David G. Tucker Email & Phone Number

Jacksonville, Florida Area

• Tries administrative hearings and arbitrations; tried dozens of administrative actions (including licensing, background screening, personnel appeals, public assistance fair hearings, and union arbitration practice) to agency final order; Represented agency in appeals, including All Saints Early Learning and Community Care Center v. DCF, 145 So. 3d 974 (Fla. 1st DCA 2014); Presiding Officer in administrative hearings not heard before Administrative Law Judges; Recommended order affirmed with opinion in Sanders v. DCF, 118 So. 3d 899 (Fla. 1st DCA 2013)• Legal counsel for regulation and licensing of programs in substance abuse and mental health; foster care licensing; and child care regulation. • Manages lawyers and administrative assistants; represents, advises, and interacts with client teams including members varied as to race, gender, age, economic status, religion, disability, and gender identity• Teamed with management and union to ensure compliance with applicable state and federal ethics, employment, and civil rights laws, including ADA, FLSA, Title VII, FMLA, and collective bargaining agreements; worked to resolve conflict, and avoided the need for arbitration

Jacksonville, Florida Area

• Taught Administrative Law, using federal Administrative Procedures Act as a baseline for students to understand concepts of adjudication, rule-making, due process, and judicial review as applied to actions of administrative agencies.

Tallahassee, Florida, United States

• Specialized in local government finance practice including home rule, infrastructure financings, and intergovernmental investment trusts for county surplus funds and short-term liquidity; Identified as Nationally Recognized Bond Counsel in The Bond Buyer’s Municipal Marketplace relevant editions (the “Red Book”) • Advised counties and school districts on implementing school concurrency; Collaborated with planners and other experts to develop impact-based methodologies for new development to contribute capital costs for educational impacts

Pensacola, Florida, United States

• General Counsel to County Commission of urbanized county of 300,000 • Crisis and emergency management including legal and decisional support to elected officials for financial misconduct by County Comptroller that threatened county’s ability to pay current expenses; hurricane threats and cleanup; federal criminal and regulatory investigations of county solid waste facility • Rebuilt in-house legal office to fourteen legal and paralegal professionals. Attorneys I promoted or recruited to my staff became, throughout Florida: one judge, four city attorneys, three county attorneys, and first-ever female president of Pensacola Country Club • Significant reported decisions include Frankenmuth Mut. Ins. Co. v. Magaha, 769 So.2d 1012 (Fla. 2000)

• Attorney for 1992 Florida Senate Reapportionment Committee.• Assisted in federal litigation in which legality of Florida Senate redistricting plan was upheld by United States Supreme Court, Johnson v. DeGrandy, 512 U.S. 997 (1994). • Staff attorney for senate president Gwen Margolis

M.S., Public Policy And Management

Degree earned through Center for Financial and Management Studies (CEFIMS) at University of London School of Oriental and African Studies.

J.D., Law

Activities and Societies: President University Student Senate; Honors, legal research and writing; Phi Delta Phi legal fraternity

A.B., Medieval Studies, Political Science

Activities and Societies: Men's Glee Club (Vice President); Sigma Phi Society; Interfraternity Council (Vice President)