Board of Governors nominating petitions are due December 15
Nominating petitions for the 2015 election for the Board of Governors of The Florida Bar must be received in the headquarters office on or before 5 p.m., December 15. All of the board positions are for two-year terms.
Executive Director John F. Harkness, Jr., on October 1 certified to John A. Tomasino, clerk of the Supreme Court, the number of members of The Florida Bar in good standing in each of Florida’s 20 judicial circuits and outside the State of Florida, and the number of circuit representatives based on the apportionment formula set forth in Rule 2-3.3, Rules Regulating The Florida Bar.
Pursuant to Rule 2-3.4(b), incumbent board members must advise the executive director of their intention to seek reelection to a new term. The board members who do not plan to run again are indicated by an asterisk next to their names.
Nominating petitions for the Board of Governors must be signed by no fewer than five members in good standing whose official Bar address is in the same judicial circuit (or out-of-state, if applicable) as the nominee.
Election ballots will be mailed on or before March 1, and voted ballots must be received prior to midnight EST, March 23.
Present Board of Governors members whose terms are expiring on June 26, include:
Current Member
Lawrence E. Sellers, Jr., Second Circuit, Seat 1, Yr. Elected 2003
Michael G. Tanner, Fourth Circuit, Seat 2, Yr. Elected 2011
Renée E. Thompson, Fifth Circuit, Seat 1, Yr. Elected 2013
Sandra Fascell Diamond, Sixth Circuit, Seat 2, Yr. Elected 2011
Carl B. Schwait, Eighth Circuit, Seat 1, Yr. Elected 2005
Paul L. SanGiovanni, Ninth Circuit, Seat 2, Yr. Elected 2011
Dori Foster-Morales, 11th Circuit, Seat 2, Yr. Elected 2008
Michael J. Higer, 11th Circuit, Seat 4, Yr. Elected 2008
Steven W. Davis, 11th Circuit, Seat 6, Yr. Elected 2013
F. Scott Westheimer, 12th Circuit, Seat 1, Yr. Elected 2013
Lansing C. Scriven, 13th Circuit, Seat 2, Yr. Elected 2009
Margaret Diane Mathews, 13th Circuit, Seat 3, Yr. Elected 2011
Ronald P. Ponzoli, Jr., 15th Circuit, Seat 2, Yr. Elected 2013
Gary S. Lesser, 15th Circuit, Seat 4, Yr. Elected 2011
*Timothy J. Koenig, 16th Circuit, Seat 1, Yr. Elected 2013
Diana Santa Maria, 17th Circuit, Seat 2, Yr. Elected 2013
Lorna E. Brown-Burton, 17th Circuit, Seat 3, Yr. Elected 2012
Adam G. Rabinowitz, 17th Circuit, Seat 5, Yr. Elected 2013
John M. Stewart, 19th Circuit, Seat 1, Yr. Elected 2007
Marcy Lynn Shaw, 20th Circuit, Seat 2, Yr. Elected 2012
*Richard A. Tanner, Out-of-State Seat 1, Yr. Elected 1997
Eric L. Meeks, Out-of-State Seat 3, Yr. Elected 2007
*Does not intend to seek reelection
