OCALA PERSONAL INJURY - Key Persons

Brad King

Job Titles:
  • State Lawyer for the Fifth Judicial Circuit, Assistant State Lawyer, 1995 to 1999

D.R. Smith

Job Titles:
  • Inn of Court, 2003, Treasurer, 2019 - Current

David R. Ellspermann

Job Titles:
  • Clerk of the Circuit Court and Comptroller, Marion County, Florida, General Counsel and Chief Deputy, 2008 to 2016

John H. Piccin

John H. Piccin was born in Willmantic, Connecticut on January 27, 1940. He attended the University of Vienna in Vienna, Austria and graduated from Villanova University with honors in 1962. He then received a Juris Doctor degree from The University of Michigan Law School in 1965. He was admitted to the State Bar of Michigan in 1966, to the Florida Bar in 1975 and to the US District Court, Middle District of Florida. He is a member of the Academy of Florida Trial Lawyers. The Association of Trial Lawyers of America, The Marion County Bar Association and the Judicial Nominating Commission for the Fifth Judicial Circuit, State of Florida. He is also certified as a member of the Million Dollar Advocates Forum. Membership is limited to trial lawyers who have demonstrated exceptional skill, experience and excellence for achieving a verdict or settlement of $1 million or more. John married Mary Burke in 1966 and they have two children, Katherine Piccin Glynn and Timothy B. Piccin. Timothy was a Captain in the United States Air Force and an F-16 fighter pilot and now professionally flies the Boeing 777. Mary is a thoroughbred horse trainer. Education The University of Michigan Law School, Ann Arbor, Michigan J.D. - 1965 Villanova University, Villanova, Pennsylvania B.A. - 1962

Katherine Piccin Glynn

Katherine Piccin Glynn was born in Southfield, Michigan on May 29, 1969. She was a Ford Foundation Scholar at Eckerd College, from which she graduated with honors in 1991. She then graduated from St. Thomas University School of Law, was admitted to The Florida State Bar in 1995 and US District Court, Middle District in 1999. Upon graduation, she was appointed Assistant State Attorney for the Fifth Judicial Circuit. During the next four years, she gained extensive jury trial experience, mainly with white-collar crime and other felony cases.