Bernardo, John R.

Bonnie A. Berns, a native New Yorker, graduated from New York University, where she achieved the honor of Phi Beta Kappa and received the Founder's Day Award for high scholastic achievement. Ms. Berns graduated from Antioch School of Law in Washington, D.C. in June 1977. In 1978, she started her own practice in Naples, Italy where she practiced until 1980.

Then Ms. Berns moved to Florida, where she worked for a Daytona firm before opening her own practice in 1985 in Palm Coast, Florida. After only one year in Palm Coast, Ms. Berns' firm grew so rapidly that she added a partner and had a partnership law practice for eleven years.

In June, 1996, she moved her practice to the Tampa Bay area where she practiced for ten years in both Federal and State Courts. In December, 2006, Ms. Berns relocated back to the greater Daytona Beach area to serve Volusia, Flagler, St. John's and Duval Counties. Ms. Berns continues to serve the Tampa Bay area as well.

Bonnie A. Berns is a member of the Florida Bar, the Florida Association for Women Lawyers, Florida Employment Lawyers Association and the Volusia, Flagler and St. John's County Bar Associations. She was named one of the Outstanding Young Women in America in 1983. From, 1985 until 1986, she was appointed Vice Chair of the Florida Bar Committee on the Elderly, and was a member of the Committee from 1985 until 1991. From 1986-1995, she served as a member of the Florida Bar Committee on Support Enforcement. Ms. Berns was President of the Volusia Flagler National Organization for Women from 1981 until 1991. She was the Founder and President of the Holocaust Educational Center for Volusia and Flagler Counties, Inc. Ms. Berns was also on the Board of the Flagler County Domestic Abuse Shelter. For many years, she was on the Florida Bar Family Law Legislative Committee. From 2001 through 2005 Ms. Berns served on the Individual Rights Committee of the Florida Bar. Ms. Berns is also a Florida Supreme Court Certified Circuit Civil Mediator and a Federally Certified Mediator. She's a member of the Florida Academy of Professional Mediators.