PRESIDENT
Gigi Rollini practices in the Tallahassee office of Holland & Knight LLP, with a focus on administrative, appellate and energy law. She formerly served as senior law clerk to First District Court of Appeal Judge Robert T. Benton II. She is a past Florida Bar Foundation Public Service Fellow, working with the 2nd Circuit State Attorney’s Office on felony cases involving women and children victims. Prior to law school, she was a legislative aide in the Florida House of Representatives. She is a triple Seminole, with a B.A., M.P.A., and J.D. from Florida State University. During these pursuits, she was awarded the Public Employee Roundtable National Scholarship in Public Administration. She also served as the Law Review’s senior articles editor and president of the Women’s Law Symposium. After graduating magna cum laude, she was elected to the Order of the Coif. With continued commitment to service, she serves on FAWL’s Executive Board as membership director and is incoming president of Tallahassee Women Lawyers (TWL). She was recently recognized as a Holland & Knight “Pro Bono Champ” for her work with Legal Services of North Florida. She is also an adjunct professor at the FSU College of Law, and a member of the American Bar Association, Florida Bar Association and William H. Stafford American Inn of Court.

PRESIDENT-ELECT
Susan R. Healy is a partner in the Naples law firm Vernon Healy, where she concentrates her practice in securities/investment litigation and arbitration, business litigation and appellate law. She is a frequent lecturer on investor rights. She earned her J.D., magna cum laude, from Nova Southeastern University, and her B.A. in psychology, with honors, from Florida Atlantic University. Before law school, she was planner/evaluator for the Broward County Community Mental Health Board and served as the Board’s Acting Executive Director. She is active in Teen Court of Collier County (volunteer judge); the City of Bonita Springs Board for Land Use Hearings and Adjustments and Zoning Board of Appeals (Vice Chair); the Education Foundation of Collier County (Treasurer); the Connect Now Steering Committee; the Imperial River Conservancy; the Appellate Practice Section of The Florida Bar; the Public Investors Arbitration Bar Association; the Collier County Bar Association and the Collier County Women’s Bar Association (Secretary).

SECRETARY
Jill Weiss focuses her practice on complex commercial and business litigation, business torts, class actions and family law. She earned a B.A. in economics from Emory University, an M.B.A. in finance from New York University and a J.D., magna cum laude, from Nova Southeastern University Shepard Broad Law Center, where she was a member of the Law Review serving as both a junior staff member and a senior editor. As a finalist in the American Trial Lawyer Association Negotiation Competition, she represented the Law Center at the regional level. She is a director of the Palm Beach County Bar Association and is the 2008 Chair of the Palm Beach County Bar Association Bench Bar Conference. She also serves as membership co-chair for the Craig S. Barnard Inns of Court. She is immediate past president of the Palm Beach County Chapter of the Florida Association for Women Lawyers. She is a founding director of the Women’s Foundation of Palm Beach County and is an active member of The Florida Bar and the American Bar Association. She lives in Palm Beach Gardens.

TREASURER
Laura K. Wendell is Of Counsel at the Miami-based Weiss Serota Helfman Pastoriza Cole & Boniske, P.L., where she practices in the firm’s Litigation Group. She concentrates in appellate practice and complex litigation involving local government matters, land use, commercial disputes and a variety of other matters. She is an active member of the Miami-Dade Chapter of FAWL, the Dade County Bar Association and The Florida Bar Appellate Section. She graduated from Harvard Law School in 1991, and began her legal career in Rhode Island and Massachusetts, relocating to Florida with her family in 1995. Prior to law school, she earned a B.A. with honors from Brown University and a Ph.D. from the University of Toronto, where she taught in the field of Classical Studies.

JOURNAL EDITOR
Sabrina Ferris focuses her practice on complex commercial litigation and products liability actions in federal and state courts. She has litigated matters involving contract disputes, fiduciary relationships, products liability, shareholder disputes, employee non-competition agreements, fraud, business torts and insurance claims. She was a member of the litigation team retained by George W. Bush’s presidential campaign during the 2000 election disputes. She earned her J.D., magna cum laude, from the University of Miami School of Law, where she was editor-in-chief of the Law Review. She also holds a bachelor’s in psychology from Miami.

LEGISLATIVE DIRECTOR
Elisha D. Roy, graduated from Nova Southeastern University in 2001 immediately beginning work in the area of Marital & Family Law. Ms. Roy is a Board Certified Marital and Family Law Attorney working at the West Palm Beach firm of Sasser Cestero & Sasser, P.A. Ms. Roy is active in both the local and state Bar Associations. In addition to the Standing Committee on Professionalism and local Grievance Committee, she currently serves on the Executive Council of the Florida Bar Family Law Section. In her many leadership positions with the Family Law Section, Ms. Roy was integral in the drafting and passing of the 2008 modifications to Florida Statutes on parenting and timesharing. As a result, Ms. Roy has lectured numerous times on this topic and authored the November 2008 Florida Bar Journal article “The End of Custody in Florida: Finally Parents are Just Parents.” Ms. Roy is a frequent lecturer on these statutory changes as well as other legislative issues in family law. Ms. Roy was recently appointed by Chief Justice Quince to the Supreme Court Steering Committee on Families and Children in the Court. Ms. Roy is in her third consecutive term on the Board of Governors of the Young Lawyers Division of the Florida Bar. She also serves as Direction of State FAWL’s Legislation Committee and Co-Chair of the Family Law Section Legislation Committee. Locally, she serves on her local bar association as the Chair of the Palm Beach County Unified Family Court Practice Committee. Ms. Roy has been awarded for her hard work both in and out of the Court. She has been honored with the Legal Aid Society’s Child Advocacy Award and the 2007 Bar President’s Pro Bono Service Award Winner for the Fifteenth Judicial Circuit presented before the Florida Supreme Court. Ms. Roy was also awarded with the Florida Bar Family Law Section’s Chair Merit Award in 2007 and the Chair’s Award for Outstanding Service to the section in 2008.

DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR
Robin Bresky, of The Law Offices of Robin Bresky, is an appellate attorney who specializes in civil and criminal appeals. She also handles litigation support for other firms including research, motion and complex pleading preparation. She is past chair of the South Palm Beach County Bar Association’s Appellate Practice Committee, where she is a member of the Board of Directors. She was recently appointed to Chair the Palm Beach County Bar Association’s of Palm Beach County Bar Association’s Appellate Practice Committee, a member of Palm Beach County Bar Association’s Judicial Relations and Solo Practice Committees, a member of The Florida Bar’s Standing Committee for Law Related Education, a member of The Florida Bar’s Appellate and Solo Practice Committees, a member of the Craig S. Barnard American Inn of Court, and serves on the Board of Directors for the Legal Aid Society of Palm Beach County. Before opening her own firm in 2000, she was a criminal prosecutor in Broward County. She is the recipient of the Legal Aid Society of Palm Beach County’s 2006 Appellate Law Award. She earned a B.S. in broadcast journalism from the University of Florida and received her J.D. from Chicago-Kent College of Law.

MEMBERSHIP DIRECTOR
Sharon M. Hanlon was raised on a Minnesota farm and educated at The College of St.?Catherines (B.A.), Central Michigan University (M.A. in clinical psychology) and Cooley Law School (J.D.). She practiced plaintiff’s personal injury law in Michigan for 10 years, moving to Naples in 1992 with her husband and three children. She joined Vega Brown Stanley Martin & Zelman, the oldest law firm in Naples, becoming its first female partner. With Ted Zelman she formed Zelman & Hanlon, PA, and continues specializing in personal injury. She serves as chair-elect on the 20th Judicial Circuit JNC, the 20th Judicial Pro Bono Committee, secretary/treasurer of The Inns of Court, and ABOTA. She is a past officer of the Michigan Women’s Lawyers Association; past recipient of an ABA Young Lawyers Award (1991); founding president of Collier County Women’s Bar Association (1993); past president of Collier County Trial Lawyers Association and Collier Women’s Political Caucus. She has sat on various community boards and is a Leadership Collier graduate.

PUBLIC RELATIONS DIRECTOR
Brittany Maxey, of Maxey’s Law Offices, PLLC’s practice focuses on intellectual property matters including client counseling, all aspects of the procurement of patents, trademarks, and copyrights, and technology licensing. She has experience in the biological, pharmaceutical and mechanical arts. As a patent attorney, she is registered to practice before the United States Patent & Trademark Office, wherein less than one (1%) percent of all attorneys in the United States have this designation. Ms. Maxey received her bachelor’s degree in Biological Science from the University of Mississippi. She attended the University of Mississippi on an athletic scholarship for softball as a pitcher, and was a member of the team during their inaugural season. The Oklahoma native, received her Juris Doctor from Stetson University College of Law, where she was the diversity chairperson, a school ambassador and served on the student government. Ms. Maxey is a regular guest on the radio program "Ask An Attorney" where she answers call-in questions on intellectual property law.  Currently, Brittany serves as Vice President of the Pinellas County Association for Women Lawyers Chapter.