RON WEAVER
ATTORNEY, STEARNS WEAVER MILLER, TAMPA
Weaver’s firm has grown to employ about 350 in five Florida offices, including 170 attorneys. Weaver, who has been with the firm for 42 years, is a highly regarded expert on land and property rights who lectures locally and nationally on real estate finance and land use and is the author of 200 articles in professional publications. During the Great Recession, he helped found a group called Real Estate Lives that helps displaced real estate industry workers find employment or new careers.
| EDUCATION | University of North Carolina (BA), Harvard University (JD) |
| SOMETHING SURPRISING | I was scared to death to speak up in Harvard Law School, but now I love to engage every mind that comes to Tampa Bay or Zoom and have engaged many governors, senators, congressmen and President George W Bush. |
| NEW HOBBY | Researching and lecturing on climate change and sea-level change to Florida in the next 50 years |
| SABBATICAL TOPIC | Art all over Europe and all works of all the Impressionists. I love their colors and influences and inspirations. |
| READING | Transfluence: How to Lead with Transformative Influence in Today’s Climates of Change, by Walter Rakowich |