{"id":317961,"date":"2026-06-24T11:00:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T11:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/317961\/"},"modified":"2026-06-24T11:00:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T11:00:09","slug":"tenesia-c-hall-leads-the-family-law-section-the-florida-bar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/317961\/","title":{"rendered":"Tenesia C. Hall leads the Family Law Section \u2013 The Florida Bar"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tenesia C. Hall leads the Family Law Section<\/p>\n

\"Tenesia<\/p>\n

Tenesia C. Hall<\/p>\n

Legal Aid attorney Tenesia C. Hall was sworn in June 17 as chair of the Family Law Section, becoming the first lawyer from a nonprofit legal services organization to lead the section in its 53-year history.<\/p>\n

Hall took office at the Family Law Section\u2019s<\/a> Annual Membership Awards and Installation Banquet held on June 17 in conjunction with The Florida Bar Convention in Orlando.<\/p>\n

Hall is the family law litigation director for Legal Aid Society of the OCBA, Inc<\/a>., in Orlando. Her career began as an FFLA Summer Fellow more than two decades ago as a student at the University of Florida Levin College of Law. Hall is also the first Black Family Law Section chair.<\/p>\n

Hall has selected \u201cEmpower. Elevate. Excel.\u201d as her theme for the 2026-27 Bar year. The theme aims to “give members the tools and training needed to strengthen their practice and serve Florida\u2019s families; raise the standard of family law statewide through collaboration with the judiciary, leadership development and innovative CLEs; and celebrate excellence in advocacy, professionalism and service to Florida\u2019s families.”<\/p>\n

Section events this Bar year will include:<\/p>\n

Leadership Retreat & Fall Meetings, August 25-30 in Charlotte Harbor<\/p>\n

Out-of-State Retreat, October 13-16 in New Orleans<\/p>\n

Marital & Family Law Review Course (with AAML), January 20-23 in Kissimmee<\/p>\n

Live Guardian ad Litem CLE, February 18-19 in Ft. Lauderdale<\/p>\n

In-State Retreat, March 17-21 in Islamorada<\/p>\n

Executive Committee members for the 2026-27 are Chair-Elect Andrea Reid of The Reid Law Group in Boca Raton; Treasurer Michelle Klinger Smith\u00a0of Florida Keys Family Law; Secretary Trisha P. Armstrong of Sasser, Cestero & Roy in West Palm Beach; and Immediate Past Chair Aimee C. Gross of the Law Offices of Aimee Gross in Ft. Lauderdale.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tenesia C. Hall leads the Family Law Section Tenesia C. Hall Legal Aid attorney Tenesia C. Hall was…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":317962,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-317961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=317961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317961\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/317962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=317961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=317961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}