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Steven J. Uhlfelder
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Steven J. Uhlfelder is a lawyer who specializes in public and administrative law. He represents some of the nation's largest corporations.

Mr. Uhlfelder is actively engaged in organizations throughout the nation committed to improving education and encouraging sound public policy. In 2001, President George W. Bush named him to the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board; he was then reappointed for a second term ending September 2007. He served as Chair for 2004, 2005, 2006, and 2007.

Governor Jeb Bush selected Uhlfelder to serve on both the Florida Board of Governors for the state university system and the Board of Trustees for Florida State University. His work with state and local organizations is widely recognized. Mr. Uhlfelder co-chairs Florida Campus Compact, a statewide organization which promotes service on Florida college campuses. He is also a member of the South Florida Annenberg Board, an organization devoted to raising student achievement and school performance. In past years, Uhlfelder served as a member of the Taxation and Budget Reform Commission, as General Counsel for the Florida Department of Community Affairs and as Special Counsel to the Governor. He was also a member and past Chairman of the Florida Board of Regents as well as a member of the Southern Regional Education Board. As Executive Director of the state's first mandated Constitution Revision Commission, Uhlfelder helped guide a review of the Florida Constitution.

In 2004 Governor Bush named Steve as Volunteer CEO of the Florida Hurricane Relief Fund. In 1999 Uhlfelder was named by Governor Jeb Bush to co-chair the Governor's Mentoring Initiative, an effort to recruit 200,000 volunteers to work with Florida's at-risk children. For the past 12 years, Steve has been a tutor and mentor in the public schools in Leon County. Mr. Uhlfelder has also served as PTO president of the Leon County public schools his children attended. As Chairman of the Florida Children's Coalition he led the successful effort to obtain $23 million for the initial funding of the state's pre-K program. He was recognized by the Tallahassee Democrat as Volunteer of the Year in 1990. The United States Olympic Committee chose him to carry the 1996 Olympic Torch in Tallahassee. Florida A&M University presented him with a Special Recognition Award for his service to the University. Further, Florida Trend magazine chose him in 2005 as one of the 160 most influential Floridians.

Mr. Uhlfelder is the former Chair of the ABA's Standing Committee on Election Law. During the 2000 presidential post-election contest, he was an election law consultant for ABC News and Fox News Network. Mr. Uhlfelder served on the Board of Governors of the Florida Bar for four years and chaired the 1st District Court of Appeal Judicial Nominating Commission. He was elected a member American Bar Association House of Delegates.

Mr. Uhlfelder earned his B.S. in 1968 and his J.D. in 1971 from the University of Florida, where he was President of the Student Body and was selected as a member of the University of Florida's Hall of Fame.

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