6 One of Us
Ponte Vedra Recorder · November 12, 2015
Where are you from originally?
I grew up here in Jacksonville. I lived in town, San Jose. I
went to Wolfson High School. I’m a surfer, so I moved to the
beach as soon as I got out of high school. I’ve been here in
Jacksonville Beach ever since.
Where did you attend college?
I went to the University of North Florida and got a degree in
business. I started out in the construction field. My father was
president of a big construction company, so I started out after
high school at his company. My first job was carrying sheetrock
on a construction job downtown. I was in school at the time;
worked full-time. And then I ended up liking the construction
work and became a carpenter and started building houses and
I ended up owning a carpentry. Then I got my general contractor’s license and started contracting and building houses.
Where did you go to law school?
In the early 2000s, I went to school at the Florida Coastal
School of Law and got my law degree to be a construction attorney. I graduated in 2006 and got a job right away with a big
law firm as a construction lawyer. Then in 2008, that company
closed the entire construction department, so they let the lawyers go in the construction section of the firm.
I had an interesting journey from there. By happenstance, I
started doing some criminal defense cases. I had don R6