ALEXANDER PENALTA, Esquire is an American Trial Lawyer born
in Matanzas City, Cuba and of Galecian Spanish descent. He was raised
in the American heartland in Tulsa, Oklahoma, attended law school in
Kansas and has resided in Florida for over 30 years.
Mr. Penalta is a partner and shareholder at the Law Firm of Penalta &
Stiger, P.A. and is licensed to practice in Florida and Washington, D.C.
He is a Supreme Court Certified Arbitrator fluent in English and Spanish.
Mr. Penalta concentrates his practice on representing and defending the
Business Community, Marine Mammal, Rescue and Conservation
Facilities, Non profits, Veterinarians, Entrepreneurs, Small and Medium
Business Owners and Fortune 500 Companies and Families in Civil and
select Criminal matters including but not limited to Aviation, Business
Litigation, Employment Claims, Motorsports, Watersports, Sea, Air and
Land Operations and legal proceedings at the Local, County, State,
Federal and International Level.
As a former Appeals Referee in the executive state branch of government
for the Florida Department of Labor & Employment Security, Division of
Unemployment Compensation, Bureau of Appeals, Mr. Penalta is
experienced in representing and defending businesses and former
management throughout Florida in a variety of legal issues.
Alexander served as an Adjunct Associate Professor at Embry-Riddle
Aeronautical University of Daytona Beach, Florida, Fort Lauderdale Area
Resident Center, Division of Business Administration for ten years. He
taught "Seminar in Aviation Labor Relations," "Aviation Law," and "Federal
Regulations, Ethics and the Legal System," to pilots, maintenance
personnel, aviation management and Sikorsky, Pratt and Whitney, and
former Black Ops, NASA and Russian Rocket Propulsion Engineers. He
is a licensed FAA Private Pilot and represents pilots, management and
fixed base operators.
From 1995 to 1998, Mr Penalta served as an Adjunct Professor at Florida
Atlantic University at Boca Raton, College of Education, Dept. of
Educational Leadership and taught "Education and the Law" to education
graduates regarding legal issues facing public and private sector
employees and employers. Mr. Penalta has jointly authored "OSHA
Regulations' Potential Impact on the Dive Industry." with Robert F. Millott,
Ed.D., Milledge Murphey, Ph.D., Mary Beth Horodoski, Ed.D. in the
National Journal of Underwater Education (1995).
Mr. Penalta serves as a legal advisor to several members of the Alliance
for Marine Mammal Parks and Aquariums. Alexander served as the legal
advisor to the University of Florida, College of Health and Human
Performance, Academic Diving Program; National YMCA Scuba Program-
Florida Field; U.S. Underwater Federation and the National Association
for Cave Diving. He has spoken before the Broward County Bar Assoc.,
Labor and Employment Section on "Tactics and Procedures before the
Florida Dept. of Labor and Employment Security, Div. of Unemployment
Compensation Bureau of Appeals." Alexander Penalta has been a guest
on several radio and television interviews including RADIO FIESTA,
WLVS-AM1380, Morning Show with Dante Medina & Helman Ruiz,
"Sexual Harassment & The Jury System (Spanish)".
Alexander Penalta's current and past membership activities include the
Association For Intelligence Officers (AFIO); Women in Defense (WID);
Naval Intelligence Professionals (NIP); Precision Strike Association
(PSA); American Society for Industrial Security (ASIS International);
National Defense Industrial Association (NDIA); Armed Forces
Communications and Electronics Assoc. (AFCEA International);
Intelligence and National Security Alliance (INSA International); Individual
Rights Committee of the Labor and Employment Law Section of the
Florida Bar; The ABA, Labor and Employment Section, The Broward
County Bar Assoc., Labor and Employment Section; Palm Beach County
Bar Assoc.; Boca Raton Chamber of Commerce; South Palm Beach
County Bar Assoc.; Hispanic Bar Assoc. of Palm Beach County; Cuban-
American Bar Assoc; National Assoc. of Administrative Law Judges;
ATLA; The Academy of Florida Trial Lawyers; The Florida Bar Speakers
Committee; Alliance for Marine Mammal Parks and Aquariums (AMMPA);
Aircraft Owner's and Pilots Association (AOPA); National Rifle Association
(NRA).
Alexander has served in the legislative branch of government as a
Legislative Aid for Republican State Representative Nancy Brown, in the
Kansas House of Representatives, Office of the 27th District at the
Kansas State Legislature in Topeka, Kansas.
Mr. Penalta is a former federal officer in the executive branch of the United
States government. Alexander served as a Naval Reserve Officer, LTjg,
Judge Advocate Generals Corps, (JAG), Honorably Discharged in June
1992 and is a recipient of the National Defense Medal, M-16 Rifle
Marksman Medal, Operation Desert Shield/Desert Storm for military
service during the Persian Gulf War.
Alexander has served as a Training Officer for the Offshore Sailing
Training Squadron at the United States Naval Academy (USNA) in
Annapolis, Maryland. Mr. Penalta is experienced in sailing Sloops and
Catamarans. He holds multiple American Sailing Association (ASA)
Sailing Certifications and is a United States Coast Guard (USCG)
Licensed Captain and a USCG Licensed Master with Sailing
Endorsements.
Alexander was trained by two time World Champion Frank Hawley at the
Gainesville Raceway and is licensed by the National Hot Rod Association
(NHRA) to race Super Comp Dragsters and ET Bracket Class Race Cars.
He has is presently or has in the past been a member of the NSX Club of
America, Scuderia Ferrari and Exotics Club of South Florida, the BMW Car
Club of North America, and S2k (S2000 Honda Motorsports) International.
He has participated in Pace Car activities at the Inaugural Street Race in
St. Petersburg, Florida for the Indy Racing League on behalf of S2k
International and Honda of North America. Alexander has served as a
Teen Survival Safety Instructor for BMW CCA in Palm Beach, Florida and
is proponent of educating teenage drivers on motor vehicle safety
throughout the state in public and private schools. Mr. Penalta has
attended Bertil Roos Racing School at Moroso, Indy Experience at Disney
Raceway, Richard Petty Driving Experience at Disney Raceway and
Daytona Super Speedway, Mario Andretti Racing School at Homestead
Speedway, and Penguin Road Racing School at Homestead Speedway
becoming a licensed Motorcycle Advanced Road Racer on high
performance Ducati Racing Motorcycles.
Mr. Penalta is a graduate of Boca Raton High School (1983), and the
University of Florida (B.A. 1987), and of Washburn University of Topeka,
School of Law (J.D. 1991). Washburn School of Law is best known for
the trial lawyers it has historically produced, as well as for being credited
with creating one of the first Law Clinics in the United States which later
served as a model for other law schools throughout the country. Among
its most notable graduates are the honorable former Senate Majority
Leader and past president-elect Bob Dole, and the esteemed CBS News
reporter Bill Kurtis of the popular "A&E's -- Investigative Reports." Among
the most famous cases tried by Washburn Law graduates are the class
action Dalkon-Shields case, the $10.3 billion dollar case of Pennzoil Co.
v. Texaco Inc., and the landmark United States Supreme Court case of
Brown v. Topeka Board of Education.
NOTABLE JURY TRIALS
CIVIL: Seventeenth Judicial Circuit in and for Broward County, Florida.
The plaintiff, a 29 year old commercial airline 727 pilot survived a three
impact crash of a Beech 55 Baron light twin-engine aircraft, while riding
as a passenger in the back seat. The airplane crashed due to negligence
and pilot-induced oscillation in the landing phase. Plaintiff suffered
multiple herniated disks at the hands of the defendant. The jury returned
a verdict in the amount of Three Million ($3,950,000.00) Nine-Hundred
Fifty Thousand Dollars. Alexander Penalta, Lead Trial Attorney for the
Plaintiffs.
CRIMINAL: Eleventh Judicial Circuit in and for Dade County, Florida.
Decorated for service in Beirut, Lebanon, the defendant, a 29 year old
former U.S. Marine Sniper and survivor of the Marine barracks bombing in
1983 was attacked by two patrons in July 1994 while working as security
at Solid Gold in North Miami Beach in Florida. Charged with Attempted
2nd Degree Murder, the jury returned an acquittal after a four day jury trial
in Miami, Florida in which use of deadly force at one's place of
employment was successfully asserted. Gary Ostrow and Alexander
Penalta, Attorneys for the Defendant.
ACADEMIC INSTRUCTIONAL EXPERIENCE
United States Naval Academy, Division of Professional Development,
Offshore Sailing Training Squadron; OSTS Training Officer, Annapolis,
Maryland
St. Thomas University, The Archdiocesan Catholic University of Florida,
Department of Management. Graduate Curriculum for the Masters in
Science Management Program: MAN 710 Legal of Business
Administration; MAN 712 Labor Relations and The Law. Adjunct
Professor Miami, Florida
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University of Daytona Beach, Florida, Fort
Lauderdale Area Resident Center, Division of Aeronautical Science.
Undergraduate Curriculum: AS 405 Aviation Law; BA 390 Business Law;
BA 632 Seminar in Aviation Labor Relations; BA 322 Aviation Insurance
and Risk Management: Graduate Curriculum: BA 655 Aviation Law &
Insurance; Lockheed Martin, Sikorsky Aircraft, and Pratt & Whitney -
United Technologies Rocket Propulsion Engineers: MSTM 620 The Legal
& Regulatory Environment of Business, Adjunct Associate Professor
Fort Lauderdale, Florida
Lynn University, College of Business. Graduate Curriculum for the
Masters in Business Administration Program: MBA 510 Legal Aspects
of Business Administration, Undergraduate Curriculum Business Law I
(312) and Business Law II (313). Adjunct Professor, Boca Raton, Florida
Florida Atlantic University at Boca Raton, College of Education,
Department of Educational Leadership. Graduate Curriculum: EDA 6232
Education and the Law, Adjunct Professor, Davie Campus & North Palm
Beach Campus - Davie, Florida
University of Florida, College of Health and Human Performance,
Department of Exercise and Sport Sciences, Academic Diving
Program. Undergraduate Curriculum: Open Water, Advanced Open
Water, Assistant Instructor and Instructor, Assistant Director and Adjunct
Instructor, Gainesville, Florida
in Matanzas City, Cuba and of Galecian Spanish descent. He was raised
in the American heartland in Tulsa, Oklahoma, attended law school in
Kansas and has resided in Florida for over 30 years.
Mr. Penalta is a partner and shareholder at the Law Firm of Penalta &
Stiger, P.A. and is licensed to practice in Florida and Washington, D.C.
He is a Supreme Court Certified Arbitrator fluent in English and Spanish.
Mr. Penalta concentrates his practice on representing and defending the
Business Community, Marine Mammal, Rescue and Conservation
Facilities, Non profits, Veterinarians, Entrepreneurs, Small and Medium
Business Owners and Fortune 500 Companies and Families in Civil and
select Criminal matters including but not limited to Aviation, Business
Litigation, Employment Claims, Motorsports, Watersports, Sea, Air and
Land Operations and legal proceedings at the Local, County, State,
Federal and International Level.
As a former Appeals Referee in the executive state branch of government
for the Florida Department of Labor & Employment Security, Division of
Unemployment Compensation, Bureau of Appeals, Mr. Penalta is
experienced in representing and defending businesses and former
management throughout Florida in a variety of legal issues.
Alexander served as an Adjunct Associate Professor at Embry-Riddle
Aeronautical University of Daytona Beach, Florida, Fort Lauderdale Area
Resident Center, Division of Business Administration for ten years. He
taught "Seminar in Aviation Labor Relations," "Aviation Law," and "Federal
Regulations, Ethics and the Legal System," to pilots, maintenance
personnel, aviation management and Sikorsky, Pratt and Whitney, and
former Black Ops, NASA and Russian Rocket Propulsion Engineers. He
is a licensed FAA Private Pilot and represents pilots, management and
fixed base operators.
From 1995 to 1998, Mr Penalta served as an Adjunct Professor at Florida
Atlantic University at Boca Raton, College of Education, Dept. of
Educational Leadership and taught "Education and the Law" to education
graduates regarding legal issues facing public and private sector
employees and employers. Mr. Penalta has jointly authored "OSHA
Regulations' Potential Impact on the Dive Industry." with Robert F. Millott,
Ed.D., Milledge Murphey, Ph.D., Mary Beth Horodoski, Ed.D. in the
National Journal of Underwater Education (1995).
Mr. Penalta serves as a legal advisor to several members of the Alliance
for Marine Mammal Parks and Aquariums. Alexander served as the legal
advisor to the University of Florida, College of Health and Human
Performance, Academic Diving Program; National YMCA Scuba Program-
Florida Field; U.S. Underwater Federation and the National Association
for Cave Diving. He has spoken before the Broward County Bar Assoc.,
Labor and Employment Section on "Tactics and Procedures before the
Florida Dept. of Labor and Employment Security, Div. of Unemployment
Compensation Bureau of Appeals." Alexander Penalta has been a guest
on several radio and television interviews including RADIO FIESTA,
WLVS-AM1380, Morning Show with Dante Medina & Helman Ruiz,
"Sexual Harassment & The Jury System (Spanish)".
Alexander Penalta's current and past membership activities include the
Association For Intelligence Officers (AFIO); Women in Defense (WID);
Naval Intelligence Professionals (NIP); Precision Strike Association
(PSA); American Society for Industrial Security (ASIS International);
National Defense Industrial Association (NDIA); Armed Forces
Communications and Electronics Assoc. (AFCEA International);
Intelligence and National Security Alliance (INSA International); Individual
Rights Committee of the Labor and Employment Law Section of the
Florida Bar; The ABA, Labor and Employment Section, The Broward
County Bar Assoc., Labor and Employment Section; Palm Beach County
Bar Assoc.; Boca Raton Chamber of Commerce; South Palm Beach
County Bar Assoc.; Hispanic Bar Assoc. of Palm Beach County; Cuban-
American Bar Assoc; National Assoc. of Administrative Law Judges;
ATLA; The Academy of Florida Trial Lawyers; The Florida Bar Speakers
Committee; Alliance for Marine Mammal Parks and Aquariums (AMMPA);
Aircraft Owner's and Pilots Association (AOPA); National Rifle Association
(NRA).
Alexander has served in the legislative branch of government as a
Legislative Aid for Republican State Representative Nancy Brown, in the
Kansas House of Representatives, Office of the 27th District at the
Kansas State Legislature in Topeka, Kansas.
Mr. Penalta is a former federal officer in the executive branch of the United
States government. Alexander served as a Naval Reserve Officer, LTjg,
Judge Advocate Generals Corps, (JAG), Honorably Discharged in June
1992 and is a recipient of the National Defense Medal, M-16 Rifle
Marksman Medal, Operation Desert Shield/Desert Storm for military
service during the Persian Gulf War.
Alexander has served as a Training Officer for the Offshore Sailing
Training Squadron at the United States Naval Academy (USNA) in
Annapolis, Maryland. Mr. Penalta is experienced in sailing Sloops and
Catamarans. He holds multiple American Sailing Association (ASA)
Sailing Certifications and is a United States Coast Guard (USCG)
Licensed Captain and a USCG Licensed Master with Sailing
Endorsements.
Alexander was trained by two time World Champion Frank Hawley at the
Gainesville Raceway and is licensed by the National Hot Rod Association
(NHRA) to race Super Comp Dragsters and ET Bracket Class Race Cars.
He has is presently or has in the past been a member of the NSX Club of
America, Scuderia Ferrari and Exotics Club of South Florida, the BMW Car
Club of North America, and S2k (S2000 Honda Motorsports) International.
He has participated in Pace Car activities at the Inaugural Street Race in
St. Petersburg, Florida for the Indy Racing League on behalf of S2k
International and Honda of North America. Alexander has served as a
Teen Survival Safety Instructor for BMW CCA in Palm Beach, Florida and
is proponent of educating teenage drivers on motor vehicle safety
throughout the state in public and private schools. Mr. Penalta has
attended Bertil Roos Racing School at Moroso, Indy Experience at Disney
Raceway, Richard Petty Driving Experience at Disney Raceway and
Daytona Super Speedway, Mario Andretti Racing School at Homestead
Speedway, and Penguin Road Racing School at Homestead Speedway
becoming a licensed Motorcycle Advanced Road Racer on high
performance Ducati Racing Motorcycles.
Mr. Penalta is a graduate of Boca Raton High School (1983), and the
University of Florida (B.A. 1987), and of Washburn University of Topeka,
School of Law (J.D. 1991). Washburn School of Law is best known for
the trial lawyers it has historically produced, as well as for being credited
with creating one of the first Law Clinics in the United States which later
served as a model for other law schools throughout the country. Among
its most notable graduates are the honorable former Senate Majority
Leader and past president-elect Bob Dole, and the esteemed CBS News
reporter Bill Kurtis of the popular "A&E's -- Investigative Reports." Among
the most famous cases tried by Washburn Law graduates are the class
action Dalkon-Shields case, the $10.3 billion dollar case of Pennzoil Co.
v. Texaco Inc., and the landmark United States Supreme Court case of
Brown v. Topeka Board of Education.
NOTABLE JURY TRIALS
CIVIL: Seventeenth Judicial Circuit in and for Broward County, Florida.
The plaintiff, a 29 year old commercial airline 727 pilot survived a three
impact crash of a Beech 55 Baron light twin-engine aircraft, while riding
as a passenger in the back seat. The airplane crashed due to negligence
and pilot-induced oscillation in the landing phase. Plaintiff suffered
multiple herniated disks at the hands of the defendant. The jury returned
a verdict in the amount of Three Million ($3,950,000.00) Nine-Hundred
Fifty Thousand Dollars. Alexander Penalta, Lead Trial Attorney for the
Plaintiffs.
CRIMINAL: Eleventh Judicial Circuit in and for Dade County, Florida.
Decorated for service in Beirut, Lebanon, the defendant, a 29 year old
former U.S. Marine Sniper and survivor of the Marine barracks bombing in
1983 was attacked by two patrons in July 1994 while working as security
at Solid Gold in North Miami Beach in Florida. Charged with Attempted
2nd Degree Murder, the jury returned an acquittal after a four day jury trial
in Miami, Florida in which use of deadly force at one's place of
employment was successfully asserted. Gary Ostrow and Alexander
Penalta, Attorneys for the Defendant.
ACADEMIC INSTRUCTIONAL EXPERIENCE
United States Naval Academy, Division of Professional Development,
Offshore Sailing Training Squadron; OSTS Training Officer, Annapolis,
Maryland
St. Thomas University, The Archdiocesan Catholic University of Florida,
Department of Management. Graduate Curriculum for the Masters in
Science Management Program: MAN 710 Legal of Business
Administration; MAN 712 Labor Relations and The Law. Adjunct
Professor Miami, Florida
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University of Daytona Beach, Florida, Fort
Lauderdale Area Resident Center, Division of Aeronautical Science.
Undergraduate Curriculum: AS 405 Aviation Law; BA 390 Business Law;
BA 632 Seminar in Aviation Labor Relations; BA 322 Aviation Insurance
and Risk Management: Graduate Curriculum: BA 655 Aviation Law &
Insurance; Lockheed Martin, Sikorsky Aircraft, and Pratt & Whitney -
United Technologies Rocket Propulsion Engineers: MSTM 620 The Legal
& Regulatory Environment of Business, Adjunct Associate Professor
Fort Lauderdale, Florida
Lynn University, College of Business. Graduate Curriculum for the
Masters in Business Administration Program: MBA 510 Legal Aspects
of Business Administration, Undergraduate Curriculum Business Law I
(312) and Business Law II (313). Adjunct Professor, Boca Raton, Florida
Florida Atlantic University at Boca Raton, College of Education,
Department of Educational Leadership. Graduate Curriculum: EDA 6232
Education and the Law, Adjunct Professor, Davie Campus & North Palm
Beach Campus - Davie, Florida
University of Florida, College of Health and Human Performance,
Department of Exercise and Sport Sciences, Academic Diving
Program. Undergraduate Curriculum: Open Water, Advanced Open
Water, Assistant Instructor and Instructor, Assistant Director and Adjunct
Instructor, Gainesville, Florida
COLLEEN M. STIGER, Esquire is a shareholder in the Law Offices of
Penalta & Stiger, P.A. in Boca Raton, Florida. Ms. Stiger limits her practice
to representing select individuals who have been seriously injured. Since
becoming a resident of Florida, she has been actively involved in a number
of charitable organizations.
She was honored as Soroptimist International Boca Raton/Deerfield's
"Women of Distinction" for her professional and charitable
accomplishments. She was also honored as "Boca's Best" by the Cystic
Fibrosis Foundation for being one of the most outstanding single
professionals in the Boca Raton Community for her outstanding charitable
and civic contributions to the South Florida community. She was featured in
the Sun Sentinel as an "Attorney Honored for Helping Others". Ms. Stiger
and the law firm were spot lighted on NBC in Tonya Rogers' Power Woman
Series. Ms. Stiger's family has been involved in racing and motorsports
throughout Ireland, Europe and the United States. Colleen concentrates on
automobile insurance property and injury claims. Ms. Stiger has been an
active member of the NSX Club of America, the BMW Car Club of North
America, and S2k (Honda Motorsports) International.
Ms. Stiger has Co-Chaired two Arthritis Creaky Bones Costume Balls and
Co-Chaired two Arthritis Magic of Caring Fashion Shows. She was on
the Boca Bacchanal Committee from 2002 to 2003. She served on the
Advisory Council of Broward Meals on Wheels from 1993 to 1999, the
Executive Board of Directors of Broward Meals on Wheels from 1999 to
2001, Recording Secretary 1999 to 2001, Board of Directors from 2001
to present and has been the Legal Committee Chairperson from 1999
to present. She is on the Cystic Fibrosis Leading Men committee for
2003.
From 1997 to 1999, Ms. Stiger served as the President of the Boca
Raton Alumnae Chapter of Delta Gamma Fraternity. She was a member
of the Theater Guild at the Royal Palm Festival Dinner Theater Center.
She has served on the Friends of Debbie-Rand Board of Directors for
the Boca Raton Community Hospital from 1999 to present,
Corresponding Secretary 2000 to 2001, Membership Chairperson
2001-2002, Chairperson from 2001 to 2002, Treasurer 2002, Dinner
with Friends Co-Chairperson 2001-2003, Debbie-Memorial Service
League Ways and Means from 2001 to 2002. She has also received her
100 hour pin for service at the Boca Raton Community Hospital.
Ms. Stiger is currently a member of the Florida Bar and formerly a member
of the Pennsylvania Bar. She received Certificates of Appreciation for
recognition of dedicated and distinguished service from the South Palm
Beach County Bar Association from 1997 to 1999. Ms. Stiger is a member
of the Florida Bar Association and has been on the Florida Bar President's
Speaker's Bureau since 1997 and has served as Chairperson of the
Immigration Section of the South Palm Beach County Bar Association.
She served on the Little Palm Family Theatre Annual Gala, "Give My
Regards to Broadway " Committee in 2003. She is an active member of
the Kiwanis Club of Boca Raton Sunrise since 2003. She has also
participated in walk-a-thons for the Arthritis Foundation, Broward County
Meals on Wheels, Diabetes Foundation, March of Dimes and MS.
She is an active member of GFWC Royale Woman's Club since 2002.
She co-chaired the Honor Your Doctor Luncheon Drawing and served
as the Master of Ceremonies. Ms. Stiger was an active member of the
Boca Raton Chapter of Zonta International since 1996 and has served
on the Board of Directors from 1998 to 2001as Recording Secretary,
Director and Nomination Committee in 2002, and Second Vice Present
from 2002 to present.
Ms. Stiger is a graduate of Vermont Law School (Juris Doctor 1991) and
holds a Masters in Environmental Law (LLM, 1992). She attended
undergraduate at Washington & Jefferson College with a concentration
in English & Business Administration (B.A. 1988).
Penalta & Stiger, P.A. in Boca Raton, Florida. Ms. Stiger limits her practice
to representing select individuals who have been seriously injured. Since
becoming a resident of Florida, she has been actively involved in a number
of charitable organizations.
She was honored as Soroptimist International Boca Raton/Deerfield's
"Women of Distinction" for her professional and charitable
accomplishments. She was also honored as "Boca's Best" by the Cystic
Fibrosis Foundation for being one of the most outstanding single
professionals in the Boca Raton Community for her outstanding charitable
and civic contributions to the South Florida community. She was featured in
the Sun Sentinel as an "Attorney Honored for Helping Others". Ms. Stiger
and the law firm were spot lighted on NBC in Tonya Rogers' Power Woman
Series. Ms. Stiger's family has been involved in racing and motorsports
throughout Ireland, Europe and the United States. Colleen concentrates on
automobile insurance property and injury claims. Ms. Stiger has been an
active member of the NSX Club of America, the BMW Car Club of North
America, and S2k (Honda Motorsports) International.
Ms. Stiger has Co-Chaired two Arthritis Creaky Bones Costume Balls and
Co-Chaired two Arthritis Magic of Caring Fashion Shows. She was on
the Boca Bacchanal Committee from 2002 to 2003. She served on the
Advisory Council of Broward Meals on Wheels from 1993 to 1999, the
Executive Board of Directors of Broward Meals on Wheels from 1999 to
2001, Recording Secretary 1999 to 2001, Board of Directors from 2001
to present and has been the Legal Committee Chairperson from 1999
to present. She is on the Cystic Fibrosis Leading Men committee for
2003.
From 1997 to 1999, Ms. Stiger served as the President of the Boca
Raton Alumnae Chapter of Delta Gamma Fraternity. She was a member
of the Theater Guild at the Royal Palm Festival Dinner Theater Center.
She has served on the Friends of Debbie-Rand Board of Directors for
the Boca Raton Community Hospital from 1999 to present,
Corresponding Secretary 2000 to 2001, Membership Chairperson
2001-2002, Chairperson from 2001 to 2002, Treasurer 2002, Dinner
with Friends Co-Chairperson 2001-2003, Debbie-Memorial Service
League Ways and Means from 2001 to 2002. She has also received her
100 hour pin for service at the Boca Raton Community Hospital.
Ms. Stiger is currently a member of the Florida Bar and formerly a member
of the Pennsylvania Bar. She received Certificates of Appreciation for
recognition of dedicated and distinguished service from the South Palm
Beach County Bar Association from 1997 to 1999. Ms. Stiger is a member
of the Florida Bar Association and has been on the Florida Bar President's
Speaker's Bureau since 1997 and has served as Chairperson of the
Immigration Section of the South Palm Beach County Bar Association.
She served on the Little Palm Family Theatre Annual Gala, "Give My
Regards to Broadway " Committee in 2003. She is an active member of
the Kiwanis Club of Boca Raton Sunrise since 2003. She has also
participated in walk-a-thons for the Arthritis Foundation, Broward County
Meals on Wheels, Diabetes Foundation, March of Dimes and MS.
She is an active member of GFWC Royale Woman's Club since 2002.
She co-chaired the Honor Your Doctor Luncheon Drawing and served
as the Master of Ceremonies. Ms. Stiger was an active member of the
Boca Raton Chapter of Zonta International since 1996 and has served
on the Board of Directors from 1998 to 2001as Recording Secretary,
Director and Nomination Committee in 2002, and Second Vice Present
from 2002 to present.
Ms. Stiger is a graduate of Vermont Law School (Juris Doctor 1991) and
holds a Masters in Environmental Law (LLM, 1992). She attended
undergraduate at Washington & Jefferson College with a concentration
in English & Business Administration (B.A. 1988).
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