Law

Jill S. Schwartz

Founder & Managing Partner, Jill S. Schwartz & Associates, Winter Park

Jill S. Schwartz & Associates is an employment law firm, representing both employees and employers. Schwartz has been the founder/managing partner of the firm since 1992. Schwartz organized and chaired the annual Life, Art, Music gala, raising several million dollars over seven years that were used to build Hospice House, Central Florida’s first inpatient facility for end-of-life care.

EDUCATION: Rutgers University (BA), University of Maryland School of Law (JD)

IF I WERE GOVERNOR: As a resident of Florida for nearly 40 years, I have come to appreciate the unique, unspoiled and spectacular environment. Carefully balancing the protection of this with our rapid population growth would be first on my agenda.

MENTOR: From the beginning of my career, I have admired Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. While an undergraduate at Rutgers, where Justice Ginsburg was a professor, I took several of her courses. Like her, I had to overcome significant gender discrimination.

INSPIRING FLORIDIAN: Living by Mary McLeod Bethune Park in New Smyrna Beach, I’m inspired every day by the Florida educator and civil rights leader who was so critical to advancing the rights of African Americans and women in this country.

MOTIVATIONAL MANTRA: Margaret Mead said it, and it sits on my desk: ‘Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful citizens can change the world; indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.’

BRYAN AYLSTOCK

Aylstock Witkin Kreis & Overholtz

Dean Cannon

GrayRobinson

CHARLES S. CAULKINS

FISHER PHILLIPS

Jamie Alan Cole

Weiss Serota Helfman Cole & Bierman

Lisa Colon

Saul Ewing Arnstein & Lehr

DEAN COLSON

Colson, Hicks, Eidson

Jaret L. Davis

Greenberg Traurig

Leticia Diaz

Barry University School of Law

ALBERT E. DOTSON JR.

BILZIN SUMBERG

Barbara Fernandez

Hinshaw & Culbertson

Michelle Gervais

Blank Rome

Robert J. Grammig

Holland & Knight

Donald J. Hayden

Mark Migdal & Hayden

YOLANDA CASH JACKSON

Becker & Poliakoff

Fred Karlinsky

Greenberg Traurig

LORI KILLINGER

LEWIS, LONGMAN & WALKER

BRAD KIMBRO

Holland & Knight

ALAN KLUGER

KLUGER, KAPLAN, SILVERMAN, KATZEN & LEVINE

Gary Lesser

Lesser Lesser Landy & Smith

Laird Lile

Laird A. Lile

Sigrid McCawley

Boies Schiller Flexner

Patricia Mendez-Cambo

Softbank Group International

Michael Minton

Dean Mead

Harvey E. Oyer III

Shutts & Bowen

MIKE PAPANTONIO

Levin Papantonio Rafferty

Wayne Pathman

Pathman Schermer Tandy

Bill Perry

Gunster

Eugene Pettis

Haliczer Pettis & Schwamm

Sean Pittman

Pittman Law Group

Edward Pozzuoli

Tripp Scott

Peter Prieto

Podhurst Orseck

Rocky Rodriguez

BUCHANAN, INGERSOLL & ROONEY

Gary L. Sasso

Carlton Fields

JILL S. SCHWARTZ

JILL S. SCHWARTZ AND ASSOCIATES

Adele Stone

Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney

EVERETT WILSON

Polsinelli

Jéan E. Wilson

Greenberg Traurig

Gregory C. Yadley

Shumaker, Loop & Kendrick