
Neil Schaffel, Austin, TX
Raymond Reilly Schroeder, Greenville, SC
Stephen John Schultz, San Diego, CA
Gregory Vincent Sharkey, Jackson, NJ
Stephen Leslie Sholomson, Toluca Lake, CA
Gary Randall Smith, Atlanta, GA
Daniel Joel Spiegel, Edina, MN
Ronald Lawrence Tobia, West Orange, NJ
Robert Kenneth Tucker, Greenville, SC
Kenneth Henry Vail, Washington, D.C.
James Lloyd Whitten, Chevy Chase, MO
James L. Yawn, III, Burlingame, CA
Senior Counselors
Kenneth R. Cass, The Villages
Gary I. Handin, Coral Springs
Peter Stanwood Herrick, St. Petersburg
Michael John McGarry, Port Charlotte
Robert V. Parenti, Stuart
Richard Charles Porter, Jr., Louisville, KY
Mark A. Roseman, Hollywood
Charles M. Tatelbaum, Fort Lauderdale
Richard S. Weinstein, Jupiter
