Peter Wallace

Peter R. Wallace (partner) EDUCATION J. D., cum laude, Harvard Law School, 1979 A. B., magna cum laude, Harvard College, 1976 BAR ADMISSIONS St. Petersburg Bar Association The Florida Bar PRACTICE AREAS Real Estate Estate Planning and Probate Administration Civil, Probate and Trust Litigation Business Formation and Contracts PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Law Clerk to the Honorable Paul H. Roney, U. S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, 1979-80 Skelton, Willis & Wallace, LLP, Partner, 2000-present COMMUNITY AND PUBLIC SERVICE Member, Florida House of Representatives, 1982-1996 Speaker, Florida House of Representatives, 1994-1996 Director, Pinellas Education Foundation, 2002-present HONORS AND AWARDS Miami Herald Most Effective Member of the Florida House of Representatives, 1993 and 1994 1000 Friends of Florida Bill Sadowski Award, 1992 Florida Trend Magazine Legal Elite, 2006, 2007 and 2008 Florida Superlawyers, 2008 through 2012 Best Lawyers in America, 2013 PETER R WALLACE is a St. Petersburg native and alumnus of St. Petersburg High School, a 1976 graduate of Harvard College and a 1979 graduate of Harvard Law School. Upon graduating from law school Peter clerked for Judge Paul H. Roney on the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, and then joined a St. Petersburg law firm. He was elected to the Florida House of Representatives from a district in St. Petersburg in 1982 and served until 1996. During his final two years in office he was Speaker of the House, the only person from Pinellas County ever to serve in that post. In 1998, he ran statewide for the cabinet post of Commission of Education. Peter returned to the practice of law with the St. Petersburg firm of Skelton, Willis & Wallace, LLP, in 2000. His wife, Helen Pruitt Wallace, is a professor of creative writing at Eckerd College. In 2010, Peter was honored by the dedication of the Peter Rudy Wallace Florida Center for Teachers on the campus of the University of South Florida, St. Petersburg.