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     Marcia K. Lippincott has thirty years of experience in Florida appellate practice. She is Board Certified by the Florida Bar in Appellate Practice, and has been so certified since 1994, the first year this certification was available. The national attorney directory, Martindale-Hubbell, has rated Ms. Lippincott “Av” – the highest rating awarded. The “A” rating was awarded for her legal skills, and the “v” for her ethics. She is listed in "The Bar Register of Preeminent Lawyers". Selected appellate decisions representative of Ms. Lippincott's practice are featured on this website. She is recognized by Who's Who in American Law, Who's Who of American Women, and Who's Who in the World.

     She is admitted to practice before all Florida state courts, the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, and the United States Supreme Court. Ms. Lippincott has lectured many times throughout the state to local bar associations on the preservation of appellate error at trial, and appellate practice. She was an adjunct professor of Legal Research and Writing at the University of Central Florida for more than ten years.

     Ms. Lippincott is a 1969 graduate of the Florida State University with a Bachelor of Arts degree where her major was History. While attending FSU she was a member of the Varsity Debate Team, and she was initiated into the National Speech Honorary, Delta Sigma Rho-Tau Kappa Alpha.

     In 1973 she earned her law degree at the University of Notre Dame. She was honored with an award for her proficiency in appellate advocacy as a member of Notre Dame’s National Moot Court Team. A year of her legal education was spent abroad at the University of London. While in London, Ms. Lippincott attended the International Conference on Air and Space Law.

     As a Notre Dame student, Ms. Lippincott worked as a Legal Assistant for the National Center for the Law and the Handicapped and had the privilege to be involved in groundbreaking litigation establishing handicapped rights. After law school graduation she was selected for a staff attorney position with the Legal Advocacy Project for the Developmentally Disabled at Minneapolis, Minnesota.  She had two works published that involved her work for the disabled and with the Minneapolis legal project: 1) “A Sanctuary for People: Strategies for Overcoming Zoning Restrictions on Community Homes for Retarded  Persons,” 31 Stanford Law Review 767 (April 1979); 2) “Medicaid: Medical Assistance for the Indigent,” Minnesota Bar Association (1974).

     She is a member of the Florida State Bar, the Appellate Practice Section and the Family Law Section of the Florida Bar. Ms. Lippincott has served on the Fifth District Court of Appeal’s Committees on Mediation and the Fast Tracking of Appeals. She has previously served the state bar on the Appellate Rules Committee, and as co-chair of the Amicus Curiae Committee of the Family Law section. Ms. Lippincott is also a member of the Orange County, and American Bar Associations.

     Ms Lippincott was honored to lead the Thomas E. Whigham AIDS SuperChallenge in raising one million dollars to fund an AIDS research chair at the University of Miami in honor of Seminole County attorney Thomas E. Whigham. Mr. Whigham died after receiving AIDS from a blood transfusion.

     She has also served her community as an arbitrator and speaker for the Seminole County Community Juvenile Arbitration Program; as a member of the Board of Trustees for the Central Florida Sheltered Workshop, Inc; as a member of the City of Sanford’s Group Homes and Foster Care Facilities Advisory Committee; and as President of her former condominium association, Lake Faith Villas.