MICHELLE M. GERVAIS

PARTNER & CO-CHAIR, SPORTS INDUSTRY GROUP, BLANK ROME, TAMPA

Blank Rome is an Am Law 100 firm with 16 offices and more than 750 attorneys and principals who provide comprehensive legal and advocacy services to clients across a range of industries. Gervais has been with the firm for more than nine years. She also serves as guardian ad litem to children involved in domestic violence cases and represents single parents in custody disputes pro bono. In 2017, she founded and co-chaired AdventHealth Tampa’s inaugural Fashion for Hope showcasing breast cancer survivors, benefiting the Kay Meyer Breast Care Center.

EDUCATION: Central Michigan University (BS), University of Miami (JD)

FIRST JOB: A waitress at Dairyland when I was 13 and living in a small town in Michigan. I may have overstated my age to be able to work, however, I wanted financial independence.

SOMETHING SURPRISING: I was once County Fair Queen — no judgment please. Unbeknownst to me, winning meant being entered into the Miss Teen Michigan Pageant where I was Second Runner Up and Miss Congeniality.

HOBBY: Currently, my “hobby” involves restoring our home from the effects of Hurricane Milton. My heart goes out to the folks throughout Tampa Bay and the surrounding areas who were affected and continue to be displaced and who are required to fight every day to get back in their home.