FMB town attorney resigns from office
Fort Myers Beach Town Attorney Anne Dalton recently announced she will be resigning from her position in assisting the Town Council in a legal capacity. She will continue counseling the the Town in transition issues over a necessary reasonable time period, according to a letter she sent to council members.
“I’m concluding my services and giving the council as much time as they need to replace me,” Dalton said about her open-ended resignation. “I’m hoping to help council members however they want.”
Dalton said she wanted to re-focus her practice, which is in downtown Fort Myers. She has lived and worked in the city since receiving her Florida Bar license in 1990. She opened her current law firm in 1994. She is also licensed in New York and Pennsylvania.
“I’m going to be doing affordable estate planning for lower-income people,” she said. “I just really felt committed to the public sector. I want to head in another direction.”
Dalton’s tenure with the Town lasted five years with the fifth anniversary on April 4, 2010. She began in the interim basis when her long-time predecessor, Richard Roosa, was dismissed.