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Lisa Anderson was born in Gainesville, Florida, on March 5, 1970. She
attended grammar school and middle school in Bay County, Florida. In 1988,
she graduated from Bay High School. In 1994, Lisa received her Associates
Degree from Gulf Coast Community College and then transferred to American University in
Washington, DC. She graduated with a bachelor's degree in Law & Society in May 1996. Lisa
graduated from Stetson University College of Law in 1999 where she was selected for the Moot Court
Board and received awards for her oral arguments at the 1997 National Criminal Procedure Moot
Court Competition in San Diego, California, and at the 1998 Jessup International Moot Court
Competition held in Gainesville, Florida. She clerked for the Honorable Thomas Pennick, Florida
State Court Circuit Judge and the Honorable Mary Scriven, Federal Magistrate for the Middle
District of Florida. She spent a semester in Rhodes, Greece and earned credits in admiralty and
maritime law through Tulane University's International Study Abroad program. In her third
year, she worked for Carlson & Meissner providing litigation support and preparing
pretrial motions and memoranda in their civil division. Upon graduating from Stetson Law in May
1999, she was offered a position as the Judicial Staff Attorney back in her hometown of Panama City.
In 2001, she left the public sector and began practicing with Ben Bollinger where the two formed a
partnership practicing exclusively in criminal defense. She is a previous chair of the First Saturday
Legal Clinic and currently serves as Bay County's Chapter Representative to the Florida
Academy of Criminal Defense Lawyers. Lisa is a member of the National College for DUI
defense, an organization devoted to improvement of the criminal defense bar. Her defense
practice has included criminal representation on cases such as possession, trafficking, grand
theft, aggravated battery, sex offenses, violations of probation, fleeing & eluding, stalking,
DUI, and all traffic offenses.
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