Porsche Shantz joined the practice of law over 30 years ago when she graduated cum laude from the University of Miami School of Law. She has spent the bulk of her multistate career as an attorney for the Supreme Court of Florida, the Florida First and Fourth District Courts of Appeal, and the Tennessee Court of Appeals and Tennessee Court of Criminal Appeals. In fact, she was the first attorney to occupy the position of Clerk’s Office Staff Attorney for the Supreme Court of Florida and helped revise that court’s internal jurisdictional training materials for other staff counsel during her role there.
She has written numerous appellate court briefs and performed complex legal research in all manner of civil and criminal appeals in those states in which she is licensed to practice. In her past roles as a career attorney for the appellate courts, she prepared countless recommendations on procedural and substantive appellate matters in all manner of civil and criminal appeals, including those involving family law, probate, insurance coverage disputes, and mortgage foreclosures.
She has served on various internal appellate court workgroups and rules commissions charged with the duty of not only maintaining the timely delivery of appellate court services, but also ensuring that the rule of law is obeyed in the delivery of said services.
She is a detail-oriented, decisive advocate who grew up in Southern California and the Pacific Northwest as the granddaughter of a German immigrant (hence the name), the daughter of an air traffic controller, and the great-granddaughter of an Appalachian moonshine runner from the days before that “illegal” endeavor became what we now know as NASCAR. While no appellate outcome can ever be guaranteed, her philosophical approach to every case is, “Do or do not. There is no try.”
