Practice Experience

• Nancy Linnan practices primarily in the areas of environmental/land use and administrative law and government consulting. She is the Practice Group Leader of the firm's Government Law and Consulting Practice. In the growth management area, she works with developments of regional impact, comprehensive plan amendments, sector plans and local land use approvals. She also works with the Florida Legislature and agencies in policy development.
• Ms. Linnan works with state, federal and local environmental permitting. Included are water use permits, environmental resource permits, and approvals for use of state-owned upland or sovereign lands.
• Her general administrative law/government consulting activities include work before all state agencies with an emphasis on the Departments of Community Affairs, Legal Affairs, Environmental Regulation, Management Services (state procurement), Revenue (state tax), Business and Professional Regulation, the Executive Office of the Governor and the Florida Legislature.
• Ms. Linnan is the Office Managing Shareholder of Carlton Fields' Tallahassee office, and on the firm’s Executive Committee and Board of Directors.

Professional and Civic Activities

• The Florida Bar
• Chair of the Tallahassee Leon County Civic Center Authority
• Chair of the Florida Chamber Growth Management Leadership Task Force
• Board of Directors with Associated Industries of Florida and Chair, Development and Infrastructure Council
• Member, City of Tallahassee Charter Review Commission (2009)

Professional Recognition

• AV Rated by Martindale-Hubbell
• Selected for inclusion in most recent edition of Florida Trend’s Florida Legal Elite; inclusion in Legal Elite Hall of Fame as Legal Elite winner for past 5 years.
• Listed in Chambers USA Guide to America’s Leading Business Lawyers – Zoning and Land Use
• Listed in most recent edition of The Best Lawyers in America
• Listed in most recent edition of Florida Super Lawyers
• Listed in The Legal 500 (Land Use and Zoning)

BAR ADMISSIONS

• Florida

COURT ADMISSIONS

• Florida State Courts
• United States Supreme Court
• U.S. District Court, Northern District of Florida

Background

• Assistant Secretary, Florida Department of Community Affairs (1983-1985)
• Assistant Deputy Attorney General and Chief, Division of Cabinet Affairs for the Florida Attorney General (1979-1983)
• Assistant General Counsel for Governor Reubin Askew (1977-1978)
• Assistant General Counsel, Florida Department of Administration (1977)

Education

• Florida State University College of Law (J.D., with honors, 1974)
• Dickinson College (B.A., 1970)