PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE
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Jessica Callow
2019-20 PBCBA President
I dedicate my final President’s Message
to all of our Palm Beach County Bar
Association (“PBCBA”) members. I’m
grateful for the opportunity to have
met so many fellow members this year
at Bar events or in their capacities
as Committee Chairs and Committee
members. Our members are attorneys,
judges, mediators, arbitrators, and
paralegals. Their varied backgrounds
and experiences make the PBCBA
an organization that reflects our
legal community and enables our
members to learn from one another.
While we didn’t get to complete every
networking event, CLE, or committee
meeting we planned this year due to
the pandemic, I’m awed by everything
we managed to accomplish and know
our Bar will continue to innovate in the
years to come. Thank you for trusting
me to lead the PBCBA this year and
allowing me to represent you to the best
of my abilities. I’m eternally grateful to
each one of you and for this amazing
experience.
I’d like to personally thank our Committee
Chairs for all of their hard work this year:
Rosine Plank-Brumback, Alternative
Dispute Resolution Committee; Tracy
Segal and Hon. Melanie Dale Surber
Appellate Practice; Nadine White-Boyd,
Bankruptcy Law CLE; Salesia Smith-
Gordon and Michael Pike, Bench Bar
Conference; Nina Welch and Daria
Pustilnik, Business Litigation CLE; Amy
Levenberg Terwilleger and Will Lewis,
Circuit Civil Practice; Brennan Grogan and
John Sheppard Jr., Co
CLE; Jean Marie Mi
Mutamba, Committe
Inclusion; Bill Cea,
Committee; Ron
Law CLE; Tequisha
Samuels, Elder Law
Steven Schwarzberg
CLE; Peter Forman a
Estate/Probate Law
Family Law CLE;
Guardianship Educ
Bridget Berry and Ro
Relations Committe
Law Related Edu
Kelsey Burke, Law
Bradley Avakian, Law
Herman, Local & Gov
Johnston Segal, Mem
Linda Wells, Paraleg
Hunt, PI/Wrongful D
Evert, Probate/Guard
and Cindy Crawfor
Committee; Jared Q
CLE; Evan Frederic
CLE; Lloyd Comiter,
Clinics Committee;
and Kenneth Johnso
Practitioner’s Comm
Technology Commit
Transaction Law
Toufanian and Rob
Family Practice; a
Worker’s Compensati
I’d also like to than
this year’s Board
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Dean Xenick, Pre
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