LAW OFFICES - Key Persons

Christina Green Rankin

Job Titles:
  • Attorney
  • Member of the Board of Directors of the YMCA of the Suncoast
  • President of the Rotary Club of East Lake Sunrise
Christina Green Rankin is a past treasurer and member of the Board of Directors of the Clearwater Bar Association. She is also serving as a member of the Board of Directors of the YMCA of the Suncoast, as a Board Member and past president of the Rotary Club of East Lake Sunrise, and as a member of the Pinellas County Estate Planning Council. In addition, she is a member of the American Cancer Society Estate Planning Operating Committee, the Ruth Eckerd Hall Planned Giving Committee, the Financial Counseling Service for Morton Plant Mease Foundation, and the Suncoast Hospice Planned Giving Advisory Council. As President of the Rotary Club of East Lake Sunrise, Christina Green Rankin received recognition as the District small club President of the Year, the Club was honored as the medium sized District Club of the Year, and Rotary International awarded it the prestigious Presidential Citation and Changemaker awards. During her leadership tenure with the Clearwater Bar Young Lawyers Division, Ms. Rankin worked on a number of initiatives to positively impact the community. She acted as the chair of the lawyer-student mentor program "Legal Eagles Homework Help," as a co-chair for "Holidays in January" for at-risk youth, and as the chair of the Clearwater Bar Judicial Reception to honor our local judiciary. Christina Green Rankin was also designated to represent the organization at the Florida Bar YLD Affiliate Outreach Conference from 2004 through 2008, during which time the Clearwater Bar was awarded multiple statewide awards, including Outstanding Bar Leadership and Member Service Project for the Judicial Reception and Public Service Project Grant for Legal Eagles Homework Help. A Clearwater native, Christina Green Rankin joined The Law Offices of Richard D. Green in 2003. She works in the areas of wills, trusts, and estate planning, guardianships, real estate, probate and trust administration, and corporate law. Christina Green Rankin is a member of the Board of Directors of the Clearwater Bar Association and is a past president of the Clearwater Bar Association Young Lawyers Division. Education Christina Green Rankin was a National Merit Scholar and attended the University of Florida on a full academic scholarship. She graduated with honors from the Fisher School of Accounting in May of 2000, and graduated Magna Cum Laude from the University of Florida Levin College of Law in May of 2003. While in law school, she earned four "book awards" for her best-in-class efforts in Estates and Trusts, Fiduciary Administration, Income Taxation of Estates and Trusts, and Legal Drafting. She also served as a staff attorney summer law clerk with the 8th Judicial Circuit Probate Court.

Richard Green

Job Titles:
  • Attorney
  • Education
  • Member of the Board of Directors for the Financial Counseling Service for Morton Plant Mease Foundation
  • Member of the Rotary Club of Clearwater
  • Owner of the Law Offices of Richard D. Green
Richard Green is the owner of the Law Offices of Richard D. Green, which he founded in 1982. Mr. Green is a past president of the Pinellas County Estate Planning Council, a past president of the Pinellas Center for the Visually Impaired, now know as Lighthouse of Pinellas, and a member of the Board of Directors for the Financial Counseling Service for Morton Plant Mease Foundation. Richard Green has been an active member of the Rotary Club of Clearwater for the past 27 years, and is a past Secretary of the Club. Education In 1975, Richard Green graduated with honors from the University of Florida College of Law where he had been the Title Standards Editor of the University of Florida Law Review. He then practiced law for two years in Jacksonville with a firm dealing primarily with real estate, but returned to the University of Florida in 1977 to obtain his Masters of Law in Taxation and to work as a Legal Writing Instructor. Practice Areas Richard Green works in the areas of wills, trusts, and estate planning, guardianships, real estate, probate and trust administration, taxation, and corporate law.