Practice Experience

• Kathy McLeroy has extensive experience representing mortgage holders, property owners, title insurers and real estate developers in real property disputes and mortgage foreclosures.
• Ms. McLeroy has experience representing creditors in disputes with debtors in all forums, including state court, federal court, bankruptcy court, as well as in arbitration proceedings.
• She has significant trial experience, as well as extensive experience in arbitration, alternative dispute resolution and mediation.
• Kathy McLeroy has extensive experience dealing with consumer credit statutes.
• Ms. McLeroy has attained certification from the Supreme Court of Florida as a Circuit Civil and County Court Mediator. In addition, she has been certified to serve as a mediator in matters pending before the United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida and the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Middle District of Florida.

Professional and Civic Activities

• The Florida Bar
  Standing Committee on Professionalism (2003-present)
    Hoveler Judicial Award Committee, Chair (2004-2005)
    Law Faculty Award Subcommittee, Chair (2006-2007)
    Continuing Legal Education Committee (1992-2002)
    Vice Chair (2001-2002) Grievance Committee 13A (1999-2002), Chair (2000-2002)
  Standing Committee on Pro Bono's Subcommittee on Pro Bono Participation Study
  Business Law Section, Member
• American Bar Association
  Business Law Section
    Pro Bono Committee, Vice-Chair
  Standing Committee on Pro Bono, Business Law Section Liaison
  Commission on IOLTA, Member
• Hillsborough County Bar Association, Inc. (1991-present)
  Corporate Banking and Business Law Section, Chair (1993-1994)
  Law Week Steering Committee (1996-1998)
• The Tampa Bay Bankruptcy Bar Association, Board of Directors (1994-1998), Treasurer (1996-1998)
  Continuing Legal Education Committee, Chair (1994-1996)
• The Florida Bar Foundation, Board of Directors (1999-present), Executive Committee (2000-present), President (2008-present), President-Elect (2007-2008), Treasurer (2006-2007), Secretary (2004-2006)
  Ad Hoc IOTA Rules Committee (2000-2001), Chair (2000-2001), Development Committee (2003-2007), Chair (2003-2007), Vice Chair (2001-2003)
  Investment Committee (1999-2002)
  Legal Assistance to the Poor Grant Committee (1999-present), Chair (2007-present)
  Grant Program Committee (2003-present), Chair (2007-present)
  IOTA Operations Committee (2005-present)
• American Bar Foundation, Fellow
• Bay Area Legal Services, Inc., Board of Directors (1994-1999, 2002-2007), President (2007, 1998), President-Elect (2006, 1997), Treasurer (1995, 1996, 2005)
• Chief Justice's Advisory Committee for the 2009 Tobias Simon Pro Bono Awards (appointed by the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Florida)
• Ferguson-White Inn of Court, Barrister (2004-2008), Master (2008-present)
• The University of Tampa Board of Counselors, Steering Committee (1994-present), Chair (2001-2002), Vice Chair (2000-2001)
• The University of Tampa Board of Trustees (2001-2002)
  Athletics Committee (2002-present)

Professional Recognition

• AV Rated by Martindale-Hubbell
• American Bar Foundation Fellow
• 2005 Recipient of The Florida Bar President’s Pro Bono Service Award
• 2004 Service and Recognition Award from the University of Tampa National Alumni Association
• 2004 Recipient of the Hillsborough County Bar Association’s Jimmy Kynes Award for Outstanding Pro Bono Service
• 2001 Outstanding Pro Bono Service as Client Intake Volunteer from the Hillsborough Attorney Volunteer Efforts Program
• 2001 President’s Award for Excellence from The Florida Bar Foundation
• 2001 Carlton Fields Pro Bono Publico Award Recipient
• Martin K. Burks Scholar (teaching scholar), Washington & Lee University School of Law
• Sparks Scholar, Washington & Lee University School of Law
• Phi Kappa Phi
• Omicron Delta Kappa

BAR ADMISSIONS

• Florida

COURT ADMISSIONS

• United States Supreme Court
• U.S. Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit
• U.S. District Court, Middle District of Florida
• U.S. District Court, Southern District of Florida
• Florida State Courts

Background

• Ms. McLeroy was a Commercial Loan Officer and a Consumer Loan Officer with Commercial National Bank (now Regions Bank) in Shreveport, Louisiana prior to attending law school.
• She has served as an adjunct professor at The University of Tampa where she taught Advanced Business Law.

Education

• Washington & Lee University (J.D., cum laude, in 1990)
  Member, Washington and Lee Law Review
  Burks Scholar, Sparks Scholar
• Louisiana State University (M.B.A., summa cum laude, 1986)
  Named Outstanding MBA Student 1986
• Louisiana State University (B.S., magna cum laude, Finance, 1982)
  Recipient of University Award in Finance 1982 (given to one student annually)