PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

JoLinda Herring serves as the firm’s Managing Shareholder and is a member of Bryant Miller Olive’s Public Finance practice group. JoLinda Herring joined Bryant Miller Olive as a law clerk in 1994. Upon admission to The Florida Bar in 1996, she began as a practicing attorney with the firm and today she is the Co-Chair of the firm’s Public Finance Group.

Ms. Herring’s practice is dedicated to municipal law, governmental tax-exempt financings and blue sky securities law, with an expertise in commercial paper programs. Ms. Herring has a specialty in representing pooled programs. She currently serves as Bond Counsel to the Sunshine State Governmental Financing Commission and was also instrumental in creating the Florida Municipal Loan Council and the Florida Rural Utility Financing Commission and currently serves as bond counsel to both entities.

She has served as bond counsel, disclosure counsel and underwriter’s counsel to various governmental entities including Palm Beach County, Broward County, Miami-Dade County, Leon County, Jackson County, Escambia County, Brevard County, the City of Tallahassee, the City of Miami, the City of Ocala, the City of Panama City Beach, and numerous other governmental entities across the State of Florida, State of Connecticut and State of Louisiana.

She is a member of NABL and currently serves as Chair of the NABL Bond Attorney’s Workshop Steering Committee. She is listed in the Municipal Bond Attorneys’ section of The Bond Buyer’s Municipal Marketplace. She graduated from Florida State University College of Law in 1996. Ms. Herring also received an M.B.A. in Finance with honors from Vanderbilt University in 1987.