There are two candidates on the ballot in The Florida Bar board of governors elections for the 4th Judicial Circuit’s seat on the Young Lawyers Division board of governors.
Jennifer Braunstein is an associate litigation attorney at Murphy & Anderson.
She received a J.D. from the University of Florida Levin College of Law on a full academic scholarship. While in law school, Braunstein was president of the Florida Trial Team, a teaching assistant for trial practice and an intern at the State Attorney’s Office.
While on the trial team, she and her teammates won the National Championship at the 2019 Georgetown Law White Collar Crime Competition. Braunstein also won Best Overall Advocate at the 2018 Georgetown Law White Collar Crime Competition.
Before law school, she received a bachelor’s from the University of Florida and taught accelerated summer courses on trial advocacy and law in collaboration with Stanford University Law School.
Since graduating, Braunstein has taught evidence at the Levin College of Law as a guest lecturer and continues to assist the Florida Trial Team.
Braunstein volunteers as a mentor with the Jacksonville Bar Association’s Ribault High School Young Lawyers program and coaches the Jacksonville University College of Law Trial Team.
Katherine Weaver is an associate attorney with Wicker Smith O’Hara McCoy & Ford.
During law school at Florida State University College of Law, Weaver was a certified legal intern at the State Attorney’s Office of the 2nd Judicial Circuit, where she maintained a caseload and conducted eight jury trials.
Weaver was a member of the FSU Law Trial Team and competed in the 2022 Buffalo-Niagara Mock Trial Competition in Buffalo, New York. She was a 1L, 2L and 3L representative for FSU Law’s Student Bar Association, administrative editor for the Journal of Land Use & Environmental Law and executive editor for the Journal of Transnational Law & Policy.
She was a law student representative with the Tallahassee Bar Association Young Lawyers Division and received a distinguished service award for completing more than 40 hours of pro bono work during law school.
Visit https://www.floridabar.org/the-florida-bar-news/2026-yld-board-of-governors-candidates-platform-statements/ to read each candidate’s platform statement.
The online ballot is open at https://member.floridabar.org/CPBase__custom_login?startURL=%2F. Ballots must be received by 11:59 p.m. EST on March 15.