Last Updated:  May 2002

• Florida State University – Associate in Business Law and Real Estate. Author of Cyber-Regulation; Regulatory Reform-A Florida Perspective; Florida’s Quiet Technological Revolution; and Casinos In Florida? - A Look at Indian Gaming.


• Trial Counsel to FSU, Department of Insurance, Department of Motor Vehicles, Department of Children and Families, Department of Health, Department of Corrections and the Commissioner of Agriculture.


• Advisor to FSU Real Estate Society


• Advisor to FSU Garnet and Gold Key National Leadership Honorary


• Favorite Professor – October issue of FSU Times.


• Director of FSU Recreation Board

• The Florida State University (1998-2000) – Business Law and Real Estate.
• Florida Institute of Technology (1989-90) – MBA Program.
• Indian River Community College (1985-1990) – Business Law, Personnel Management.
• Marshall University – (1976) Business Law.

• General Counsel – Legal counsel to eight different administrations of a 2600 employee state agency including 250 law enforcement personnel and directly responsible for the supervision of 100 attorneys and attendant staff regulating all major Florida businesses and professions including but not limited to the following:
  
  
  • Medical Board
  • Dental Board
  • Nursing Board
  • Alcoholic Beverage Industry
  • Tobacco Industry
  • Hotel/Motel Industry
  • Restaurant Industry
  • Land Sales Industry
  • Condominium Industry
  • Mobile Home Industry
  • Pari-Mutuel Industry
  • Cardrooms
  • Board of Architecture and Interior Design
  • Barbers Board
  • Board of Accountancy
  • Construction Industry Licensing Board
  • Board of Cosmetology
  • Electrical Contractors Licensing Board
  • Board of Funeral Directors and Embalmers
  • Board of Talent Agents
  • Board of Landscape Architecture
  • Board of Auctioneers
  • Board of Veterinary Medicine
  • Board of Professional Geologists
  • Real Estate Commission
  • Board of Pilot Commissioners
  • Board of Surveyors and Mappers
  • Asbestos Industry
  • Real Estate Appraisal Board
  • Board of Employee Leasing Companies
  • Building Code Administrators and Inspectors
  • Community Association Managers
  • Yacht and Ship Industry
  • Athlete Agents

• Chief Litigation Attorney – litigation of civil federal and state proceedings including but not limited to administrative enforcement proceedings, personnel matters, contract disputes, bid protests, unemployment compensation hearings and appeals, Title VII and Section 1981 and 1983 actions in state and federal court, proceedings before the Public Employees Relations Commission, the Florida Civil Rights Commission, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and the Division of Administrative Hearings.

• Chief Hearing Officer – presiding officer over departmental informal and formal hearings.

• Chief Attorney for Division of Administration, Contracts and Personnel – counsel to Senior Management and representation of the Department in administrative actions and court proceedings relating to contract procurement, personnel, budgetary, finance, and accounting matters.

• Chief Attorney for Division of Hotels and Restaurants – counsel to the Director of the Division on all matters relating to the regulation of the Hotel, Restaurant, and Apartment Industries as well as all administrative proceedings before the Division of Administrative Hearings and state and federal courts.

• Senior Attorney for Division of Land Sales, Condominiums and Mobile Homes – counsel to Director of the Division on legal matters. Issued Declaratory Statements and represented the Division in all administrative, court and legal proceedings.

• Trial Counsel – Ten years of extensive state and federal criminal and civil jury trial practice.
• Legislative Counsel - Judiciary Committee, Political Subdivisions Committee and Health and Welfare Committee.
• Assistant State Attorney - Jury trials of capital, murder, felony and misdemeanor crimes and representation of County Commission.
• Special Assistant Attorney General.

• Outstanding Combat Support Award.
• Army Commendation Medal.

• West Virginia University, Doctorate of Jurisprudence.
• Marshall University, Political Science and History, B.A.

• Teen Court Judge
• Pro Bono  civil representation.
• Church Youth Group Leader.