Willie E. Gary is a Senior Partner in the law firm of Gary, Williams, Finney, Lewis, Watson & Sperando. He was born in Eastman, GA. His family relocated to Canal Point, Fla. and later settled in Indiantown, Fla. After graduating Murray High School in 1967, Gary, received a scholarship to Shaw University in Raleigh, NC and received his Bachelor of Science in Business Administration in 1971. He received his Juris Doctorate degree from North Carolina School of Law in 1974. Gary returned to Florida and was admitted to the Florida Bar in 1974. As a sole practitioner he opened the first black law firm in Martin County in 1975 in a storefront in Stuart.

In 1976 the law firm grew to include an associate and two secretaries, and a second office was opened in Ft. Pierce. Today, the firm is a nationally active practice with a staff of more than 130 including attorneys, doctors, nurses, paralegals, legal secretaries, an administrator, Certified Public Accountant, public relations director, full-time investigators, general counsel and director of HR and a Captain and Co-pilot. Gary, Williams, Finney, Lewis, Watson & Sperando is headquartered in the Waterside Professional Plaza, a historic art-deco landmark on the St. Lucie River in Stuart. Gary bought the building in 1988 and executed $3 million in renovations to the property. The firm's Ft. Pierce offices are on the Intracoastal Waterway, just south of the Fort Pierce inlet.

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