The Collins Center is governed by a distinguished Board of Trustees. Our Board includes university presidents, executives of major corporations and senior professionals from throughout the state. Four former Florida governors have played significant roles in leading the Collins Center. The current members are featured on this page.
Mr. Bartel is Chairman and Managing Director for the Hamptons Group, LLC. He previously served as vice president of regulatory affairs and, before that, as vice president of corporate and external affairs, both for FPL Group's subsidiary Florida Power & Light. |
For more than 30 years, Mr. Bermont has provided financial guidance to individuals, families, institutions and not-for-profit corporations. He is a nationally respected advisor and consultant who has served his community in many capacities and has been recognized and honored with many awards for his service. |
An outspoken advocate for the free enterprise system, Mr. Bishop is the President & CEO of Barney Bishop Consulting, LLC and former president and CEO of Associated Industries of Florida, which is known as one of the most influential voices of Florida Business. |
Mr. Cantero was the first Florida Supreme Court justice of Hispanic descent and one of the youngest ever to sit on the state's highest court. In his six years on the court, he heard hundreds of appeals and issued well over 100 majority, concurring and dissenting opinions. He was named by HispanicBusiness magazine one of the top 100 Most Influential Hispanics. |
A virtual force of nature in South Florida life for years, Ms. Canton is beloved in legal, business and political circles as one of the Best Lawyers in America and among the Florida Legal Elite. |
Ms. Castor has a long and distinguished career as a public servant and educator, most notably as the president of the University of South Florida, the state's Commissioner of Education, and president and CEO of the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards. |
Mr. Collins is experienced in government, international business and start-up companies. He currently serves as the director of business development for Daniel Risk Mitigation, a Tampa-based company specializing in risk mitigation, training and security services. He is the grandson of Gov. LeRoy Collins. | Dr. Pedro |
In the latter half of the previous decade, Ebony magazine named Mr. Dotson one of the nation's most influential blacks and the Miami-Dade Chamber of Commerce named him national business leader of the year. An attorney who practices in the areas of land use, zoning and government relations, he is an executive committee member of the Alliance for Ethical Government and past board chairman of the Miami Dade College Foundation. |
Mr. Lucas has an extensive background in management consulting and technology solutions. He is the Bonita Bay Group's strategic planner and oversees all corporate operations. He was named to Gulfshore Business magazine's list of 40 people to watch in Southwest Florida under the age of 40" |
Dr. Law is president of St. Petersburg College and the former president of Tallahassee Community College (TCC). At TCC, Law became well known as an advocate for, among other things, economic and workforce development, student success and community outreach. |
As president of the League of Women Voters of Florida, Ms. Macnab works to educate voters and is an advocate for good elections policy. She was recognized by the Orlando Sentinel in 2008 and 2010 as one of the most influential people in Central Florida. |
As editorial page editor of the Miami Herald, Mr. Oglesby led a team of writers, editors and a cartoonist that determined the newspaper's opinion and positions on public-policy issues. In retirement, he is directing the Haiti News Project's effort to help Haitian newspapers recover from the 2010 earthquake. |
Ms. Baughman McLeod is the head of the Public Policy Group at Bryant Miller Olive, a Florida law firm. As Director of Public Strategy, she develops and manages the consultancy that helps clients build effective business strategies; establish political, corporate and governmental partnerships. |
Mr. Rosenkranz is a litigator and a rabbi. As regional director of the Anti-Defamation League, he combats anti-Semitism, monitors domestic extremist activity, preserves civil rights, advocates for separation of church and state issues, promotes anti-bias education, and serves as a resource for law enforcement and interfaith dialogue. |
Mr. Thomson is a partner in Hogan Lovells US LLP, a large international law firm. His practice focuses primarily on complex commercial and constitutional litigation. He has extensive experience representing clients before the U.S. Supreme Court, the U.S. Court of Appeals (11th Circuit), the Florida Supreme Court, and various state and U.S. federal courts throughout Florida. |
| Trustees Emeritus (non-voting) Jane Collins Aurell Tallahassee J. Clint Brown, Esq. Mr. Charles J. Zwick Honorable Bob Martinez *LeRoy Collins, Jr. (deceased) | |
Jeffrey S. Bartel
Peter L. Bermont
Barney T. Bishop III
Raoul G. Cantero, Esq.
Mikki Canton, Esq.
Betty Castor
LeRoy Collins III
Albert E. Dotson, Jr., Esq.
Dr. William D. Law Jr.
Deirdre Macnab
Kathy Baughman McLeod
