Lynn B. Aust

Certified County Mediator. Attorney with practice limited to Estate Planning, Guardianship, Probate and Business Planning, SBA/Disney National Entrepreneur Center Advisory Board, Director of Legal Ministry at St. Luke's United Methodist Church, YMCA Board Member-Dr. Phillips Family Center, and Teen Court Judge and Jury Advisor.

 

 

 

Linda Begley

Certified County Mediator.  BSBA in Organizational Behavior, Masters in Human Resources & Management.  Former manager of labor relations and human resource manager at Lockheed Martin.  Adjunct professor teaching human resource and management courses at undergrad and graduate levels.

 

 

Danna Bishop

Certified County Mediator.  BA in Business Management/Marketing. Orange County licensed process server and owner of process serving/private investigation agency since 1994; licensed mortgage broker; paralegal - 13 years. Certified Notary signing agent.

Sandra Blossey

Certified County and Family Mediator, trained Parenting Coordinator, and trained Workplace Mediator. Doctorate in Human and Organization Development. Career included organization consulting, college teaching/administration, therapist in adolescent psychiatric inpatient/outpatient settings and teacher of learning disabled.

Kim Brannan

Certified County and Family Mediator.  BA in Business, MS in Counseling and Psychology; Parenting Coordinator. Over 25 years of business experience in banking, real estate, insurance, office management, hospitality, business owner, counseling and college instructor.

Barbara Brugman

Certified County and Family Mediator.  Background in Organizational Leadership and currently is the Dean of Students and teacher for Gateway High School in the Osceola County School District.  Holds special classes for at-risk kids.

Claire Carter

Certified County Mediator, arbitrator, approved county mediation assistant trainer for the Florida Office of the State Courts Administrator, Dispute Resolution Center.  Prior fields: small business owner, executive management consulting firm, elected board and president of international trade association, university administrator private foundation.

 

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Sherman Dantzler

Certified County Mediator.  BBA degree with major in finance and minor in accounting. Graduate degree of distinction from The Institute of Financial Education. Panel member and certified arbitrator and mediator with the American Arbitration Association & the National Association of Security Dealers. Certified USPS mediator. Former CEO of banking institution.

Bill Ditto

Certified Family, Dependency and County Mediator.  Parenting Coordinator.  Executor of many estates.  Educational advisor and has served on mediation advisory boards. Mediated thousands of cases in 3 counties in family, county and dependency in past 14 years.  Prior fields - Vice President of Administration - Houston Community College, teacher, and Major in U.S.A.R. (Retired).

Eric Dunlap

Arbitrator and Certified Circuit, County, Appellate, and Federal Mediator. Attorney with over 14 years experience litigating employment, administrative, and general civil issues. Experienced in defending claims against the State of Florida, law enforcement agencies, and public employees. Serves as an approved assistant trainer in certified county mediation training programs. 

Sue Felder

Certified County Mediator.  Retired - State of Florida Economic Services and Child Support Enforcement.  JD, completed internships at Legal Aid Society and Mediation. Deputy Director of Moot Court Society. Prior experience in market research and accounting services, manager in medical, pharmaceutical and veterinary advertising. 

Tezlyn Figaro
Current CEO of “The Allied Group”- a human resource and mediation consultancy. Licensed P&C, Group Life/Health Insurance Agent, Licensed Insurance General Lines Liability Adjuster. Prior experience includes Security Police officer with the U.S. Air Force Reserves and managerial experience with General Motors Acceptance Corporation, GEICO Insurance, Farmers Insurance, Robert Half International Accounting Staffing Firm, Bank of Oklahoma, Southwestern Bell and Ajilon Professional Staffing.

Art Foucault

Certified County Mediator.  Service in the U.S. military spanning 26 years. Retired Lt Colonel. Service was world-wide and included action in two conflicts. Following retirement returned to Africa and the Middle East, including Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Sudan and Nigeria. Managed high dollar high technology contracts including radar, satellite communications, and CAD-CAM systems.

 

Fern Hurt

Certified County Mediator. Former office manager for the Federal Government Department of Interior. Specialized in personnel. Unemployment counselor – District of Columbia. Volunteered for Displaced Homemakers of Central Florida. Member of the AAUW and League of Women Voters. Played women’s baseball at South Bend and in Wisconsin from 1943-44.

 

Hugo Gumbs

Certified County and Family Mediator. GAL, volunteers in Seminole County. Parenting Coordinator. Life member of Disabled American Veterans.  Former commander, Disabled American Veterans Chapter.  Former manager of labor relations and human resources with the Postal Service.

Ealnor Hamilton

Certified County Mediator and Arbitrator; Florida Bar Mediator and Arbitrator; and approved assistant mediator trainer for the Supreme Court DRC.  Expertise in juvenile restitution and adult criminal restitution.   Prior field: 15 years in investigations.

Debby Haynes

Certified County Mediator.  Married into the family of the owners of the Minnesota Twins baseball team. Taught at the Naval Base in Orlando. On the Board of “Women Playing for Time” - MD Anderson Cancer Center, which has the largest women only fundraiser in the nation.

Ted Haynes

Certified County Mediator. Born in Ponca City, Oklahoma.  One of 12 children. Graduated from Langston University and Oklahoma City University School of Law.  Practiced law in Oklahoma City.  Federal administrative law judge for 25 years.  Retired in January 2006.

Art Hillman

Certified County Mediator. Retired optometrist after 35 years. Served in World War II. Arbitrator for the Better Business Bureau on the Lemon Law. Has done numerous homeowner association/homeowner mediations. Volunteered for the Sheriff’s Department in the Parking Enforcement Division and served as a 911 operator for approximately one year. Has a real estate brokers license and worked in the laundry and dry cleaning business for a number of years.

Dave Hunt

Certified Family, Dependency and County Mediator.  Owned small business for over 20 years and familiar with financial applications of same.  Mediated thousands of cases in county, family and dependency in past 14 years. Adjunct professor at Barry Law School. Approved mediation trainer for the Supreme Court DRC.  Prior field - English teacher.

Fern Hunt

Certified County Mediator.  Former office manager for the Federal Government Department of Interior; specialized in personnel.  Unemployment counselor – District of Columbia.  Volunteered for Displaced Homemakers of Central Florida.  Member of the AAUW and League of Women Voters.  Played women’s baseball at South Bend and in Wisconsin from 1943-44.

Charles Kahn

Certified County Mediator.  Worked with Eleanor Roosevelt at the Radio Liberty Foreign Broadcast Network in NY.  Spent 50 years in management consulting.  Has mediated union contracts. He was an assistant professor of business administration for 18 years. He is approved by the Florida Supreme Court as a primary county mediation trainer.

 

Jerry Kallas

Certified County Mediator.  Over 15 years in the legal business, 10 years in the government sector, certified by USF to mediate employment disputes. Mediates housing, student and faculty cases at University of Central Florida. Certified with the Florida Department of Education in Special Education.  Assistant trainer for certified county mediators.

Frank Kaney

Certified County and Family Mediator.  Born and raised in Tampa. Graduated from Florida State University and the University of Miami School of Law.  Served as a judge in Orange and Osceola counties for 30 years.  Retired in 2000.

Margie Long

Certified County Mediator.  Owner of a successful Florida tourism business for over 15 years. Familiar with management, finance, employment, advertising, marketing & tourism.  Serves on various boards and committees in Osceola & Orange Counties including the Osceola County Marketing Advisory Committee.

Bill Lyng

Certified County and Circuit Mediator.  Air Force brat.  JD from University of Toledo.  Attorney in Juvenile Court for 30 years.

Oneill C. Martinez 
Oneill Martinez is an associate attorney at Paul J. Morgan & Associates P.A. in Winter Park, Florida. Oneill attended Brevard Community College receiving his A.A. degree in Business Administration.  He transferred to Florida State University where he earned his Bachelor of Science degree in Psychology. Mr. Martinez attended law school at Barry University School of Law where he enrolled in their dual Master of Business Administration and Juris Doctor Program.

 

 

 

 

Pat Mastronardo

Certified County, Family and Dependency Mediator, alternate contract mediator for Family and Dependency.  Contract Parenting Coordinator, volunteer GAL (Seminole County) and domestic violence advocate.  Prior fields: New York attorney, business owner selling consumer electronic accessories to major retailers, CFO of dairy/food producer, Wall Street commercial banker, and financial consultant.

 

Ruth Matthews

Certified County Mediator.  Former U.S. Diplomat and retired as the Consul General of Foreign Service. In 1961 she married a Foreign Service officer. Taught high school and was an adjunct professor at Valencia Community College.  She is tri-lingual (Spanish and Portuguese).

Hector Mejias

Certified County Mediator.  Former businessman with 30 years in the Housing Department of the U.S. in Puerto Rico. Currently works for the R.S.V.P. program in Osceola County; volunteers for Meals on Wheels and the Senior Center.  Bilingual in Spanish.

 

Marilyn Middleton

Certified County Mediator.  Worked for the D.C. Dept. of Naval Intelligence.  Certified medical assistant (EMTA), paramedic, Red Cross disaster nurse,  real estate agent,  high school nurse, and Sunday School teacher. Ordained minister & hospital chaplain - Celebration Florida Hospital.  Appointed by Gov. Bush to Florida Board of Health.

Norman Miller

Certified County Mediator.  Former Flight Engineer US Navy. Contract negotiator for Navy Dept and NASA. Regional Director for Peace Corps in South India. Eighteen years as owner/manager of several small businesses. Executive administrator for two health and development projects in Bangladesh. Coordinator International Health Ministries for Presbyterian Church USA. Volunteer domestic violence court advocate and SCORE business counselor..

Reverend Ralston Nembhard

Certified County Mediator.  Priest in the Episcopal Church.  Has written two books about peace in the Middle East.

Barbara Noriega

Certified County and Family Mediator.  Parenting Coordinator.  USPS and EEO mediator.  Human resource professional; teen court volunteer. Mediator of the Year for Osceola 2007.

Karen Pelot

Certified County Mediator.  Full time private practice mediator; BS degree in communications, minors in business and sociology; Senior Claims Law Associate designation; prior Regional Director and Sr. Manager, with more than 15 years experience at Fortune 500 property & casualty insurance companies.  Former registered lobbyist; former vice-chair of Florida Insurance Council’s fraud committee; former director, Florida Anti Car Theft Committee.

John Quinones

Certified Family and County Mediator. Osceola County Commissioner. Attorney. Prior Field: House Rep for District 49 and was the only Puerto Rican Republican legislator in the U.S. at the time. Former Governor Bush called him a “Rising Star”.  Bilingual

Elliot Raphaelson

Certified County Mediator. Approved assistant county trainer.  Volunteers as counselor to small business owners for SCORE.  Previous work experience: retired VP at Chase Manhattan Bank; taught personal financial planning courses at college level for 20 years; conducted retirement planning and personal financial planning seminars for Chase, Dow Jones, and U.S. Military Academy at West Point; wrote two books related to personal financial planning and retirement planning.   

Richard Reinhardt

Certified County and Circuit Court Mediator. B.A. cum laude, Rollins College; J.D. with Distinction, Emory University School of Law. Bar admissions: GA (1979); FL (1980); various U.S. District Courts and Courts of Appeal; and U.S. Supreme Ct.  Extensive private practice experience in complex business litigation and professional malpractice fields.  

Rebeca Rembis

Certified County Mediator. Currently in the real estate business. Attorney since 1984, practice in Family and Real Estate Law. Retired judge from Mexico City, and professor of the University of Mexico Economic Science and Civil Law. Bilingual in Spanish. 

 

Maria Ross

Certified County Mediator.  Born in USSR.  Masters in Engineering from Moscow State University.  Came to America in 2000.  Formerly an engineer for Ericson Corporation in the marketing department.  Trilingual.  

Eula Scott

Certified County Mediator.  Contracted construction jobs with the Federal Government for Niagara Power Plant, New York Subway and Titan II missile bases; also contracted with Martin Marietta, Disney World and the Mississippi Test Facility.  Worked for the Clerk of Court for 25 years.

Rosalee Serros

Certified County Mediator and Arbitrator. Taught 6th grade & physical education. Helped establish the Information Booth at the Courthouse and was the Volunteer Coordinator for 6 years. Teaches anti-smoking to grade schools.  Is a member of AAUW & Orange County Medical Alliance.  Member of the League of Women Voters.

William Sentner
Bill is a licensed appraiser, realtor, and community association manager. He has been a certified tax assessor, building inspector, zoning board chairman, court expert witness, member of the Burlington N. J. mayor’s advisory board, Regional Chairman of N.J. Dept. of Labor Employers Advisory Council, and past president of the American Guild of Appraisers. He is currently with Residential Appraisal Services and provides appraisal services and legal testimony for lenders and attorneys.

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Linda Smith

Certified County and Family Mediator.  Started her own tax & accounting firm in 1982. An IRS Enrolled Agent, “Fellow” of the National Tax Practice Institute, Accredited Tax Advisor, Accredited Business Accountant, Certified Divorce Financial Analyst.  Speaker & publisher of various tax related issues.

Claudia Sovran

Certified County and Circuit Mediator.  Attended St. John’s Law School.  Twenty years in civil litigation.  Partner and co-founder of Alternative Dispute Resolution LLC.

Joan Starkovich

Certified County Mediator and Arbitrator.  Majored in drama and worked as a professional actress.  Masters in English Literature. Taught at San Francisco State.  Coordinator for JEPET, a university wide writing exit exam.  She has a black belt in Hapkido (a Korean martial art). Runs a family business.

Renee Stout

Certified County and Family Mediator.  Received Ph.D. in Human Factors Psychology from the University of Central Florida; has 20 years experience in training research, design, development and delivery, as well as human performance assessment and measurement, including team training, and has worked in multiple military and commercial sectors.

George Talbott

Certified County Mediator.  Served 4 years in the Army Air Corps and spent over 40 years in the agricultural field.  University of Florida graduate in Agriculture.  Employed with the State of Mississippi in organizing marketing programs, then the Florida Fruit & Vegetable Association in Orlando. Organized & managed Florida Celery Exchange (1st farmer’s co-op of its type) for 36 years.

Andrew Thomas

Certified County Mediator.  Former executive director of Center for Dispute Settlement in Rochester, NY, for 27 years. Visionary leader in mediation in NY and one of the founders of community mediation in the country. His mediation center was the first in NY State and third in the nation.

Donna Walters

Certified County Mediator and Arbitrator. Former hospital director- laboratory/outpatient services, operations director of laboratory, radiology, rehab, surgery, and outpatient departments, consultant to physician office practices; board member of Florida Hospital Outreach; arbitrator for the BBB.

Jean Werth

Certified County Mediator.  Lifetime career in the computer field as an instructor for UNIVAC and a technical writer for SAGE Systems and Cincinnati Bell.  Past officer of the Opera Guild and member of the Municipal Planning Board.  Currently an IRS volunteer tax assistant.

Gwendolyn Wiggins

Certified County Mediator.  Assistant Director of Office of  Human Relations.  Investigates housing and employee discrimination.  Adjunct professor at Warner Southern College.

Arve Wikstrom

Certified County, Family and Dependency mediator and also an assistant trainer. Arbitrator for the NASD, Better Business Bureau and Arbitration Forums, Inc.; Parent Coordinator. Owner of Alternative Dispute Resolution, LLC, a private mediation/arbitration firm. MBA, JD, Captain USAR. Combat Veteran, Afghanistan.

Harry Wilcock

Certified County Mediator. Approved Assistant Trainer for Dispute Resolution Services.  MBA from Manchester College in England.  Retired CEO, Support Services Co., United Kingdom.  Naturalized citizen 1996.

Jan Wilcock

Certified County Mediator.  Has been a commercial insurance agent for 22 years. Past president of the Kissimmee/Orlando Chamber of Commerce, served on the United Way and YMCA Boards, was charter member and president of the American Business Woman’s Association, worked with Florida Cattlemen’s Association in the beef education area and served as a 4-H leader.

Susan Williams

Certified County and Family Mediator with law degree and theology degree.  Attorney.  Twenty-five year legal career including JA, law clerk, GAL, and operating a law clinic.  Taught legal research & writing and estate planning.  Former legal defense team for WDW and legal advisor/board member of several organizations.  Recent honors:  Orange County Bar Association Award of Excellence and Seminole County Bar Association Pro Bono Award.

Carolyn Wilson

Certified County Mediator.  Former RN then BSN. Worked at Florida Hospital for 30 years.  She took care of the first AIDS patient in Central Florida back when they didn’t know what it was.  During her career she cared for models, actors, prisoners, etc.  She was also a home care coordinator, community liaison, and did marketing and public relations. She was president of the Osceola Community Council.

Jane Winegard

Certified County Mediator. Taught psychology for Pennsylvania State University, served as director of education & community service projects for Mental Health Association of Delaware, patient services coordinator for Multiple Sclerosis Society, emergency food coordinator - Long Island Council of Churches, & marketing director for Presbyterian Retirement Communities.

Dotti Wynn

Certified County Mediator.  Former Deputy Director of the SBA & US Price Commission & former host of  D.C. weekly radio show, realtor/mortgage broker, construction mgr. road/infrastructure contractor, talk show host.  Published “Live Life, Love Life.”  On boards of Florida Citrus Sports, Civic Facilities Authority, Business Advisory Council, Good News Jail & Prison Ministry.

Louise Zeuli

Certified County, Circuit and Family Mediator.  Attorney, past president of American Inns of Court, guest faculty at UCF, board member & former VP of Hospice, committee member of Rotary Club and SCC. Former Critical Care RN & on faculty of University of Florida, College of Nursing. Advanced RN practitioner at VA Hospital.