Tim Chinaris elected president of the Florida Supreme Court Historical Society
Newly elected officers of the Florida Supreme Court Historical Society Kim Berman, from the left, Scott Rost, Tim Chinaris, Fred Karlinsky, and Bill Schifino, Jr. Not pictured is Kara Rockenbach-Link.
The Florida Supreme Court Historical Society’s Board of Trustees elected law professor Timothy P. Chinaris of Rockledge president.
The FSCHS also installed other Florida Bar members as leaders and trustees at its annual business meeting during The Florida Bar Annual Convention in Boca Raton.
Chinaris has served on the Historical Society’s board since 2013. He teaches courses in legal ethics, torts, insurance law, and other subjects at Belmont University College of Law in Nashville, Tennessee. He was The Florida Bar’s ethics counsel from 1989-1997 and now consults with and represents lawyers and others on a wide variety of professional responsibility issues, including lawyer advertising and Bar admission matters, through Chinaris Law. His interest in history is broad, and he is also a director for the World War One Historical Society and a member of the Theodore Roosevelt Association National Advisory Board.
Other officers and executive committee members include:
- First Vice President: Fred Karlinsky, Greenberg Traurig, Ft. Lauderdale
- Second Vice President: Kara Rockenbach-Link, Link & Rockenbach, West Palm Beach
- Secretary: Kimberly Berman, Marshall Dennehey, Ft. Lauderdale
- Treasurer: William Schifino, Jr., Gunster, Tampa
Immediate Past President: Scott Rost, Brennan, Manna & Diamond, Orlando
Executive Committee members-at-large include newly-elected Judge Gary Flower of the Fourth Circuit in Jacksonville, and these Trustees who serve in addition to the elected officers include:
- Mary E. Adkins, UF Fredric G. Levin College of Law, Gainesville
- Howard C. Coker, Coker Law, Jacksonville
- Hank Coxe, Bedell, Dittmar, DeVault, Pillans & Coxe, Jacksonville
- Leonard Gilbert, Holland & Knight, Tampa
- Alan G. Greer, Miami
- Edward G. Guedes, Weiss, Serota, Helfman, et al., Coral Gables
- Edith G. Osman, Carlton Fields, Miami
- Daryl D. Parks, Parks Law, Tallahassee
New society trustees elected for three-year terms are:
- Kimberly Carlton Bonner, Retired, Mabry Carlton Ranch, Arcadia
- Steven Brannock, Brannock Berman & Seider, Tampa
- Stephen Eschner, Aylstock Witkin Kreis & Overholtz, Pensacola
- Gary Lesser, Lesser, Lesser, Landy & Smith, West Palm Beach
- Judge Stephanie Moon, 17th Judicial Circuit, Ft. Lauderdale
- Jesse Panuccio, Boies, Schiller Flexner, Ft. Lauderdale
- Stephen Rosenthal, Podhurst Orseck, Miami
In addition, former Justice Alan Lawson of Lawson Huck Gonzalez in Tallahassee is a new honorary trustee.
The mission of the Florida Supreme Court Historical Society is to preserve the history of Florida’s highest court and educate the public about the courts’ vital role in protecting personal rights and freedoms. The Historical Society supports education and outreach programs, publishes books chronicling the history of the Florida Supreme Court and the award-winning Historical Review magazine, and facilitates collecting and archiving historical documents and artifacts.
