PINELLAS COUNTY ESTATE PLANNING COUNCIL, INC.

Join Us for Lunch!

When: Monday, October 14, 2024

Meet the Judges! 

Networking will begin at 11:30AM. Lunch and Presentation at 12:00.

Judge Sherwood Coleman grew up in Clearwater, became an Eagle Scout and graduated from Clearwater High School before enjoying 7 years at the University of Florida.  After three years of learning how to try cases as an Assistant State Attorney, he moved into private practice specializing in criminal and civil rights litigation while partnering with Louis Kwall, Gregory Showers and Ryan Barack.  When his wife was posted overseas in Naples, Italy with the U.S. Navy he moved with her and was reintroduced to estate planning while volunteering as a legal assistance attorney for service members preparing for deployment.  After returning to Pinellas County he represented the Sheriff in state and federal litigation before Governor Rick Scott appointed him to the bench in 2013.

 This is his second visit with the Pinellas Estate Planning Council and he is looking forward to more excellent questions and good discussions – as long as they don’t involve Gator Football!

Pamela A. M. Campbell is a Circuit Judge for the Sixth Judicial Circuit; Pinellas and Pasco Counties. She was appointed to the bench in 2006 and has been re-elected three times without opposition. She has served in a felony criminal division, family division, civil division and currently presides in a probate and guardianship division in St. Petersburg. She also serves on the Civil Appellate panel. She has presided over 40 criminal jury trials and over 100 civil jury trials.  She practiced law in St. Petersburg for 17 years, with an emphasis in health care law, probate, and guardianship law, before her appointment to the bench. She was rated “AV” by Martindale Hubbell. Prior to becoming an attorney, she had 14 years of experience in the legislative arena working in an administrative role in the Florida House of Representatives, United States Senate, and later as a political consultant with a national governmental affairs firm.  Judge Campbell has a long commitment to the community through numerous charitable and non-profit organizations. Most notably, she served for many years on the Board of Directors, and as Chairman, of Operation PAR, a drug and alcohol rehabilitation program located in the Tampa Bay area. She also served a four-year term as a gubernatorial appointee to the Florida Board of Medicine, ending her term as the Vice Chairman for the Board and Chairman of several major committees.  Judge Campbell is Past President of the St. Petersburg Bar Association, Past President (twice) of the Barney Masterson Inn of Court, Past President of the Stetson College of Law Alumni Association and formerly one of the founding members of the St. Petersburg Bar Foundation.

She has received numerous awards for her dedication to professionalism and her community service, including: Named as the Florida 2018 Jurist of the Year by the American Board of Trial Advocates; Recognized by American Board of Trial Advocates, Tampa Bay Chapter, for her commitment to civility and professionalism (2018); Inducted into the Stetson College of Law Hall of Fame in 2022; The William Castagna Award for Judicial Excellence by the Masterson Inn of Court (2015); The St. Petersburg Bar Judicial Appreciation Award (2014); Heroes Among Us Award by the St. Petersburg Bar Foundation (2006); Richard T. Earle, Jr. Professionalism Award by the Masterson Inn of Court (2003); The Gulf Coast Business Review Professionalism Award presented by the St. Petersburg Bar Association (2003); and the Ben C. Willard Award by the Stetson Lawyers Alumni Association for humanitarian achievements in 2021, and inducted into Stetson’s Hall of Fame in 2022.

She received her Bachelor of Arts Degree from the University of South Florida and went on to receive a Juris Doctor from Stetson University College of Law in 1989.

Thank you to our lunch sponsors!