Michael J. Hauversburk
Michael J. Hauversburk has been a member of the Florida Bar since 1990. He is licensed to practice before the United State District Court, Northern District of Florida, the U.S. Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit, and the Supreme Court of the United States.
His areas of practice are commercial litigation, business/corporation law, real estate, probate, banking law, appellate practice, and DUI defense.
He hails from Gadsden County, Florida, and graduated from Florida State University, Tallahassee, with a B.A. History in 1983. He later attended the Florida State University College of Law and graduated with his Juris Doctor Degree with high honors in 1990. He received the Banking Law Book Award for the Spring Semester 1990. Hauversburk has been practicing law in the Panama City area since 1990, having a solo practice from 1994 until being appointed in 2005 to the bench as Bay County Judge by Governor Jeb Bush.
He has served as an Adjunct Professor at Gulf Community College teaching classes in Contract Law, Corporations, Partnership, and Agency Law, and General Law. He is a past board member of the Visual Arts Center of Northwest Florida and the Exchange Club of Panama City. Also, he is presently a member of Audubon Nature Institute, The National WWII Museum, the Bay County Bar Association, the St. Andrew Bay Inn of Court, and the Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies.