Board of Governors nominating petitions are due December 16
Nominating petitions for the 2025 election for The Florida Bar Board of Governors must be received in The Florida Bar headquarters office on or before 5 p.m., EST, December 16. All of the Board positions are for two-year terms.
Executive Director Joshua E. Doyle on October 4 certified to John A. Tomasino, Clerk of the Florida 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 (see links below).
Election ballots will be emailed or mailed on or before March 1, and voted ballots must be received prior to midnight (EST), March 17.
Board of Governors Nominating Petition
Board of Governors Nominating Petition, Out-of-State
Present Board of Governors members whose terms are expiring June 27, 2025, include:
David W. Grimes, Second Circuit, Seat 1, elected in 2023
Braxton Gillam IV, Fourth Circuit, Seat 2, elected in 2020
Gordon J. Glover, Fifth Circuit, Seat 1, elected in 2021
Sandra Fascell Diamond, Sixth Circuit, Seat 2, elected in 2011
Stephanie M. Marchman, Eighth Circuit, Seat 1, elected in 2017
Diego “Woody” Rodriguez, Ninth Circuit, Seat 2, elected in 2023
Nikki L. Simon, Eleventh Circuit, Seat 2, elected in 2019
Jorge L. Piedra, Eleventh Circuit, Seat 4, elected in 2019
Leslie B. Rothenberg, Eleventh Circuit, Seat 6, elected in 2021
Sabrina Vora-Puglisi, Eleventh Circuit, Seat 8, elected in 2023
Jesse R. Butler, Twelfth Circuit, Seat 1, elected in 2022
*Amy S. Farrior, Thirteenth Circuit, Seat 2, elected in 2017
*J. Carter Andersen, Thirteenth Circuit, Seat 3, elected in 2019
Manuel Farach, Fifteenth Circuit, Seat 2, elected in 2023
Michal J. Gelfand, Fifteenth Circuit, Seat 4, elected in 2021
*Wayne LaRue Smith, Sixteenth Circuit, Seat 1, elected in 2015
Brian H. Koch, Seventeenth Circuit, Seat 2, elected in 2023
Lorna E. Brown-Burton, Seventeenth Circuit, Seat 3, elected in 2012
*Adam G. Rabinowitz, Seventeenth Circuit, Seat 5, elected in 2013
Gregory S. Weiss, Nineteenth Circuit, Seat 1, elected in 2018
Duffy Myrtetus, Out-of-State, Seat 1, elected in 2015
Eric L. Meeks, Out-of-State, Seat 3, elected in 2007
* Does not intend to seek reelection.
Nominating petitions must be completed and received in The Florida Bar headquarters office on or before 5 p.m., EST, December 16. They may be submitted via email or U.S. Mail to Joshua E. Doyle, Executive Director, The Florida Bar, 651 East Jefferson Street, Tallahassee, Florida 32399-2300.
