Tampa attorney making a name for herself in transportation field
Florida attorney Heather Stover says she takes after her father, Art. In so many ways, actually, that she is on occasion referred to as “mini-Art.”
Like her father, who ran his own plumbing company for decades, Stover characterizes herself as a self-starter with a strong work ethic who tends to be business-minded and straight to the point.
Also, as her father did, Stover is now dedicating most of her time and attention to maintaining and growing a business. As the co-managing partner of the Tampa law firm Ogden Sullivan Stover Saar, P.A., Stover has teamed up with colleague Justin Saar to guide the more than 30-year-old firm into the future even as she works to establish herself as one of the few female leaders in trucking and transportation defense.
Stover and Saar joined the firm in 2018 and became equity partners in 2022. Tim Sullivan, with two other attorneys, founded the civil trial law firm in 1990. Stover says managing the firm has involved its share of on-the-job training, but figuring things out is almost second-nature to her. She’s been doing it most of her life.
Born on the east coast of Florida in the small town of Jensen Beach, Stover learned early to “figure things out on her own” after her mother died from breast cancer when Stover was 10. Her father raised her and her younger brother largely on his own, which wasn’t easy with a business to run as well. Stover became the cool, calm and collected child who followed the rules and got good grades. In school, she was a self-described “popular nerd,” studious and involved in a range of academic clubs while also making time to have fun with friends, a core group that, 20 years later, she speaks with daily and make up a group of her biggest supporters.
Like her father, who ran his own plumbing company for decades, Stover characterizes herself as a self-starter with a strong work ethic who tends to be business-minded and straight to the point.
Also, as her father did, Stover is now dedicating most of her time and attention to maintaining and growing a business. As the co-managing partner of the Tampa law firm Ogden Sullivan Stover Saar, P.A., Stover has teamed up with colleague Justin Saar to guide the more than 30-year-old firm into the future even as she works to establish herself as one of the few female leaders in trucking and transportation defense.
Stover and Saar joined the firm in 2018 and became equity partners in 2022. Tim Sullivan, with two other attorneys, founded the civil trial law firm in 1990. Stover says managing the firm has involved its share of on-the-job training, but figuring things out is almost second-nature to her. She’s been doing it most of her life.
Born on the east coast of Florida in the small town of Jensen Beach, Stover learned early to “figure things out on her own” after her mother died from breast cancer when Stover was 10. Her father raised her and her younger brother largely on his own, which wasn’t easy with a business to run as well. Stover became the cool, calm and collected child who followed the rules and got good grades. In school, she was a self-described “popular nerd,” studious and involved in a range of academic clubs while also making time to have fun with friends, a core group that, 20 years later, she speaks with daily and make up a group of her biggest supporters.
Bob Bivins
Bivins & Hemenway, P.A., Valrico, Florida
Bivins & Hemenway, P.A., Valrico, Florida
Before becoming an attorney, what was your first job?
"I started out working as a child at my dad’s electronic communications business, cleaning and sorting parts for $3 a week when I was in elementary school. By high school, I was working at an Italian restaurant as a busboy. My first adult jobs were working as a meter-reader for our local electric utility during my early years of college and later in the comptroller’s office at a bank in Clearwater, Florida until leaving for law school. So, I had a fairly broad swatch of work experiences before I started clerking at law firms."
"I started out working as a child at my dad’s electronic communications business, cleaning and sorting parts for $3 a week when I was in elementary school. By high school, I was working at an Italian restaurant as a busboy. My first adult jobs were working as a meter-reader for our local electric utility during my early years of college and later in the comptroller’s office at a bank in Clearwater, Florida until leaving for law school. So, I had a fairly broad swatch of work experiences before I started clerking at law firms."
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