Laura Boeckman, assistant general counsel for the city of Jacksonville, has been appointed by the Florida Supreme Court to the board of The Florida Bar Foundation. Katie Fackler, associate general counsel with Baptist Health System, has been appointed by The Florida Bar Board of Governors to the Foundation’s board.

Boeckman

Boeckman will fill the remainder of a three-year term ending in 2024 that was vacated by another board member. She graduated from Indiana University School of Law in 2001 and began her career as a judicial clerk and a staff attorney with Jacksonville Area Legal Aid. She has since served as a clinical professor at Florida Coastal School of Law and as the North Florida Bureau Chief of the Consumer Protection Division of the Florida Office of the Attorney General.

Boeckman has previously chaired both the Bar’s Public Interest Law Section and its Consumer Protection Law Committee. She is a member of the Chester Bedell Inn of Court and the First District Appellate Inn of Court.

Fackler

Fackler will also serve the remainder of an unfilled term until 2025. She earned her law degree from the University of Florida Levin College of Law in 2009. Before joining Baptist Health System in 2022, Fackler spent 13 years at Akerman LLP, where she was a partner in the firm’s Bankruptcy and Reorganization department.

Fackler is the former chair of the Jacksonville Bankruptcy Bar Association and the Bankruptcy Law Educational Series Foundation.

In December 2023, The Florida Bar Foundation changed its name to FFLA. Posts prior to this date contain our former name.