Tampa, Fla. – Carlton Fields’ Tampa Of Counsel, Nicole Kibert, was elected secretary of The Florida Bar’s Environmental and Land Use Law Section during the section’s Annual Meeting on August 15, 2011. Kibert will serve a one-year term and will then assume the role of the Section’s Chair-Elect, and then Chair in 2013.

The Environmental and Land Use Section serves more than 2,000 members and affiliates through educational programs and publications.

Kibert is a certified mediator and a LEED® Accredited Professional. As a member of the firm’s Real Estate & Finance practice and the Community, Condominium and Resort Development group, she represents developers in the creation of planned communities, condominiums (mixed-use, conversions, age restricted, commercial and residential) and subdivisions with a special emphasis on projects involving sustainable development, green building, downtown and brownfields redevelopment, renewable energy generation, and historic preservation.