Tallahassee Women Lawyers

08/07/2026

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🌟Don’t forget to participate in FAWL’s new PASSPORT Program and take advantage of this exciting initiative! Earn a passport stamp each time you attend a qualifying FAWL event hosted by a chapter other than your own or a statewide FAWL event. We can’t wait to see all the stamps you collect while connecting across chapters and engaging with the amazing women of FAWL statewide!

08/04/2026

THIS THURSDAY! 🎒STUFF THE BACKPACK for PACE🎒

Join us again as we STUFF THE BACKPACK with back-to-school supplies for Pace Center for Girls! This event was such a smash last year that we couldn’t miss the opportunity to get together again for laughs, snacks & drinks, and that new-notebook smell.

Grab a ticket or bring $35 of school supplies, or use the QR code to view Pace’s wishlist directly. Drinks, small bites, and desserts provided. Hope to see you there!

📅 August 6, 2026
🕠 5:30-7:30 pm
📍 Raymond P. Sittig Hall, 301 S. Bronough Street
🎟️https://square.link/u/mOzA5tck

Sittig Hall is located on the first floor of the Citizens Centre building in Kleman Plaza. The entrance is immediately to the right of Harry's Restaurant. Ample parking is available in the Kleman Plaza parking garage and on-street.

07/30/2026

IN ONE WEEK:🎒 STUFF THE BACKPACK for PACE!! 🎒

Join us again as we STUFF THE BACKPACK with back-to-school supplies for Pace Center for Girls! This event was such a smash last year that we couldn’t miss the opportunity to get together again for laughs, snacks & drinks, and that new-notebook smell.

Grab a ticket or bring $35 of school supplies, or use the QR code to view Pace’s wishlist directly. Drinks, small bites, and desserts provided. Hope to see you there!

📅 August 6, 2026
🕠 5:30-7:30 pm
📍 Raymond P. Sittig Hall, 301 S. Bronough Street
🎟️https://square.link/u/mOzA5tck

Sittig Hall is located on the first floor of the Citizens Centre building in Kleman Plaza. The entrance is immediately to the right of Harry's Restaurant. Ample parking is available in the Kleman Plaza parking garage and on-street.

07/28/2026

Congratulations to Kandace Rudd on being named the Elder Law Section’s
2025-2026 Member of the Year!

07/27/2026

Congratulations to Melissa VanSickle for earning the Florida Bar President’s
Award of Merit at the Florida Bar Convention!

07/24/2026

Our latest slate of board members got down to business immediately at our annual Board Retreat. After discussing the exciting events we have planned for the coming year, we got into some serious pickleball 🏓🏓🏓🏓🏓

Next year this could be YOU! Join TWL today and do more than just like-subscribe-follow: https://fawl.org/general/register_member_type.asp

Empowered women empower women – be a part of it!

07/23/2026

🎒 STUFF THE BACKPACK for PACE!! 🎒

Join us again as we STUFF THE BACKPACK with back-to-school supplies for Pace Center for Girls! This event was such a smash last year that we couldn’t miss the opportunity to get together again for laughs, snacks & drinks, and that new-notebook smell.

Grab a ticket or bring $35 of school supplies, or use the QR code to view Pace’s wishlist directly. Drinks, small bites, and desserts provided. Hope to see you there!

📅 August 6, 2026
🕠 5:30-7:30 pm
📍 Raymond P. Sittig Hall, 301 S. Bronough Street
🎟️https://square.link/u/mOzA5tck

Sittig Hall is located on the first floor of the Citizens Centre building in Kleman Plaza. The entrance is immediately to the right of Harry's Restaurant. Ample parking is available in the Kleman Plaza parking garage and on-street.

07/22/2026

Tallahassee Women Lawyers is proud to introduce our newly-inducted President, Tiffany Cruz, and 2026-2027 Board of Directors. Our induction ceremony was held earlier this month. Sworn in by Judge Ashenafi-Richardson and welcomed by the judges (and former judges) in attendance, our board members are so honored to lead this fantastic organization! And thank you again to our fabulous sponsor, Lexitas.

07/21/2026

⚖️FSU Undergraduate Mock Trial Judges Needed!

The Undergraduate Mock Trial team at FSU is searching for judges for the 2026 tournament season. Sign up today!

Register here: https://forms.gle/n63vMSCUBfBbbYEC8

Sunshine State Showdown (High School)
Saturday, September 19th
Round 1
9am - 12am
Round 2
2pm - 5pm
Sunday, September 20th
Round 3
9am - 12pm
Round 4
2pm - 5pm

Capital City Invitational (Collegiate)
Saturday, November 14th
Round 1: 9am - 12am
Round 2: 2pm - 5pm
Sunday, November 15th
Round 3: 9am - 12pm
Round 4: 2pm - 5pm

07/19/2026

July 19th ----> 19th Amendment

The first day of the Seneca Falls Convention began in 1848. Organized mostly by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott, the event is considered the first women's rights convention, and attracted over 300 attendees, including the formerly enslaved reformer Frederick Douglass.

The group voted on a set of resolutions—the Declaration of Sentiments—written by Stanton. She modeled her Declaration after Thomas Jefferson’s Declaration of Independence, asserting that “all men and women are created equal,” a provocative statement at that time.

The Declaration of Sentiments called for a long list of women’s rights: access to education and job opportunities, more power within the church, and the right to control one’s own property and money. Woman suffrage (a woman’s right to vote) was the most controversial resolution. The suffrage clause was the only one that attendees did not unanimously adopt. While the vote was not originally the main goal of the reformers, suffrage became central to the women’s rights movement in the 1860s.