Carlton Fields is pleased to announce that Tampa associate Fentrice D. Driskell was recently elected to serve as the George Edgecomb Bar Association's First Vice President for the 2010-2011 bar year.

Driskell is a member of the Carlton Fields’ Business Litigation and Trade Regulation Practice Group. She received her A.B., cum laude, from Harvard University in 2001 and her J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center in 2004.

The George Edgecomb Bar Association (GEBA) is Tampa's largest predominately African-American voluntary bar association. Founded in 1982, in memory of the late Honorable George E. Edgecomb, the GEBA is dedicated to the promotion and recognition of African Americans within the legal profession and the judiciary. The Association's 100 members strive to maintain the ideals and principles George E. Edgecomb embodied during his brief but productive life. For more information about this organization, please visit http://www.gebaonline.com/