Nicole Saunders is a Deputy General Counsel at the Florida Department of Education. In that role, she serves as the lead attorney for the State of Florida’s Vocational Rehabilitation and the Division of Blind services programs. Nicole began her career as a Corporate Associate for a Fortune 500 fintech company. She then honed her litigation skills, first as an Assistant State Attorney, then as an associate at a law firm, where she practiced exclusively in federal court. Immediately before joining the Florida Department of Education, Nicole worked as a law clerk for a Florida Supreme Court Justice. Nicole also strives to improve the legal profession by serving as the Chair of the Minorities in the Profession Committee for the American Bar Association Young Lawyers Division, and as a CLE presenter for the Florida Bar, Lawline, Quimbee, and MilesTales Publishing. As a young lawyer, Nicole is passionate about making complicated legal concepts accessible to new attorneys.