Attorneys

Carole S. Bess

Carole Suzanne Bess has practiced law in Brevard County, Florida, since 1990, with a concentration on Bankruptcy. Ms. Bess completed undergraduate work at Auburn University (1986), as well as an internship for Alabama Senator Howell Heflin in the United States Senate in 1985. She was awarded a J.D. by the Cumberland School of Law at Samford University (1989).

Ms. Bess is a member of the Brevard County Bar Association, as well as the Central Florida Bankruptcy Association of Attorneys and National Association of Consumer Bankruptcy Attorneys. A member of the American Journal of Trial Advocacy, Ms. Bess authored In re Goddard, Another crack in the Shield of Qualified Immunity, published in the Spring 1990 edition of the American Journal of Trial Advocacy. She was a member of the Moot Court Board and Semi-Finalist of the Janie Shores Moot Court Competition.

Ms. Bess served as Secretary of Treasury of Phi Alpha Delta Fraternity, as well as President of the Alabama Student Bar Association. She won the Pro Bono Award for Outstanding Service for 2004 and 2007, and was the instructor for Bankruptcy Law for Paralegals at Florida Metropolitan University in 2005. She also recently presented the Nuts and Bolts of Bankruptcy Law as one of the faculty in Daytona Beach, FL, for the National Business Institute.

Today she resides in Titusville, Florida, along with her husband, Chuck, and her five children who range in age from two to 22 years old.