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The Florida Bar President's Pro Bono Service Awards Past Recipients

1980's / 1990's / 2000

1982
Ralph Artigliere, Lakeland
Kenneth S. Beall, Jr., Palm Beach
Russell E. Carlisle, Ft. Lauderdale
William M. Chanfrau, Daytona Beach
Leon Blakely Cheek, III, Altamonte Springs
Irwin A. Connelly, Bunnell
C. Andrew Coomes, Orlando
Lyman T. Fletcher, Jacksonville
Clara Floyd Gehan, Gainesville
Judith A. Ginn, Wildwood
Baya Harrison, III, Tallahassee
Mayo C. Johnston, Panama City
Ira J. Kurzban, Miami
Michael S. Moreland, Ft. Myers
Michael F. Novilla, St. Petersburg
Stephan J. Ross, Tampa
Richard J. Saliba, Ft. Pierce

1983
Harvey M. Alper, Altamonte Springs
Ben F. Barnes, Marianna
William B. Barnett, Orlando
Neil Chonin, Coral Gables
Julian E. Collins, Lake City
Linda A. Conahan, Ft. Lauderdale
Burton C. Conner, Okeechobee
Whitney Hugh Cotney, Jacksonville
Joseph C. Fuller, Ft. Myers
Harry A. Johnston, II, West Palm Beach
Jacalyn N. Kolk, Tampa
Philip J. Padovano, Tallahassee
Shon Saxon, Gainesville
W. Denis Shelley, Daytona Beach
James Vanderplas, Indian Rocks Beach
Robert A. Young, Bartow

1984
Jon H. Anderson, Lakeland
Robert S. Appleton, Marathon
William R. Clifton, Cocoa
Cecil L. Davis, Jr., Tallahassee
Kenneth S. Davis, Gainesville
Ralph R. Fernandez, Tampa
Donald T. Franke, Naples
Samuel R. Hillman, Clearwater
Walton B. Hunter, Tavares
Thorwald John Husfeld, Deland
Milton Kelner, Miami
Robert Gordon Kerrigan, Pensacola
Carroll L. McCauley, Panama City
Hugh T. Maloney, Ft. Lauderdale
Richard J.R. Parkinson, Orlando
Jack Scarola, West Palm Beach
William J. Sheppard, Jacksonville

1985
Terrence William Ackert, Orlando
Joan H. Bickerstaff, Melbourne
Michael L. Bryant, Gainesville
Henry M. Coxe, III, Jacksonville
Michael Dubiner, West Palm Beach
Jose A. Garrido, Jr., Miami
John C. Guerriero, Ft. Pierce
James W. Kynes, Tampa
Susan Sheppard Lazier, Key West
Walter W. Manley, II, Lakeland
David Paul Montgomery, Bradenton
Cathi C. O’Halloran, Tallahassee
John M. Passidomo, Naples
Ronald G. Thornton, Port Richey
John Dirffie Tyler, Daytona Beach
R. John Westberry, Pensacola
William J. Zloch, Ft. Lauderdale

1986
Samuel Thomas Adams, Panama City
Ronald V. Alvarez, West Palm Beach
Marvin W. Bingham, Jr., Gainesville
Jack T. Edmund, Bartow
Sally Harris Foote, Clearwater
Sandra T. Fowler, Key West
Kenneth R. Hart, Tallahassee
Harry M. Hipler, Dania
H. Randolph Klein, Ocala
Richard C. Milstein, Coral Gables
Samuel J. Morley, Pensacola
John G. Pare, Tampa
John C. Patterson, Jr., Sarasota
Gerald S. Rutberg, Casselberry
Kimberly Sands, Daytona Beach
Stephen D. Thompson, Ft. Myers
Louis B. Vocelle, Jr., Vero Beach
Waddell A. Wallace, II, Jacksonville
Michael R. Walsh, Orlando

1987
Terrence William Ackert, Orlando
William H. Andrews, Jacksonville
Dan Phillip Brawley, Lakeland
Rowlett W. Bryant, Panama City
Charles J. Cino, Daytona Beach
Patrick G. Emmanuel, Pensacola
Thomas Kenwood Equels, Miami
Bobbie Lee Eubank, Gainesville
Saxton R. Gaskin, III, Clearwater
Julian Hanley, Naples
Stephen P. Hoskins, Ft. Pierce
Alice R. Huneycutt, Tampa
William H. Kilby, Ft. Lauderdale
Gregory C. Meissner, Bradenton
Steven L. Seliger, Quincy
Charles R. Stepter, Jr., Orlando
Michael A. Viscomi, West Palm Beach

1988
Robert Appleget, Jr., Ocala
Rosemary Armstrong, Tampa
Jean G. Booher, Ft. Lauderdale
Joseph G. Bywater, Lakeland
John B. Carr, Pensacola
Clyde M. Collins, Jr., Jacksonville
Meredith Craig, St. Petersburg
Donald N. Crowell, Orlando
Thomas E. Cushman, St. Augustine
John P. Fleck, Jr., Bradenton
Crisse Bates Foster, Palm Bay
Kathleen C. Fox, Gainesville
William A. Lewis, Panama City
John Bolling Powell, IV, West Palm Beach
Maurice Rosen, North Miami Beach
Robert A. Sandow, Live Oak
Joan Stewart, Tallahassee
David C. Weigel, Naples
Carol Ann Wolf, Tavernier

1989
Herbert L. Allen, Orlando
Sandra G. Atkins, Panama City
Robert B. Bennett, Jr., Sarasota
Barbara A. Burkett, Gainesville
Pamela D. Cichon, Daytona Beach
William G. Crawford, Jr., Hollywood
Marlin M. Feagle, Lake City
G. Tiny Geiger, Tampa
Charlotte I. Hunter, Ocala
Jeffrey M. Kirsch, Stuart
David J. Lillesand, Miami
Julie Osterhout, Cape Coral
Robert E. Pyle, Winter Haven
Kenneth S. Rappaport, Boca Raton
Louis F. Ray, Jr., Pensacola
Richard M. Smith, Tallahassee
Robert E. Warren, Jacksonville
Thomas E. Whigham, Sanford
Douglas M. Williamson, St. Petersburg

1990
Martin G. Brooks, Hollywood
Pamela A. Brown, Deland
Patrick D. Doherty, Clearwater
Patrick J. Faucheux, Panama City
Ricardo A. Fernandez, Tampa
Gwendolyn E. Gibson, Jacksonville
James K. Green, West Palm Beach
Pierce J. Guard, Jr., Lakeland
Douglas M. Halsey, Miami
Charles E. Heim, Jr., Indian Harbour Beach
Norman L. Hull, Orlando
Michael W. Johnson, Ocala
Martha Ann Lott, Gainesville
Pamela S. Mac’Kie, Naples
Donald F. O’Connell, Venice
Karen L. Oehme, Tallahassee
Timothy M. Ryan, Dania
Evett L. Simmons, Port St. Lucie
Daniel M. Soloway, Pensacola
Joseph B. Wolkowsky, Tavernier

1991
Eddie M. Anderson, Lake City
Mitzi Cockrell Austin, Gainesville
Vanda Y. Bayliss, Sarasota
M. Robert Blanchard, Pensacola
Sara Blumberg, Boynton Beach
M. Thomas Bond, Jr., Ocala
Timothy C. Campbell, Panama City
Samuel G. Crosby, Lakeland
V. James Dickson, St. Petersburg
Theresa Bland Edwards, Ft. Lauderdale
Donald A. Gifford, Tampa
Diego Handel, Ormond Beach
William T. Huggett, Miami
Sally Dee Millward Kest, Orlando
Wayne R. McDonough, Vero Beach
John M. Passidomo, Naples
George “Buddy” E. Schulz, Jr., Jacksonville
Steven P. Shea, Marathon
William E. Sizemore, Tampa
William M. Stern, Maitland
David G. Tucker, Tallahassee

1992
Janice F. Bessinger, Lake City
Ronald I. Cole, Ocala
Richard J. D’Amico, Ormond Beach
Karen A. Gievers, Miami
Pierce J. Guard, Jr., Lakeland
Ralph V. “Terry” Hadley, III, Winter Park
Randall W. Hanna, Tallahassee
Jeffrey A. King , Sarasota
Karen B. Lopez, St. Petersburg
Linda W. McIntyre, Coral Springs
Roger N. Messer, Port St. Lucie
David W. Palmer, Destin
Marina Stevens Roach, Naples
Robert M. W. Shalhoub, West Palm Beach
F. Emory Springfield, Gainesville
Edward L. Stahley, Merritt Island
William A. Van Nortwick, Jr., Jacksonville
William G. Warner, Panama City
John W. Wilcox, Tampa

1993
Michael A. Bedke, Tampa
Charlotte E. Brayer, Tallahassee
Matthew J. Comisky, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Richard D. Custureri, Ocala
John Fletcher Daniel, Panama City
William E. Evans, Bartow
Linnes Finney, Jr., Fort Pierce
William S. Graessle, Jacksonville
David B. Haber, Coral Gables
Michael Halpern, Key West
Jane Kreusler-Walsh, West Palm Beach
Michael L. O’Neill, Daytona Beach
George T. Paulk, II, Cocoa Beach
James M. Russ, Orlando
Robert P. Scheb, Sarasota
Jeanne M. Singer, Gainesville
James D. Swearingen, Pensacola
Allan H. Terl, Ft. Lauderdale
Craig C. Villante, New Port Richey
Robert D. Young, North Ft. Myers

1994
J. Nickolas Alexander, Jr., Orange Park
Brian P. Battaglia, St. Petersburg
Jerri A. Blair, Tavares
Edwin M. Boyer, Sarasota
Kathryn E. Errington, Pensacola
Nancy Gregoire, Ft. Lauderdale
Charlene G. Guller, Key West
Christine P. Hissam, Naples
Frederick L. Koberlein, Lake City
Clark D. Lochridge, Fern Park
Alexander C. MacKinnon, Orlando
Ellen S. Masters, Bartow
Elizabeth M. Schwabedissen, Miami
Robert A. Shimberg, Tampa
Anne Talbot, Washington, D.C.
Joseph Tomberg, Wabasso
Robert L. Travis, Jr., Quincy
Frank D. Upchurch, III, St. Augustine
Terence J. Watterson, Palm Beach Gardens
Jeffrey P. Whitton, Panama City
E.A.W. “Pan” Zettler, Williston

1995
J. Victor Africano, Live Oak
Thomas P. Bell, Pembroke Pines
Joye M. Clayton, Gainesville
Jane L. Cornett, Stuart
Caroline C. Emery, Jacksonville
Jonathan E. Hausburg, Sarasota
Harley Herman, Leesburg
David B. Kundin, Tallahassee
Warren T. LaFray, Clearwater
Alan I. Mishael, Miami
Carol C. Murphy, Lakeland
Harold D. Oehler, Tampa
Julie L. Ozburn, Holly Hill
Christopher N. Patterson, Panama City
Melinda P. Riddle, Naples
Louis K. Rosenbloum, Pensacola
Siobhan Helene Shea, Palm Beach
Tegan Slaton, Key West
Pearl Crosby Smith, Cocoa
William David Wallace, Washington, D.C.
Dorothea Watson, Orlando

1996
Louis C. Cianfrogna, Titusville
Graham Clarke, Panama City
Ivan K. Clements, Jr., Deland
Cynthia L. Cox, Vero Beach
Robert F. Dallas, Atlanta, Georgia
Jessica C. Dumas, Jacksonville
Sara Vermelle Fielding, Lakeland
Josephine Gagliardi, Ft. Myers
Cary A. Hardee, II, Madison
William C. Henry, Bradenton
John A. Jabro, Key Largo
Charles D. Jamieson, West Palm Beach
Richard T. Jones, Gainesville
John Marshall Kest, Orlando
Nancy Moate Ley, Clearwater
William Douglas Marsh, Pensacola
Robert A. Mick, Tallahassee
Richard C. Milstein, Miami
David T. Price, Deerfield Beach
Gilbert M. Singer, Tampa
Carol Ann Volini, Ocala

1997
Leonard A. Barrow, Jr., Melbourne
Bruce B. Blackwell, Orlando
Barbara A. Burns, Chicago, Illinois
Raymond F. Brady, Gainesville
Susan L. Chapman, Sarasota
Stephen H. Echsner, Pensacola
Joseph P. George, Jr., Key West
Alice Julia Graves, Vero Beach
Frank A. Kreidler, Lake Worth
Henry Latimer, Ft. Lauderdale
Dominic C. MacKenzie, Jacksonville
Teresa B. Morgan, Lake City
Kimberlee Ann Nagel, Lakeland
Stewart O. Olson, St. Petersburg
Abigail Price-Williams, Miami
Warren R. Ross, Punta Gorda
Lou Tally, Mount Dora
Cerese C. Taylor, Tampa
Timothy M. Warner, Panama City
Sarah H. White, Daytona Beach (posthumously)
Harriet W. Williams, Tallahassee

1998
Jodi M. Anderson, Tavares
Gypsy Bailey, Tallahassee
Charles Bennett Bollinger, III, Panama City
Jill Jacob Burzynski, Naples
A. Thomas Connick, Jr., Deerfield Beach
Mary Alice Ferrell, Sarasota
Frank M. Gafford, Lake City
Robert J. Gorman, Ft. Pierce
Lynne Hankins-Fielder, Key West
Kelly B. Hardwick, III, Bartow
Norberto S. Katz, Orlando
Joseph D. Lorenz, Ft. Walton Beach
Margaret D. Mathews, Tampa
Joseph Clay Meux, Sr., Jacksonville
Roger W. Plata, St. Petersburg
Robert Rivas, Boca Raton
Phyllis M. Rosier, Starke
Vance E. Salter, Miami
Dwight W. Severs, Titusville
Michael B. Wingo, Daytona Beach
Howard J. Wunderlich, East Islip, New York

1999
Calvin J. Allen, Key West
Robert L. Appleget, Jr., Ocala
Terry L. Bledsoe, Altamonte Springs
James A. Conway, Stuart
George T. Dunlap, III, Bartow
Ross M. Goodman, Pensacola
Lloyd C. Hawthorne, Live Oak
A. Margaret Hesford, Lauderdale Lakes
David A. King, Orange Park
Elizabeth R. Mannion, Clearwater
Sidney L. Matthew, Tallahassee
Catherine G. Novack, Tampa
Marilyn (Wolf) Peterson, Gainesville
Lawrence J. Phalin, Orlando
Stephen R. Ponder, Daytona Beach
Bonnie K. Roberts, Bonifay
Richard Simring, Miami
Kurt A. Streyffeler, Ft. Myers
Stanley R. Swartz, Bradenton
Gary A. Woodfield, Palm Beach

2000
Anne V. Gallagher Alper, Ft. Lauderdale
Deborah J. Andrews, Ponte Vedra Beach
Joy Anne Bartmon, Boca Raton
Conrad “Sonny” Bishop, III, Perry
Mikele Stander Carter, Blairsville, Georgia
Russell Lyle Cheatham, III, St. Petersburg
John Richard Cook, Okeechobee
John David Dumbaugh, Sarasota
Susan Whaley Fox, Tampa
Amy Ellen Goodblatt, Orlando
Alexander John Gordon, Punta Gorda
Larry D. Hardaway, Lakeland
Bruce Edward Hoffman, Gainesville
Samuel S. Jacobson, Jacksonville
M. Catherine Lannon, Tallahassee
Patrick M. Magill, Orlando
Joel Margules, Panama City
John W. Merting, Pensacola
Keith Marshall Schenck, Inverness
Holly R. Skolnick, Miami
Joseph J. Vetrick, Key Largo

2001
Bryan Lee Albers, St. Petersburg
Nina N. Ashenafi, Tallahassee
Michael S. Becker, Daytona Beach
Mark A. Bednar, Pensacola
Jeffry J. Branham, Orlando
Thomas W. Brown, Lake City
J. Kevin Carey, Tampa
Lawrence G. Chadband, Lakeland
Mary Day Coker, Gainesville
Billy-Joe Hoot Crawford, Panama City
Josephine Gagliardi, Ft. Myers
Peter T. Gianino, Stuart
Marvin C. Gutter, Fort Lauderdale
Edward P. Jackson, Jacksonville
Gerald I. Kornreich, Miami
John E. Moxley, Ocala
William O’Neil, III, Longboat Key
Adam D. Palmer, Boca Raton
Julie Glocker Pierce, Melbourne
Helen Sundgren, Naples
Richard E. Warner, Marathon

2002
N. Albert Bacharach, Jr., Gainesville
Thomas R. Bakkedahl, Ft. Pierce
Robert T. Bergin, Jr., West Palm Beach
John T. David, Ft. Lauderdale
Celia Ellen Deifik, Naples
Jerry W. Gerde, Panama City
John M. Keller, Brooksville
David P. Kirwan, Marathon
Alex D. Littlefield, Jr., Tallahassee
Merette L. Oweis, Lakeland
James J. Partlow, Sanford
Robert L. Peters, Jr., Fernandina Beach
Richard Barton Ray, Bradenton
Patricia A. Redmond, Miami
James C. Runyon, St. Petersburg
Hala A. Sandridge, Tampa
Thomas E. Stone, Madison
Maurice Wagner, Deltona
G. Charles Wohlust, Winter Park

2003
Catherine Ackerman, Ocala
Sherri L. Allan, Panama City
Susan L. Barber, Lake Wales
Paul R. Berg, Vero Beach
Susan H. Bingham, St. Petersburg
Kathleen McCarthy Bishop, Perry
F. Blane Carneal, Ft. Lauderdale
Bruce R. Conroy, Tallahassee
Susan A. Fagan, Daytona Beach
Daniel P. Faherty, Cocoa
Richard J. Fowler, Key West
Gary L. Kornfeld, West Palm Beach
Richard A. Leigh, Winter Park
Christopher A. Likens, Sarasota
Katherine Bliss Para, Jacksonville
Sharon W. Potter, Pensacola
James R. Stokes, Pensacola
Cynthia Stump Swanson, Gainesville
Jacqueline Marie Valdespino, Miami
Gwynne A. Young, Tampa

2004
Chris Ballentine -- Orlando
David Bentley -- Washington, D.C.
John J. Cassidy, Jr. -- Naples
Robert S. Cohen -- Tallahassee
Irwin Connelly -- Bunnell
Walter Green -- Gainesville
Nancy W. Gregoire -- Fort Lauderdale
Michael Guttmann -- Pensacola
Jack Helinger- - St. Petersburg
Allen N. Jelks, Jr. -- Panama City
Robert C. Meyer -- Miami
Guy W. Norris -- Lake City
Joseph N. Nusbaum -- Boca Raton
Paulette Pace -- Bradenton
Richard Perry -- Ocala
Alan Pickert -- Jacksonville
Christine E. Puto-Murray -- Marathon
Portia B. Scott -- Stuart
Sheryl Snodgrass -- Lakeland
Edward M. Waller, Jr. – Tampa


2005
Matthew P. Coglianese, Miami
D. Patrick Dalton, Ocala
Martin R. Dix, Tallahassee
Joanne Fanizza, Ft. Lauderdale
William R. Garrett, Panama City
Diego Handel, Daytona Beach
Beth Harlan, Lakeland
Nancy C. Holliday-Fields, Lake City
Deborah M. Hooker, Okeechobee
Richard A. Horder, Atlanta, Georgia
Joseph S. “Joe” Jackson, Gainesville
Aileen N. Josephs, West Palm Beach
Jacqulyn Mack, Englewood
James M. Magee, Orlando
Kathleen S. McLeroy, Tampa
Michael I. Miller, Sanibel
Steven E. Quinnell, Pensacola
Chad S. Roberts, Jacksonville
Kenneth F. Tworoger, Micco
James M. “Van” Vanderplas, Indian Rocks Beach
Linda B. Wheeler, Key West

2006
Gwendolyn P. Adkins, Tallahassee
Matthew G. Brenner, Orlando
P. Ause Brown Jr., Gainesville
Brian J. Connelly, Vero Beach
Thomas G. Freeman, Jr., Altamonte Springs
John J. Kendron, Lake City
John W. Kozyak, Coral Gables
Janeice T. Martin, Naples
John S. Mills, Jacksonville
Larry D. Murrell, Jr., West Palm Beach
Bryant M. Richardson, Washington, D.C.
Douglas J. Sale, Panama City
Charles H. Scruggs, III, Tampa
Stephen R. Senn, Lakeland
Michael J. Stebbins, Pensacola
Mary B. Steddom, Ocala
Julia A. Soerpeboel, Palm Coast
Joseph F. Summonte, Jr., Sarasota
Howard M. Talenfeld, Parkland
Elise K. Winters, Clearwater

2007
Margaret M. Anderson, Vero Beach
Rita C. Chansen, Ft. Myers
Robert Cintron, Key West
Philip Henry Elliott, Jr., Daytona Beach
Wendy Pamela Fischman, Rockville, Maryland
Walter Eugene Forehand, Tallahassee
Kelly B. Hardwick, III, Bartow
Nancy Carol Holliday-Fields, Lake City
Thomas Murray Jenks, Jacksonville
Marian Audrey Lindquist, Ft. Lauderdale
Frank Edward Maloney, Jr., Macclenny
William Leonard Penrose, St. Petersburg
Michael Robert Reiter, Lynn Haven
Elisha D. Roy, Palm Beach Gardens
Neil William Scott, Sarasota
Lawrence Dean Silverman, Miami
Deborah M. Smith, Rockledge
Susan Voight Stucker, Apopka
Rollin Eric Tomberlin, Ocala
Arthur Richard Troell, III, Crestview
Sylvia H. Walbolt, Tampa

2008
Debra Trevlyn Alexander, St. Augustine
Carlotta Appleman-Moniz, Panama City
Danelle Dykes Barksdale, Tampa
Morgan Ray Bentley, Sarasota
Dionne Maria Blaesing, New Port Richey
Ross Benjamin Bricker, Chicago, Illinois
Suzanne Smith Brownless, Tallahassee
Theodore Mark Burt, Trenton
Russell E. Carlisle, Ft. Lauderdale
Melanie Emmons Damian, Miami
Patricia Ann Eables, Key West
James D. Francis, Jacksonville
Robert Eugene Fridley, Gainesville
Gary Randal Gossett, Jr., Sebring
John Richard Hamilton, Orlando
Amy Christine Hamlin, Longwood
Julie Hope Littky-Rubin, West Palm Beach
William Jemison Mims, Jr., Pensacola
Ginger Allison Miranda, Ft. Pierce
Jack Arthur Moring, Crystal River
Melinda Paniagua Riddle, Naples

2009
Todd Clifford Brister, Panama City
Melanie Freeman Chase, Lake Mary
Judith Duggan Davidson, Bunnell
Jean M. Finks, Punta Gorda
Thomas Carlton Gano, West Palm Beach
George Michael Germann, Spring Hill
Shari Thieman Greene, Gulf Breeze
Harry Charles Greenfield, Merritt Island
Mark Edward Hill, Vero Beach
Robert C. Josefsberg, Miami
Albert Lewis Kelley, Key West
John Justin Kendron, Lake City
Heidi Davis Knapik, Fort Lauderdale
James Anthony Kowalski, Jr., Jacksonville
Stanley Morris Krawetz, Sarasota
William James Lobb, Bartow
Shannon McKenzie Miller, Gainesville
Gregory Keith Showers, Clearwater
Twyla Lawrene Sketchley, Tallahassee
Scott Alan Stichter, Tampa
Susan Voight Stucker, Orlando
Michael J. Willis, Kalamazoo, Michigan

[Revised: 08-31-2010 ]