Miami Attorney Dori Foster-Morales Named Florida Bar President for 2020-2021 Term
Foster-Morales' term will begin in June 2020.
December 19, 2018 at 03:59 PM
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Dori Foster-Morales / Photo: J. Albert Diaz/ALM
Dori Foster-Morales, managing partner at Foster-Morales Sockel-Stone, has been named Florida Bar President for the 2020-2021 term. She will be sworn in at the June 2019 Annual Convention in Boca Raton when current President-elect John Stewart takes the oath as president.
Her term will begin in June 2020.
Foster-Morales is a family law attorney who serves on the Florida Bar's Board of Governors and the Committee on Mental Health and Wellness of Florida Lawyers.
“I feel passionately about the health of our members, mental, physical, and financial,” Foster-Morales said in a statement. “They're interrelated.”
Foster-Morales is a member of the American Bar Association, the Cuban American Bar Association, the Florida Association for Women Lawyers, the Dade County Bar Association, the Broward County Bar Association and the Palm Beach County Bar Association and is a Fellow of The Florida Bar Foundation.
Michelle Suskauer of Dimond Kaplan & Rothstein is the current Florida Bar president.
All but two of the Florida Bar Board of Governors seats also have been announced. Eighteen incumbents won their seats unopposed:
Second Circuit, Seat 1: Larry Sellers, Tallahassee Fourth Circuit, Seat 2: Michael G. Tanner, Jacksonville Fifth Circuit, Seat 1: Renee Thompson, Ocala Sixth Circuit, Seat 2: Sandra F. Diamond, St. Petersburg Eighth Circuit, Seat 1: Stephanie Marusak Marchman, Gainesville Ninth Circuit, Seat 2: Julia Lauren Frey, Orlando Eleventh Circuit, Seat 6: Steven W. Davis, Miami Twelfth Circuit, Seat 1: F. Scott Westheimer, Sarasota Thirteenth Circuit, Seat 2: Amy S. Farrior, Tampa Fifteenth Circuit, Seat 2: Ronald P. Ponzoli, Jr., West Palm Beach Fifteenth Circuit, Seat 4: Gary S. Lesser, West Palm Beach Sixteenth Circuit, Seat 1: Wayne LaRue Smith, Key West Seventeenth Circuit, Seat 2: Diana Santa Maria, Davie Seventeenth Circuit, Seat 3: Lorna Brown-Burton, Fort Lauderdale Seventeenth Circuit, Seat 5: Adam Rabinowitz, Fort Lauderdale Nineteenth Circuit, Seat 1: Gregory S. Weiss, Stuart Out-of-State, Seat 1: E. Duffy Myrtetus, Glen Allen, Virginia Out-of-State, Seat 3: Eric L. Meeks, Cincinnati, Ohio
New members elected for two-year terms beginning in June 2019 are:
Thirteenth Circuit, Seat 3: J. Carter Andersen, Tampa Twentieth Circuit, Seat 2: John D. Agnew, Fort Myers
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