Ana Cristina Maldonado is the current Chair of The Florida Bar’s ADR Section and a member of the Mediator Ethics Advisory Committee. Certified by the Florida Supreme Court in Circuit Civil, County, Dependency and Family mediation and qualified as an arbitrator, Cristina has trained over 400 new mediators. She mediated full time between 2012 and 2023, with the 15th Judicial Circuit ADR Office, her own mediation firm and as a panel member of Upchurch Watson White and Max. Recently, Cristina joined the faculty at Nova Southeastern University’s Shepard Broad College of Law.