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DINA BUSCIGLIO SHERIDAN earned her Bachelor of Arts in 1998 from the University of South Florida Honors Program. While at USF, Dina was a member of the nationally-ranked competitive dance team, the SunDolls, as well as a five-year member and team captain of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers Cheerleaders.

While attending Stetson University, Dina was heavily involved in the Student Bar Association, intramural athletics, and service-oriented organizations on campus. She was also a Teaching and Research Assistant for several professors and was chosen to tutor other law students in legal writing as a Teaching Fellow. Dina was selected as a member of the # 1 nationally-ranked Stetson Trial Team and won the State Championship as an advocate in The Association of Florida Trial Lawyers Mock Trial Competition. Dina then graduated from Stetson University College of Law with her Juris Doctor degree and a Certificate of Concentration in Advocacy, receiving numerous community service and advocacy awards, as well as winning First Place in an intramural writing contest. She returned to Stetson's Trial Team as a coach and led the team to a State Championship in the 2004 Chester Bedell Mock Trial Competition.

Dina served as an Assistant State Attorney in the Sixth Judicial Circuit of Florida for four years, handling all levels of misdemeanor and felony offenses, with a focus on prosecuting domestic violence offenders. Dina trained state prosecutors as an instructor at the Florida Prosecuting Attorneys Association DUI School and also assisted in training future law enforcement officers in trial techniques. She is admitted to practice law in all Florida state courts and the United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida. Her primary area of practice is criminal defense.

Dina's community interests include support and involvement with the YMCA's Ophelia Project, Big Cat Rescue, and The Spring of Tampa Bay. She was recently selected from a competitive field of area business leader applicants to be a member of Leadership Tampa, an intensive program designed by the Greater Tampa Chamber of Commerce to identify and integrate future leaders in our community. Dina is a fourth-generation Tampa resident and resides in Tampa with her husband, Joshua.