Florida Association for Women Lawyers Honors Mary Ann Morgan

The Central Florida Association of Women Lawyers has nominated Mary Ann Morgan for the prestigious Rosemary Barkett Outstanding Achievement Award for 2010 – an annual honor that recognizes an attorney who demonstrates a commitment to the purpose and goals of the association, has excelled in her career, has helped to overcome stereotypes associated with women attorneys and has advanced the status of women in the State of Florida.

Described by friends and colleagues as a person who quietly leads by example by living an honorable life and practicing law with excellence and ethics. Mary Ann Morgan has been a member of the Ninth Judicial Circuit Florida Bar Grievance Committee in 1993 becoming its chair in 1996; President of the Orange County Legal Aid Society 1999-2000; President of the Orange County Bar Association 2001-2002; a member of the Board of Directors for the Central Florida Trial Lawyers Association, now The Florida Justice Association; she has been a member of the CFAWL Board of Directors and pioneered the CFAWL mentorship program and the CFAWL Table for Eight (an intimate setting pairing experienced female lawyers with new female lawyers); and she is currently serving on the Florida Bar Board of Governors. For the past twenty years, Mary Ann has conducted programs for the Florida Bar Speakers Bureau. Early in her career, Mary Ann began volunteering as a Guardianship attorney for the Orange County Legal Aid Society. Today, twenty years later, her office bulletin board displays pictures of more than fifty children for whom she has served as a Guardianship attorney.

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