13 Bryant Miller Olive P.A. Shareholders Recognized by The Best Lawyers in America® and Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch®

Location: Tallahassee

Tallahassee, Fla. - August 24, 2026 - Bryant Miller Olive P.A. (BMO) is proud to announce that twelve shareholders are recognized in the 2027 edition of The Best Lawyers in America®, and one shareholder is recognized in the 2027 edition of Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch®. In addition, one shareholder has been selected as the 2027 "Lawyer of the Year" by Best Lawyers. The 2027 edition recognizes only five percent of lawyers nationwide across 150 practice areas through peer review and independent research.
Kenneth (Ken) R. Artin, Esq., is recognized by The Best Lawyers in America® for Public Finance Law. This is the nineteenth year that Artin has been recognized. Artin has been actively practicing public finance law since 1986. He has represented municipalities, counties, public and not-for-profit colleges and universities, and special taxing districts as disclosure counsel, bond counsel, and special development counsel for both general obligation and revenue obligations. Artin also has experience representing sponsors and lenders participating in public-private partnerships (P3s).

Rhonda D. Bond-Collins, Esq. , is recognized by The Best Lawyers in America® for Public Finance Law. She has been practicing law for twenty-nine years. She currently serves as the Managing Shareholder of Bryant Miller Olive's Orlando office and Co-chair of the Affordable Housing Practice Group. Her practice focuses on all aspects of tax-exempt and taxable financings. She regularly serves as lead bond counsel on affordable housing transactions and governmental finance transactions, including general obligation, electric, storm water and wastewater transactions. She also serves as bank counsel on governmental finance transactions from time to time.

Jason M. Breth, Esq. , is recognized by The Best Lawyers in America® for Public Finance Law. Breth is based in Bryant Miller Olive's Tallahassee office and serves as Co-chair of the firm's Affordable Housing Practice Group. He represents state agencies, local housing finance authorities, counties, municipalities, school districts, and special districts as bond counsel and disclosure counsel, and represents underwriters as underwriters' counsel in the financing and refinancing of capital projects. His transactional experience includes a broad range of public finance projects relating to affordable housing, education, transportation, utility, and other governmental projects financed through tax-exempt and taxable debt obligations.

Randall (Randy) C. Clement, Esq. , is recognized by The Best Lawyers in America® for Public Finance Law. This is the twenty-second year that Clement has been recognized, and he has been involved in public finance since 1982. He has extensive experience in state and local government revenue bond financings throughout Florida. Clement focuses his practice on airport, hospital, multi-family and single-family housing, electric, and water and sewer utility financings, as well as various special tax and enterprise fund financings.

Duane D. Draper, Esq. , is recognized by The Best Lawyers in America® for Public Finance Law. This is the twenty-second year he has been recognized. Since 1989, Draper has specialized in public finance, either as an attorney or investment banker. He currently serves as Chair of Bryant Miller Olive's Public Finance Practice Group and as Chair of Business Development. Draper focuses his practice on bond counsel, disclosure counsel, underwriters' counsel, and bank counsel representations for municipal and non-profit entities throughout Florida.

Lomenie (Lo) L. Etienne, Esq. , is recognized by Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch® for Public Finance Law, a recognition awarded to attorneys in their fifth through tenth years of practice. Etienne is a shareholder based in the firm's Orlando office, where she focuses on all aspects of public finance transactions, including bond, disclosure, and underwriter's counsel representation, with a particular emphasis on Community Development Districts and Affordable Housing transactions. Etienne currently serves as Co-Chair of Bryant Miller Olive's law clerk program. This is her third consecutive year being selected for inclusion in Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch®.

Denise M. Heekin, Esq. , is recognized by The Best Lawyers in America® for Employment Law for Management and Litigation for Labor and Employment matters. Heekin is the managing shareholder of the firm's Miami office and Chair of Bryant Miller Olive's Labor and Employment Practice Group. Heekin has represented management exclusively in the practice of labor and employment law throughout her entire thirty-five-year legal career.

JoLinda L. Herring, Esq. , BMO's CEO and managing shareholder, is recognized by The Best Lawyers in America® for Public Finance Law. Herring's practice is dedicated to municipal law, governmental tax-exempt financings, and blue-sky securities law, with an expertise in commercial paper programs. With over thirty years of public finance experience, she currently serves as bond counsel, disclosure counsel and underwriter's counsel to a wide range of governmental entities throughout Florida and Connecticut. Herring currently serves as a board member of the Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board (MSRB).

Leonard (Len) T. Marcinko, Esq. , is recognized by The Best Lawyers in America® for Public Finance Law. He has been recognized by The Best Lawyers in America® for the past twenty-two years. Marcinko has more than thirty-five years of wide-ranging experience dealing with federal tax issues associated with the sale and issuance of tax-exempt bonds. He has experience as a government lawyer, as a private law practitioner, and as a public finance investment banker. Marcinko led Bryant Miller Olive's representation of clients in the area of interest rate swaps and other derivative product transactions.

William (Will) A. Milford, Esq. , is recognized by The Best Lawyers in America® for Public Finance Law. Milford has more than twenty years of experience in public finance, beginning as an arbitrage rebate analyst prior to his legal career with Bryant Miller Olive. Milford focuses his legal practice on the federal income tax treatment of tax-exempt debt obligations, serving as tax counsel on a variety of governmental, 501(c)(3), and exempt facility bond financings. He advises governmental issuers and conduit borrowers to review and structure proposed new money and refunding obligations and advises issuers and borrowers on post-issuance tax compliance matters. He is actively involved in the National Association of Bond Lawyers as a frequent panelist and contributor to Tax Committee projects.

Robert (Bob) C. Reid, Esq. , is recognized by The Best Lawyers in America® for Public Finance Law. Reid joined BMO in 1989, and for nearly the past five decades, his practice has been dedicated to financial transactions and tax planning. He regularly applies his tax expertise in financings involving multi-family, single family, and public housing; hotels, convention, sports, and educational facilities; and governmental projects. Reid led the firm in tax credit financings using New Markets Tax Credits, Historic Preservation Tax Credits and Low-Income Housing Tax Credits, and more recently in the area of Opportunity Zones.

Kareem J. Spratling, Esq. , is recognized by The Best Lawyers in America® for Public Finance Law. Spratling is the Managing Shareholder of Bryant Miller Olive's Tampa Office. He has more than 20 years of public finance experience and focuses on municipal bond transactions, conduit financings, tax-exempt debt issuances, and bond validation proceedings, and is particularly skilled in the role of bond counsel on conduit bond transactions. Spratling has provided counsel on financings with a combined principal amount in excess of $20 billion throughout Florida and across the United States. He represents governmental entities, quasi-governmental organizations, higher education institutions, healthcare organizations, and conduit borrowers in financings supporting public infrastructure, healthcare and education facilities, and public-purpose projects. Spratling has also served as lead counsel in the validation of billions of dollars in bonds for public entities.

Misty W. Taylor, Esq. , has been named the 2027 "Lawyer of the Year" for Orlando Public Finance Law in addition to being recognized by The Best Lawyers in America® for Public Finance Law. The "Lawyer of the Year" Award is given to only one lawyer per metropolitan region in a particular practice area and is based on receiving the highest peer ratings in the region's practice area. Taylor has participated in hundreds of public finance transactions, including bond, disclosure, lender and underwriter's counsel representations. She focuses her practice on community development and stewardship districts, healthcare, and general local governments. She serves as Chair of Bryant Miller Olive's Special District Finance practice group. Taylor joined the firm in 2001 as a paralegal and has been an attorney in the Orlando office since 2008.

"Year after year, Bryant Miller Olive celebrates many of its attorneys being recognized by Best Lawyers," said JoLinda Herring. "It is an honor, as these recognitions are provided by legal peers and independently researched. The designations reflect the firm's depth and breadth of legal expertise."

For the 2027 edition of The Best Lawyers in America®, more than 23 million votes were analyzed, with approximately 80,000 lawyers selected for recognition in the edition. Additionally, for the 2027 edition of Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch®, more than 4 million votes were analyzed, with approximately 27,000 lawyers selected for recognition.

Lawyers on The Best Lawyers in America® list are divided by geographic region and practice areas. For selection, candidates are reviewed by their peers based on professional expertise and undergo an independent evaluation process by analysts and researchers. The entire Best Lawyers in America® list can be viewed at www.bestlawyers.com/America.

About Bryant Miller Olive
With a distinguished history of over fifty-five years serving its clients' needs, Bryant Miller Olive represents governments, businesses and agencies in legal matters relating to public finance, real estate, state and local government law, complex transactions, project finance, litigation, and labor and employment. Firm attorneys are often called upon to handle some of the most complex legal issues in the boardroom and in the courtroom. The firm has offices in Tampa, Tallahassee, Orlando, Miami, Jacksonville, Atlanta and Washington, D.C. For more information, visit www.bmolaw.com/AboutUs.