Assistant Secretary, Florida Department of Community Affairs (1983-1985). Assistant Deputy Attorney General and Chief, Division of Cabinet Affairs for the Florida Attorney General (1979-1983). Assistant General Counsel for Governor Reubin Askew (1977-1978). Assistant General Counsel, Florida Department of Administration (1977). Chair of the Tallahassee Leon County Civic Center Authority. Chair of the Florida Chamber Growth Management Leadership Task Force. Board of Directors with Associated Industries of Florida. Member, City of Tallahassee Charter Review Commission. Practice Group Leader, Government Law and Consulting. Member of Carlton Fields' Executive Committee. Member of Carlton Fields' Board of Directors. Tallahassee Office Managing Shareholder. Speaker, legislature's extensive changes to Florida's growth management laws to a number of governmental attorneys on June 23, 2009. Also to more than 130 realtors, homebuilders, local government officials, lawyers, and developers at the Greater Tampa Area Association of Realtors on June 24, 2009. Speaker, the Westshore Business Alliance to recap the 2009 Legislative Session in Tampa on May 12, 2009. Speaker, the Florida State University Environmental Forum in Tallahassee on April 1, 2009. Speaker on legislature's extensive changes to Florida's growth management laws to a number of governmental attorneys on June 23, 2009. Also to more than 130 realtors, homebuilders, local government officials, lawyers, and developers at the Greater Tampa Area Association of Realtors on June 24, 2009. Speaker at the Westshore Business Alliance to recap the 2009 Legislative Session in Tampa on May 12, 2009. Speaker at the Florida State University Environmental Forum in Tallahassee on April 1, 2009. Speaker at the Statewide NAIOP Meeting held in Tallahassee on March 23, 2009. Speaker and panel leader at the Florida Chamber's 25th Annual Growth Management, Energy, Climate Change & The Environment Short Course held in Daytona Beach on February 18, 2009. Speaker at the FAPA Public Policy Workshop in Tallahassee on February 4, 2009. Speaker at the Economic Development Council of Tallahassee/Leon County, Inc. Board meeting on Developments of Regional Impact in Tallahassee on August 28, 2008. Speaker at the Florida Association of County Attorneys Meeting on Transportation Mitigation held at Doral on June 26, 2008. Organizer and Speaker at a 4-hour presentation on "Transportation Concurrency," at the Florida Chamber of Commerce's 24th Annual Growth Management and Environmental Permitting Short Course held at Daytona Beach on February 20, 2008. Speaker on the Growth Management Act for a Tampa CLE on October 16, 2007. Speaker at the Transportation Forum on Growth Challenges in Florida on June 21, 2007. Selected for inclusion in Florida Trend's Florida Legal Elite 2008 and 2009. Listed in Chambers USA Guide to America's Leading Business Lawyers - Zoning and Land Use. Listed in The Best Lawyers in Americ.a Listed in Florida Super Lawyers, 2008 and 2009. Listed in The Legal 500 (Land Use and Zoning). Named to the 10-person 2009 Tallahassee Charter Review Committee.