Awards

Attorneys Erica T. Healey is recognized for the 8th year in a row as a Florida Super Lawyers Rising Star.

Super Lawyers recognizes attorney Jeanne T. Tate as as one of the top 10 attorneys in Florida (again). WOW!

Danelle D. Barksdale named a 2026 AV Preeminent Attorney

Attorney Erica T. Healey earn awards for providing pro bono services through Bay Area Legal Services.

Waves of Change Women’s Leadership Award 2026, Centre for Women

The Best Lawyers in America, 2007 - Present

Top 50: Tampa Bay Super Lawyers

Top 100: Florida Super Lawyers

Amplify Award, Gift of Adoption (National) 2025

Best Lawyers’ Tampa Family Law Lawyer of the Year

Jeanne T. Tate is recognized by her peers & Martindale-Hubbell as “AV Preeminent®”. AV Preeminent is the highest peer rating standard for the third year in a row.

Top 50: Women Florida Super Lawyers, 2015 - 2025

Top 50: Tampa Bay Super Lawyers

Top 100: Florida Super Lawyers

Best Lawyers’ Tampa Family Law Lawyer of the Year

Jeanne T. Tate is recognized by her peers & Martindale-Hubbell as “AV Preeminent®”. AV Preeminent is the highest peer rating standard for the second year in a row.

Top 50: Tampa Bay Super Lawyers

Top 100: Florida Super Lawyers

Super Lawyers recognizes Jeanne T. Tate as one of the top 10 attorneys in Florida.

Best Lawyers’ Tampa Family Law Lawyer of the Year

Jeanne T. Tate is recognized by her peers & Martindale-Hubbell as “AV Preeminent®”. AV Preeminent is the highest peer rating standard.

Top 50: Tampa Bay Super Lawyers

Top 100: Florida Super Lawyers

Attorney Robert L. Webster III is selected to serve on the Florida Bar Board Certification Committee for Adoption.

Danelle Barksdale is recognized by her peers & Martindale-Hubbell as “AV Preeminent®”. AV Preeminent is the highest peer rating standard.

Jeanne T. Tate is recognized by her peers & Martindale-Hubbell as “AV Preeminent®”. AV Preeminent is the highest peer rating standard.

Jeanne T. Tate surpasses the 40-year anniversary milestone in the practice of law.

Top 50: Tampa Bay Super Lawyers

Top 100: Florida Super Lawyers

Attorney Robert L. Webster III is honored as the Best in Tampa Bay” in the category of Adoption.

Erica T. Healey achieves Board Certification in Adoption Law.

Jeanne T. Tate named Lawyer of the Year and featured on the Cover of Super Lawyer’s Magazine.

Top 50: Tampa Bay Super Lawyers

Top 100: Florida Super Lawyers

Super Lawyers recognizes Jeanne T. Tate as one of the top 10 attorneys in Florida and Erica T. Healey as a rising star.

Erica T. Healey is invited into the prestigious Academy of Adoption and Assisted Reproduction Attorneys.

Top 50: Tampa Bay Super Lawyers

Top 100: Florida Super Lawyers

Jeanne T. Tate was given a key to the City of Tampa by Major Jane Castor for her outstanding contributions to the field of adoption.

Robert L. Webster recognized as Board Certified Attorney of the Month by the Florida Bar.

Jeanne T. Tate was also appointed to the Florida Supreme Court Judicial Nominating Commission by Governor Ron DeSantis.

Top 50: Tampa Bay Super Lawyers

Top 100: Florida Super Lawyers

Jeanne T. Tate was named Lawyer of the Year in Family Law by Best Lawyers in Florida, Tampa Edition 2019, and was recognized as a Tampa Bay Lightning Community Hero.

Top 50: Tampa Bay Super Lawyers

Top 100: Florida Super Lawyers

Jeanne T. Tate recognized by Florida Super Lawyers as one of the top 100 lawyers in the state of Florida.

Jeanne T. Tate reappointed by Governor Rick Scott to the Florida Supreme Court Judicial Nominating Commission.

The Florida Bar recognizes Robert L. Webster as Board Certified in Adoption Law.

Attorney Erica T. Healey joins the firm.

Attorney Robert L. Webster III is selected to serve as Vice President of the Board of the Florida Adoption Council.

Jeanne T. Tate, P.A. opens an office in Merritt Island, Florida to serve the east coast.

Martha Curtis is invited into the prestigious Academy of Adoption and Assisted Reproduction Attorneys.

Robert L. Webster and Jeanne T. Tate briefed an adoption case before the United States Supreme Court and prevailed!

Jeanne T. Tate receives The Tobias Simon Pro Bono Award, the highest pro bono award bestowed by the Florida Supreme Court.

The Florida Bar recognizes Steven Hurwitz as Board Certified in Adoption Law.

Governor Rick Scott appoints Jeanne T. Tate to the Florida Supreme Court Judicial Nominating Commission.

The Florida Bar recognizes Jeanne T. Tate, Danelle Barksdale, and Martha Curtis as Board Certified in Adoption Law.

Danelle Barksdale and Nicole Ward are invited into the prestigious Academy of Adoption and Assisted Reproduction Attorneys.

The Hillsborough County Bar Association (HCBA) awards its Jimmy Kynes Pro Bono Service Award to Jeanne T. Tate.

Martha Curtis receives the H.A.V.E. a Heart’s Award for Outstanding Pro Bono Service for the Kinship Care Project, a project devoted to providing legal assistance to non-parental caregivers in connection with their rights and responsibilities as caregivers, including adoption, parental consent, guardianship, and power of attorney.

Jeanne T. Tate presents the case, J.C.J. vs. Heart of Adoptions, Inc. to the Second District Court of Appeals.

Danelle Barksdale receives the Florida Bar President’s Pro Bono Service for the 13th Judicial Circuit.

Non-profit Heart of Adoptions Alliance, Inc. is born and focuses its work on international and foster care adoptions.

Attorney Robert L. Webster III joins the firm.

Jeanne T. Tate presents the landmark case, Heart of Adoptions, Inc. vs. J.A. to the Florida Supreme Court.

The HCBA awards its prestigious Jimmy Kynes Pro Bono Service Award to Danelle Barksdale.

The law firm receives the Hillsborough County Bar Association’s “H.A.V.E. a Heart” Award for Outstanding Pro Bono Service by a Law Firm.

Attorney Steven Hurwitz joins the firm.

Jeanne T. Tate, P.A. expands to Naples.

Danelle Barksdale receives the Hillsborough County Bar Association’s (HCBA) and H.A.V.E. a Heart’s Award for Outstanding Pro Bono Service for Intake Clinic.

Heart of Adoptions, Inc., is launched. Heart of Adoptions, Inc. is a fully-licensed child placing agency, and the two entities have worked closely together ever since.

Attorney Martha A. Curtis joins the firm.

Attorney Danelle D. Barksdale joins the firm.

Jeanne T. Tate starts her own law firm after many successful and distinguished years at the law firm Shackleford, Farrior, Stallings & Evans, P.A., where she became one of the firm’s first female partners in the firm’s 90-year history, and Hill Ward Henderson, where she was the firm’s first female partner. In 1997, Jeanne was invited into the prestigious Academy of Adoption and Assisted Reproductive Attorneys.