Hon. Robin Rosenbaum, United States District Judge for the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida, was unanimously confirmed to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit.
1992 Rear Admiral Charles D. Michel
was promoted to Vice Admiral and will serve as the next U.S. Coast Guard’s Deputy Commandant of Operations. Rekha Nori, partner with Lahiri & Nori, Esqs., was appointed to the Supreme Court, Appellate Division,Third Judicial Department, Committees on Character and Fitness. Yvette Ostolaza, managing partner of Sidley Austin’s Dallas office and co-global coordinator of its Complex Commercial Litigation practice, has been elected to membership in the Fellows of the Texas Bar Foundation. Rear Admiral Steven D. Poulin has been selected to be the U.S. Coast Guard’s next Judge Advocate General and Chief Counsel. Lucilo Ramos, Jr. joined Avila Rodriguez Mena & Ferri LLP in Coral Gables as senior counsel.
1993 Charles Edward Cartwright, partner
with Gonzalez & Cartwright, P.A. in Lake Worth, has been certified as a member of The Million Dollar Advocates Forum. The investiture of the Hon. Margret Kerr took place on September 2013. She is currently with the Office of Judges of Compensation Claims in Miami. Mayra Peña Lindsay, Councilwoman for the Village of Key Biscayne, was selected as a member of the 2014 Leaders of Excellence program, part of the Good Government Initiative at the University of Miami. Laura C. Templer has joined the Mortgage Litigation Group of Sirote & Permutt in the Ft. Lauderdale office.
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Daniel Alter is a shareholder in the Ft.
Lauderdale office of GrayRobinson whose practice covers the full range of employee benefits litigation. Brian H. Bieber has joined GrayRobinson in Miami as a shareholder. Larry Blair, attorney at Greenspoon Marder, and his wife, Michele, received the Rales Humanitarian of theYear Award at the Ruth Rales Jewish Family Service’s 2013 annual gala. Mara S. Bloom, Executive Director for the Cancer Center at Massachusetts General Hospital, was presented with the distinguished service award given by the National
Comprehensive Cancer Network for her work in the cancer field. Elise Scheck Bonwitt, of counsel with Higer Lichter & Givner LLP in Aventura, recently announced her membership in Mediation.com. Luca Bronzi joined the Miami office of Broad and Cassel as Senior Counsel in the Commercial Litigation and Health Practice Groups. Michelle Diffenderfer, shareholder of Lewis, Longman & Walker, has been nominated for the Executive Women of the Palm Beaches’ Women in Leadership Award. Ury Fischer, of Lott & Fischer, was selected by his peers for inclusion in the Best Lawyers in America 2014 in the field of Technology Law, Litigation. Shari Gerson is a shareholder in GrayRobinson’s Ft. Lauderdale office. She practices Managed Health Care Law, including medical malpractice cases brought against managed care organizations. Nicole H. Jackson joined the law firm of Lesser, Lesser, Landy & Smith, PLLC, as an associate. Benjamin W. Newman, shareholder in GrayRobinson’s Orlando office, was presented the 2013 Chairman’s Award by the Board of Directors of the Foundation for Seminole State College of Florida. Ian M. Sirota relocated from southern New Jersey to the Daytona Beach area, and now practices with the firm of Smith Hood Bigman.
1995 Angelika Hunnefeld, a shareholder in
the Miami office of Greenberg Traurig, has been elected to the Board of Trustees of the Patricia and Phillip Frost Museum of Science. Kevin Levy, a shareholder in the Miami office of Gunster, has been named chair of the legal track for eMerge Americas, a largescale technology conference. He has also been reappointed to the Greater Miami Chamber of Commerce’s Executive Committee.
1996 Joseph Hernandez has been named
head of the Real Estate Practice Group for the firm Weiss Serota Helfman Pastoriza Cole & Boniske. Thomas T. Nguyen, Academic Chairperson at Miami Dade College West, graduated from Florida Atlantic University with a Ph.D. in Higher Education Leadership. Marlene Quintana, a shareholder at GrayRobinson P.A., was one of the recipients of the National Diversity Council’s 2014 Florida Most Powerful & Influential Woman Award.
1997
Katherine Amador, partner at Berger
Singerman, has been named to the Board of Directors of the Latin Builders Association. J. Allison Archbold has been named a shareholder at Fergeson, Skipper, Shaw, Keyser, Baron & Tirabassi PA in Sarasota, Florida.
1998
Brett M. Amron, a founding member and
co-managing partner of the Miami law firm Bast Amron LLP, has been selected as a Fellow of the Litigation Counsel of America. Sheldon Blumling has been named the new Chair of the Employee Benefits Practice Group at Fisher & Phillips in Irvine, California. Sean M. Cleary, owner of the Law Offices of Sean M. Cleary, P.A, was named one of Florida Legal Elite’s “legal elite attorneys” in 2014. Bonnie Hochman Rothell has joined the Washington, D.C. office of Morris Manning & Martin as a partner. Brian L. Smith is now a partner at Adams, Hall, Schieffelin & Smith in Orlando.
1999
Jaret L. Davis, Co-Managing Shareholder of
the Miami office of Greenberg Traurig, has been named to eMerge Americas inaugural Techweek 100 Miami list. He has also been named the 2013 legal Professional of theYear by ICABA, and elected Vice Chair of the Miami Children’s Hospital Board of Directors. Brian L. Lerner, partner with Kim Vaughan Lerner LLP, has been appointed to the Board of Directors for Legal Aid Service of Broward County, Inc., and Coast to Coast Legal Aid of South Florida, Inc. David T. Lupo joined the Law Office of Sam J. Saad III as senior counsel. Nikki Lewis Simon, a Shareholder and the Director of Client Development and Corporate Social Responsibility at the Miami office of Greenberg Traurig, was named to the Most Powerful Black Professionals in Business and Industry for 2014 by Legacy Miami magazine. Jennifer Spradley, a capital-qualified attorney working with Public Defender Julianne Holt, is the lead attorney on a high-profile murder trial, State v. Schenecker in Tampa.
2000
Andrew S. Feuerstein passed away on May 6.
Jason E. Havens, founding co-
member of Havens & Miller, P.L.L.C., was elected President of the Estate Law Specialist Board, Inc. Adam Horowitz has joined the Crime