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Nine civic leaders were honored at the Dec. 1 Champions of Equality reception at Miami’s Bank of America Tower. The event, co-sponsored by SAVE (Safeguarding American Values for Everyone), helped celebrate Miami-Dade’s Human Rights Ordinance prohibiting discrimination based on sexual orientation .
Photography by Jill Kahn
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Kirk Arthur, field director of SAVE Dade; Frank Castro, a Regents Bank vice president; and Jesse Brooks, a management consultant. |
Seth Gadinsky, managing partner of Gadinsky Real Estate, Liebe Gadinsky; and Miami Beach attorney and family mediator Elizabeth F. Schwartz. |
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Rachel Greer; Evelyn Greer, a Miami-Dade School Board member; state Sen. Gwen Margolis; and David Lawrence Jr., former publisher of the Miami Herald. |
Georg Ketelhohn, an attorney with Siegfried Rivera Lerner De La Torre & Sobel; Judd Goldberg, a lawyer with Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Nicholson Graham; and Frank J. Kruszewski, an agent with Gary Hennes Realtors. |
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Miami-Dade Circuit Judges Mark King Leban and Scott Bernstein. |
Juan Talavera, chairman of SAVE Dade; Nancy Wallman of Macy’s; and Jeff Ronci, marketing director for Miami-Dade School District. |
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Representing the United Way of Miami-Dade, Tamara A. Klingler, Arthur Hernandez and Juan Urquiola. |
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Consultant Stanley K. Shapiro; Barbara M. Carey-Shuler, an honoree and former Miami-Dade Commissioner; and Miami-Dade Mayor Manny Diaz. |
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Roxanne Tebo, education director of the Hope Center; Joe Peña, Miami Dade College’s director of federal relations; Richard C. Milstein, an attorney with Akerman Senterfitt; and Olga Golik of the Citrus Health Network. | |
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The Beacon Council, Miami-Dade’s economic development agency, recently honored companies that have relocated or expanded in Miami-Dade in the past two years. Companies recognized included Telemundo Television Studios, Kraft Foods Latin America, American International Underwriters, Caixa Galicia and PGI Group International. The Italian Trade Commission also was recognized.
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Gianfranco Colognato, Italy’s consul-general in Miami; Carlo Ferrari, a member of the Italian Trade Commission; and Miami-Dade County Mayor Carlos Alvarez. |
Barry Johnson, president/CEO of the Greater Miami Chamber of Commerce; and Vincent Croce, senior property manager for Blue Capital Management, owner of the Bank of America Tower, the site of the event. |
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Angel Medina Jr., chairman of the Beacon Council; and Aina Juliol, president of PGI Group International. |
Frank R. Nero, president/CEO of the Beacon Council; and Don Browne, president of Telemundo. |
Retiring Circuit Court Judge Miette K. Burnstein was honored by the Broward County Trial Lawyers Association during a recent cocktail party and dinner .
Photography by Melanie Bell
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Judge Miette Burnstein and Robert C. Rogers Jr., with Bohannon Rogers Aronson & Pacella and president of the trial lawyers group. |
Julie Hager, a Fort Lauderdale solo practitioner, and Circuit Court Judge Ronald J. Rothschild. |
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Steven Jaffe of Aronovitz Trial Lawyers and Bruce Hecker, executive vice president of Mellon United National Bank in Fort Lauderdale. |
Nichole S. Pacella of Bohannon Rogers Aronson & Pacella, Broward Circuit Court Judge Leroy H. Moe and Broward County Court Judge Ginger Lerner-Wren. |
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Jonathan M. Pavsner of Kelley Uustal, the group’s president-elect, Jacquelyn S. Holden of Krupnick Campbell Malone Buser Slama Hancock Liberman & McKee and Broward Circuit Court Judge Jeffrey E. Streitfeld. |
Mathew D. Weissing of The Weissing Law Firm, Jamie J. Finizio-Bascombe with Finizio & Finizio and Sheldon Schlesinger from the Law Office of Sheldon Schlesinger. |
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William Laswell with Mediar in Fort Lauderdale, 4th District Court of Appeal Chief Judge Mark E. Polen, Walter ‘Skip’ Campbell Jr. of Krupnick Campbell Malone Buser Slama Hancock Liberman & McKee, and Jay Cohen of Grossman Roth. |
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