Five new directors join Foundation board

Retired Chief Judge of the First Judicial Circuit, John P. Kuder, has been elected by the Foundation to serve a three-year term as an at-large director. Kuder earned his bachelor's degree from the Spring Hill College and his juris doctor from the University of Florida College of Law. Kuder established the Chief Judge's Children's Council, Youth Gang Task Force and Task Force on Minority Issues. He is a founding member of the First Judicial Circuit Inns of Court. Kuder founded the John P. Kuder Children's Foundation, an orphanage and school for abandoned and orphaned children in India.

Miami attorney David B. Rothman of Rothman & Associates, P.A. has been appointed by The Florida Bar Board of Governors to serve a three-year term as an at-large director. Rothman earned his bachelor's degree and juris doctor from the University of Florida. Rothman served on The Florida Bar Board of Governors for more than a decade and served as president of the Miami–Dade County Bar Association from 1997-98. In 2007, he led "Put More Back," a two-year campaign to boost attorney pro bono hours.

Tampa attorney Hala Sandridge of Fowler White Boggs has been elected by the Foundation to serve a three-year term as an at-large director. Sandridge earned her bachelor's degree from the University of Florida and her juris doctor from the Florida State University College of Law. She has served on committees and sections of the American Bar Association and chaired the appellate sections of the Hillsborough County Bar Association and The Florida Bar. Sandridge has been recognized several times for her pro bono service, including receiving the Distinguished Pro Bono Award from Bay Area Legal Services in 2007 and the Have a Heart Pro Bono Service Award in 2009.

As president of Florida Legal Services, Tallahassee attorney Daniel H. Thompson of Berger Singerman is a designated director on the Foundation board. Thompson earned his bachelor's degree from Yale University and his juris doctor from the Florida State University College of Law. He served as president of the Legal Aid Foundation of the Tallahassee Bar Association and is a former member of the Executive Council of the Environmental and Land Use Law Section of The Florida Bar.

As Florida Bar president-elect, Tampa attorney Gwynne A. Young is a designated director on the Foundation board. A shareholder with Carlton Fields, Young earned her bachelor's degree at Duke University and her juris doctor from the University of Florida College of Law. She has served on several Florida Bar sections and committees and has also served on the American Bar Association's Steering Committee on the Unmet Legal Needs of Children. She received the Hillsborough County Bar Association's Jimmy Kynes Pro Bono Award in 1999 and was the 2003 recipient of The Florida Bar President's Pro Bono Award. Young is a past president of the Hillsborough County Bar Association

and the Hillsborough County Bar Foundation.

At-large directors serve a maximum of two, three-year terms, with one-third selected by the Board of Governors of The Florida Bar, one-third by the Foundation board, and one-third by the Florida Supreme Court.