MISSION
The mission of the CDI is to promote and facilitate the growth of diversity and inclusion in the local legal community through education, community involvement, and social engagement with and between people of varying race, color, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, ethnicity, national origin, age and mental and physical disability.
Chair(s):
- Telsula Morgan | [email protected]
- Nichole Segal | [email protected]
Committees are a great way to get involved with your local bar association, network with your colleagues and become a leader in your legal community.
- Judge Edward Rodgers Champion of Freedom Award
- Diversity Corner
- Advancing Opportunities Internship Program (AOIP)
- Road to the Bench
- Social Justice and Racial Equality
- What A Lawyer Looks Like
- January 2025 | The Civil Rights Trail: A Trip Every Lawyer Should Take
- December 2024 | How the First Amendment Saved DEI Training in Florida
- October 2024 | The Civil Rights Trail: A Trip Every Lawyer Should Take
- June 2024 | Try Someone New: Mediator Shortlists, Arbitrator Panels, and the Power of Choice as a Tool for Increasing Diversity in Dispute Resolution
- February 2024 | 2023 Diversity Summit – Navigating the End of Affirmative Action
The purpose of the campaign is to display and highlight the diversity within the Palm Beach County Bar Association. To access this campaign, please click here.
Are you interested in becoming a judge? Join the Palm Beach County Bar Association in our new Road to the Bench Academy. The Academy is a non-partisan training and mentorship program to encourage diversity on the bench. Whether you’re ready to seek a judicial seat today or in the future, the Academy aims to prepare you. Participants will receive training, courses on various topics related to the appointment and election process to become a judge. For more information regarding this program, please click here.
The Palm Beach County Bar Association’s Committee for Diversity & Inclusion will present the Judge Edward Rodgers Champion of Freedom Award at the 2025 Bench Bar Conference. To access this form, please click here.
