Dawn Marie Buchanan:
CLASS OF 1986
Venice High SchoolClass of 1986
Venice, FL
Stetson University - LawClass of 1998
St. petersburg, FL
University of South FloridaClass of 1991
Tampa, FL
Venice Junior High SchoolClass of 1982
Venice, FL
Garden Elementary SchoolClass of 1980
Venice, FL
Dawn Marie's Story
Life
Bios are for Dawn and Ed Buchanan. For Ed keep reading on down the page.
For Dawn : After Graduation I went to University of South Florida in Tampa and after many drinks finally graduated with a B.A. in Sociology, Criminology, and Child Pyschology. Having no clue what to do I went to work for the Sarasota County State Attorney's office as a Legal Assistant until I figured out that I should be making the big bucks and went to Stetson University School of Law. Graduated Law school in 1998 (with the help of a few friends) and got married to a great guy, Eddie Robert Buchanan, at the law school. I went to work for a great non-profit legal aid agency in Daytona Beach and became the Managing attorney of the Firm in just six years. Now I am living in Venice again and have own law office there as well as in Bradenton. Have 1 daughter Darian
For Ed:
I am presently married and living in Venice, FL. I am doing great and still love to hunt and fish and play in the woods. I have five children. My daughter Darian was born 5/4/15 With my wife Dawn Marie married 18 years. I am presently on disability for an injury to my back. Gives me more time to fish. My wife is great and you can read about her above.
School
Dawn: After Graduation I went to USF in Tampa. I graduated (after drinking excessively) in 1991 with a triple major in Criminology, Sociology and Child Psychology. I went to work for the Sarasota County State Attorney's office for 5 year before deciding I wanted to pratice law for myself. I went to Stetson Univerity College of Law in St. Petersburg and graduated (with the help of a great roommate and then my new husband) in 1998, despite spending the last month of college in the hospital. I passed the bar the first time out and then went to work practicing Domestic Violence Family Law in Daytona Beach for Central Florida Legal Services then Community Legal Services of Mid-Florida, where I became the Managing Attorney of the Daytona Office and the Leade...Expand for more
r of the Family Law Unit. (which means I am poor). I then in February of 2006 got the chance to come back to the West Coast where after working as the Managing Attorney for Gulfcoast Legal Services, Inc, in Bradenton, Florida., I moved back to Venice and opened my law firm here. I have one daughter Darian born 5/4/15 and I have four step children ages 9-16 (two boys and two girls). I love my job. I love my husband and daughter and life is great even being poor.
College
Dawn: I graduated in 1991 from the college of Criminal Justice. I went to work for the Sarasota County State Attorney's office and then decided to go to Law School. I graduated from Stetson Law School in St. Petersburg in 1998 and began working for Central Florida Legal Services in Daytona Beach, Florida as a Domestic Violence Family Law attorney. In 2004 I became the Managing Attorney for Community Legal Services' Daytona Beach office and the Head of the Family Law Unit. In February '06 I moved to Bradenton and became the Managing Attorney of Gulfcoast Legal Services' Bradenton office. I am married since 1998 and although I have one daughter Darian born 5/4/15. no children of my own I have four step-children. I also have six dogs and a cat (or in other words a zoo).
Workplace
I presently work for myself and Bay Area Legal Services. Prior to that I was the Managing Attorney for Gulfcoast Legal Service in Bradenton. Prior to this position I worked for the company for seven years and I love every day of it, called Central Florida Legal Services and later Community Legal Services, Inc. I worked in Daytona Beach, Florida. CLSMF was a not for profit law firm that helps indigent people resolve legal problems. GLS is the same type of organization. I primarily establish Injunctions for Protection for women who are abused by their spouse or significant other, and then help them either get divorced or establish paternity to obtain custody, limits on visitation if necessary and child support.
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