Growing up in segregated Fort Lauderdale in the 1960s, Eugene Pettis never dreamed he would someday make history as the first black president in the Florida Bar’s 63-year history.
Pettis, a partner at Haliczer Pettis & Schwamm in Fort Lauderdale, completed his one-year term in June. As the leader of the third-largest bar group in the country, he launched a three-year study dubbed Vision 2016 on the future of the practice of law. He also developed a one-year curriculum to train young lawyers for bar and community leadership positions.
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