Susan W. Fox, of Counsel



Susan Fox was a founding member of Fox & Loquasto in 2003 and she managed the firm’s Tampa and Orlando offices until she retired at the end of 2017. She remains “of counsel” with the firm as she closes down her practice.

She is a Tampa native who received her B.A. from the University of Florida with honors in 1972 and her Juris Doctor from the UF College of Law with honors in 1976. After graduating, she was an Instructor of Legal Research and Legal Writing at UF. In 1977, began working as an associate at Macfarlane Ferguson & McMullen in Tampa where she became a partner/shareholder in 1983, and continued her practice there until 2003. In 2003, she started the appellate firm of Fox & Loquasto. During her service with these two firms, Susan handled over 1,250 appeals and extraordinary writs and gained comprehensive knowledge of how the appellate courts work and what they expect in briefs and legal documents and from oral argument. She became board-certified in appellate practice in 1994, the first year appellate board certification was possible. In 2017, she received the Florida Bar Appellate Practice Section’s James C. Adkins Award, the highest honor the Section bestows upon an appellate practitioner who has made significant contributions to the field of appellate practice in Florida.

Susan is a past Chair of the Florida Bar’s Appellate Court Rules Committee and Appellate Practice Section of the Florida Bar. She also served on the Appellate Practice Certification Committee, which sets certification standards for appellate lawyers and writes and grades certification exams, from 2003 to 2010. She has published many articles and lectured for numerous CLE programs on appellate practice and on gender issues.

Susan was one of the authors of Florida Appellate Practice, Sixth through Ninth Editions, published by the Florida Bar as a guide to appellate practice in Florida. The Tenth Edition will be updated by Wendy Loquasto. Susan and Wendy also published “The Art of Persuasion Through Legal Citation” and “Citation Form: Keeping Up with the Times,” both published in The Florida Bar Journal in 2010 and 2007, respectively. Susan also published “Citation Form: Getting It Right” in The Florida Bar Journal in 2000.

Susan was President of Florida Association for Women Lawyers in 2001-2002 and of the Hillsborough Association for Women Lawyers in 1998-99, after having served in numerous other capacities on each board. She has been an active member of the Hillsborough County Bar Association and co-chaired its Gender Racial Equality Committee in 1997-99. It was under Susan’s leadership that the HCBA began the annual diversity luncheon in conjunction with the Martin Luther King holiday. She received the HCBA’s " “Outstanding Pro Bono Service Award” " on multiple occasions and The Florida Bar President’s Award for Pro Bono Service in 2000. In 2004 she received an outstanding achievement award from the Florida Commission on the Status of Women.

While in Orlando, Susan was a strong member of the Central Florida Association for Women Lawyers and was instrumental in establishing the Central Florida Diversity & Inclusion Picnic. Many young lawyers, both in Tampa and Orlando have benefited from her mentorship over the years.

Susan currently resides in Buda, Texas, where she enjoys song-writing and performing and does a good bit of quilting in her spare time.

Updated 11/7/19