Pedro Herrera, Esq.,
Associate Attorney
Sugarman & Susskind, PA

Pedro Herrera is an associate with the law firm of Sugarman & Susskind, P.A. in Coral Gables, Florida. Pedro graduated with honors from the University of Pennsylvania Law School in 2003 where he was a Senior Editor on the Journal of International and Economic Law. While completing his law studies, Pedro also earned a Certificate in Business and Public Policy from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania in 2003. He received Summa Cum Laude honors from the University of Miami where he graduated with a double major in Political Science and Philosophy. Pedro is a member of the Cuban American Bar Association and Amigos for Kids, and is in the one-year membership approval process for the Kiwanis (Little Havana Chapter), Latin Builders Association, and the Latin American Business Association.​

Bonni S. Jensen
Partner
Klausner, Kaufman, Jensen & Levinson

Bonni S. Jensen is a partner with Klausner, Kaufman, Jensen & Levinson. Since 1990, Ms. Jensen has specialized in, and served as general counsel to, municipal pension funds. Bonni Jensen has had extensive experience in pension and employee benefits law and related local, state and federal law. She has been a speaker on topics which include DROP plans, fiduciary responsibility, 457 plans, the role of collective bargaining in pension issues, pension plan administration, meeting preparation, Sunshine Law and ethics and financial disclosure laws at the annual State of Florida Police and Firefighter Pension Conferences and Trustee Schools. She has also lectured at many seminars related to pension fund topics, such as controlling disability costs in the public sector; tax issues; pension obligation bonds; securities law; and Guns and Hoses conferences. She regularly participates in the State Division of Retirement conferences and schools for municipal police and firefighter pension funds. She has been married to Steve since 1984 and they have two children, James and Sarah.

Ron Cohen
Lorium Law

Ron is the Practice Leader in Public Pensions, Labor and Employment  Law at Lorium Law in Ft. Lauderdale. Ron represents numerous public pension plans throughout Florida and also represents unions in benefit issues. Ron is the long time general counsel of the FPPTA.

Mark Floyd, Esq.
Mierzwa & Floyd, PA

Mark W. Floyd is a shareholder with Mierzwa & Floyd, P.A., representing public employee and ERISA benefit funds including pension, health and welfare, and retiree insurance funds. Prior to joining Mierzwa & Floyd, Mark was an associate at Previant, Goldberg, Uelmen, Gratz, Miller & Brueggeman, S.C., in Milwaukee, WI, where Mark also represented employee benefit funds and labor organizations.

Mark graduated from Texas A&M University in 1998 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Speech Communications. Mark received his Juris Doctor from the College of William and Mary’s Marshall-Wythe School of Law where he was a member of the school’s Moot Court team. Mark was admitted to The Florida Bar on September 23, 2003, and is a member in good standing. He is also admitted to The Wisconsin Bar and the United States District Courts for the Southern and Middle Districts of Florida and the Eastern and Western Districts of Wisconsin. He is a member of the AFL-CIO Lawyers’ Coordinating Committee, The Florida Bar’s Labor and Employment Law Section, the International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans, and the Florida Public Pension Trustees Association.

Steve Corbet, CPPT
FPPTA Education Committee

Steve Corbet was employed by the St. Petersburg Police Department for thirty-three years, retiring as a robbery detective in 2010. During his career he served as chairman and board member of the City of St. Petersburg Police Pension Board for twenty-four years. He is a member of the FPPTA Education Committee and has been affiliated with the FPPTA since its inception in 1983. He earned his bachelor’s degree in Criminal Justice at the University of South Florida.

Kenneth Harrison, Esq., CPPT
Sugarman & Susskind, PA

Ken Harrison holds a Juris Doctor Degree from the University of Miami School of Law, a Masters of Science Degree in Management from Biscayne College (St. Thomas University) and a Bachelor of Business Degree accounting major from the University of Miami. He is a founding member of the Florida Pension Trustees Association (FPPTA), currently serving as Director Emeritus and is a Certified Public Pension Trustee. In 1991 Mr. Harrison completed a 27-year law enforcement career, when he retired from the City of Miami (Florida) Police Department as Assistant Chief. For 16 years during his career in law enforcement he served as a trustee for Miami’s Police and Fire Pension Funds. Additionally, for 10 of his years in law enforcement, Mr. Harrison was active in police labor organizations at the local, state and national levels. Mr. Harrison completed over 30 years of military service in 2002 when he retired from the United States Coast Guard Reserve as Captain (Colonel). Mr. Harrison has been with the Coral Gables law firm of Sugarman & Susskind since 1997.

Pedro Herrera, Esq.,
Associate Attorney
Sugarman & Susskind, PA

Pedro Herrera is an associate with the law firm of Sugarman & Susskind, P.A. in Coral Gables, Florida. Pedro graduated with honors from the University of Pennsylvania Law School in 2003 where he was a Senior Editor on the Journal of International and Economic Law. While completing his law studies, Pedro also earned a Certificate in Business and Public Policy from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania in 2003. He received Summa Cum Laude honors from the University of Miami where he graduated with a double major in Political Science and Philosophy. Pedro is a member of the Cuban American Bar Association and Amigos for Kids, and is in the one-year membership approval process for the Kiwanis (Little Havana Chapter), Latin Builders Association, and the Latin American Business Association.​

Bonni S. Jensen
Partner
Klausner, Kaufman, Jensen & Levinson

Bonni S. Jensen is a partner with Klausner, Kaufman, Jensen & Levinson. Since 1990, Ms. Jensen has specialized in, and served as general counsel to, municipal pension funds. Bonni Jensen has had extensive experience in pension and employee benefits law and related local, state and federal law. She has been a speaker on topics which include DROP plans, fiduciary responsibility, 457 plans, the role of collective bargaining in pension issues, pension plan administration, meeting preparation, Sunshine Law and ethics and financial disclosure laws at the annual State of Florida Police and Firefighter Pension Conferences and Trustee Schools. She has also lectured at many seminars related to pension fund topics, such as controlling disability costs in the public sector; tax issues; pension obligation bonds; securities law; and Guns and Hoses conferences. She regularly participates in the State Division of Retirement conferences and schools for municipal police and firefighter pension funds. She has been married to Steve since 1984 and they have two children, James and Sarah.

Ron Cohen
Lorium Law

Ron is the Practice Leader in Public Pensions, Labor and Employment  Law at Lorium Law in Ft. Lauderdale. Ron represents numerous public pension plans throughout Florida and also represents unions in benefit issues. Ron is the long time general counsel of the FPPTA.

Mark Floyd, Esq.
Mierzwa & Floyd, PA

Mark W. Floyd is a shareholder with Mierzwa & Floyd, P.A., representing public employee and ERISA benefit funds including pension, health and welfare, and retiree insurance funds. Prior to joining Mierzwa & Floyd, Mark was an associate at Previant, Goldberg, Uelmen, Gratz, Miller & Brueggeman, S.C., in Milwaukee, WI, where Mark also represented employee benefit funds and labor organizations.

Mark graduated from Texas A&M University in 1998 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Speech Communications. Mark received his Juris Doctor from the College of William and Mary’s Marshall-Wythe School of Law where he was a member of the school’s Moot Court team. Mark was admitted to The Florida Bar on September 23, 2003, and is a member in good standing. He is also admitted to The Wisconsin Bar and the United States District Courts for the Southern and Middle Districts of Florida and the Eastern and Western Districts of Wisconsin. He is a member of the AFL-CIO Lawyers’ Coordinating Committee, The Florida Bar’s Labor and Employment Law Section, the International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans, and the Florida Public Pension Trustees Association.