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Who We Are

Mission

The Lee County Association for Women Lawyers (LCAWL) actively promotes and supports the advancement of women within the Lee County legal community. LCAWL promotes women’s opportunities and rights by enhancing the visibility of women in the legal profession, the local and state judiciary, and in the Lee County community at large, by creating and maintaining supportive networks among women in the legal and business professions.

We are the local chapter of the Florida Association of Women Lawyers, FAWL.

 

Message from the President

Through the LCAWL, we are devoted to recognizing women’s accomplishments in the legal field and providing our members with outstanding continuing education opportunities, and networking events.

We aim to stay true to this mission while bringing innovation within these areas as well – always keeping you informed of any updates or advancements made here at LCAWL.

LCAWL’S DIVERSITY, EQUITY & INCLUSION POLICY

The Lee County Association for Women Lawyers is committed to fostering, cultivating, and preserving a culture of diversity, equity, and inclusion.

Our members are the most valuable asset that we have. The collective sum of our individual differences, life experiences, knowledge, inventiveness, innovation, self-expression, unique capabilities, and talent are the foundation of our organization.

We embrace and encourage our members’ differences in age, color, disability, ethnicity, family or marital status, gender identity or expression, language, national origin, physical and mental ability, political affiliation, race, religion, sexual orientation, socio-economic status, veteran status, and other characteristics that make our members unique. We will make every effort to implement and enforce this policy in our organization. 

Our History

The Lee County Association for Women Lawyers (LCAWL) is a local branch of the Florida Association for Women Lawyers (FAWL), an organization that was founded in 1951 with the goal of propelling women lawyers into economic, social, and leadership spheres of power. As a local FAWL chapter, LCAWL actively promotes and supports the advancement of women in the Lee County legal community.

LCAWL is devoted to actively promoting the advancement of women in the legal profession and furthering the common interests of its members by encouraging camaraderie and membership.

​LCAWL is committed to issues concerning our legal community, particularly the challenges women attorneys may face. LCAWL seeks to promote women’s opportunities and rights by enhancing the visibility of women within the legal profession, the local and state judiciary, and within the Lee County community at large, by creating and maintaining supportive networks among women in the legal and business professions.

Past Presidents

  • 2022-2023 - Maritrini Soto Garcia
  • 2021-2022 - Tiffany Pereira
  • 2020-2021 - Alexis Barkis
  • 2019-2020 - Andrea Pleimling Smith
  • 2018-2019 - Dawn Maselli
  • 2017-2018 - Kayla Richmond
  • 2016-2017 - Liridona Sinani
  • 2015-2016 - Sarah E. Spector
  • 2014-2015 - Theresa Daniels
  • 2013-2014 - Danielle Zemola
  • 2012-2013 - Kelly Fayer
  • 2010-2012 - Brooke Martinez
  • 2008-2010 - Noelle Melanson
  • 2006-2008 - Denise Wheeler
  • 2005-2006 - Hon. Josephine Gagliardi
  • 2003-2005 - Laurie Hannan Anton
  • 2002-2003 - Hon. Carolyn Delizia Swift
  • 2000-2002 - Hon. Josephine Gagliardi
  • 1998-2000 - Vera Bergermann