The Florida Bar Foundation

J. Blair Culpepper appointed to Florida Bar Foundation Board

by Gabrielle Davis
June 2009

ORLANDO -- Retired Winter Park banker J. Blair Culpepper has been appointed to serve a three-year term as a public member on the board of directors of The Florida Bar Foundation, a statewide nonprofit organization that funds Legal Aid, as well as programs to improve Florida’s justice system and encourage law students and young lawyers to pursue public interest careers.

Culpepper, has served as director, senior vice president and director of marketing of First National Bank of Central Florida in Winter Park.

He attended the University of Florida where he earned his bachelor’s degree and his master’s in business administration. Culpepper also did graduate studies at the LSU School of Banking and Harvard Business School.

Culpepper is a past public member of The Florida Bar Board of Governors and has served on the audit, communications and disciplinary review committees. He is a current member of The Florida Bar’s Ninth Circuit Grievance Committee and the Florida Supreme Court Commission on Professionalism.

Culpepper, who was appointed by the Joint Florida Bar/Foundation Nominating Committee, will begin serving his term will begin July 1.