Ceci Culpepper Berman
Board certified in appellate practice, Ceci focuses her practice on complex commercial appeals and has a proven track record of winning high-stakes, bet-the-business cases. Her experience also includes bankruptcy, family law, and land use appeals. Ceci regularly speaks and writes on these and other appellate topics.
Before joining Brannock Humphries & Berman, Ceci was a shareholder with the statewide law firm Fowler White Boggs, P.A., now Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney, P.C., where she served on both the Writing Committee and the Associate Evaluation Committee. A leader in the Florida Bar, Ceci is a past Chair of the Appellate Practice Section and is the current Vice Chair of the Civil Rules of Procedure Committee, having also previously served on the Appellate Court Rules Committee.
Ceci is also an active participant in the local community and bar. She has served as Chair of the Hillsborough County Bar Association’s Appellate Practice Section, as a Barrister in the Cheatwood American Inn of Court, and as a longtime volunteer with the Junior League of Tampa. Ceci is a graduate of Leadership Tampa and Leadership Tampa Bay. She earned her B.A. with honors from the University of Florida and her J.D. from Georgetown Law.
- Tampa Magazine, Top Lawyer in Tampa for Appellate Practice, 2017-2020
- Litigation Counsel of America, Peter Perlman Service Award, 2016
- Florida Super Lawyers, Top 100 Lawyers in Florida, 2016 -2020
- Florida Super Lawyers, Top 50 Women Lawyers in Florida, 2014-2020
- Florida Super Lawyers, Top 50 Lawyers in Tampa Bay, 2014 & 2016-2020
- Florida Super Lawyers, 2013-2020
- Florida Super Lawyers, Rising Star, 2009-2012
- Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers for Business, 2013-2020
- Best Lawyers in Business Edition 2016, Women in the Law, Florida: Appellate Practice
- Advocate, Order of Certus, Litigation Counsel of America Honorary Appellate Order
- Florida Trend's Legal Elite, 2010 & 2011, 2014-2020
- Florida Trend's Legal Elite, Up & Comers, 2007 & 2008
- Martindale-Hubbell AV Preeminent Rating
- Tampa Bay Business Journal, Up & Comers, 2010
- Gulf Coast Business Review 40 Under 40, 2006
Tampa, Florida 33606-1308
