Annual Meeting on Tuesday, August 10 at 7 p.m.

Dear Friends,

This is a report from the TCADP Nominating Committee and an announcement of our Annual Meeting which includes a very important speaker on the newly created Florida Innocence Commission.

Walter Moore and Sheila Meehan comprise the Nominating Committee and ask you to consider the following nominations:

Chair — Mary Anne Hoffman
Chair-elect — Juvais Harrington
Secretary – Walter Moore
Treasurer – Terry Farley Walsh

Voting will take place at the Annual Meeting on Tuesday, August 10 at 7 p.m. at the Westminster Hall of First Presbyterian Church on the corner of Adams and Park.

We are honored to have Nancy Daniels, Public Defender of the 2nd Judicial Circuit as our featured speaker.  Nancy Daniels was first elected as Public Defender in 1990 and was Florida’s first female public defender.  Ms. Daniels was recently appointed to the newly created Florida Innocence Commission.

On July 2, 2010, as a result of a petition filed by several Florida attorneys, Chief Justice Charles Canady issued an Administrative Order establishing an Innocence Commission and naming 23 members.  Former Monroe County judge, Lester A. Garringer, Jr. was named as the Commission’s Executive Director. For the past 7 years Garringer served as staff attorney to the Supreme Court Criminal Court Steering Committee and the Supreme Court Committee on Standard Jury Instructions in Criminal Cases.

Please join us on Tuesday, August 10 to vote on our slate of candidates, listen to a brief wrap-up of the past year of activities, and hear our distinguished speaker, Nancy Daniels, tell us about the work of this historic Commission.

Sheila Meehan
Walter Moore
TCADP Nominating Committee