Mary Ann Stiles received her law degree from Antioch School of Law in 1978, a bachelor of science degree from Florida State University in 1975 and an associate arts degree from Hillsborough Community College.  She founded Stiles, Taylor & Grace, P.A. in 1982 and is the managing partner.  Stiles practices in the areas of workers' compensation, corporate, administrative, governmental and insurance law.  She has been selected by her peers as a Leading Attorney.  She represents various clients as a consultant in the legislative process and before the executive branch.

Upon becoming a member of the Florida Bar, Stiles was named vice president and general counsel of Associated Industries of Florida, representing the business community before the legislative and executive branches of government.  Stiles drafted the major rewrite of the Workers' Compensation law in 1974 and additional revisions in subsequent years, especially 1979, 1990, and 1994.  Stiles has written several books on the subject of workers' compensation.  She continues to lobby the Legislature on behalf of the business community.

Stiles has served on the Florida Supreme Court Committee on Workers' Compensation Rules of Procedure; the Department of Labor and Employment Security, Division of Workers Compensation Task Force on Claims; and the task Force of Medical Claims.  She was also appointed to serve on the Antitrust Revision Committee; the Joint Experience Rating Plans and Payroll Limitations Committee; the Workers' Compensation Insurance Special Study Committee, 1998; Governor Bob Martinez' Workers' Compensation Oversight Board, 1989, and Governor Bob Graham's Ride-Sharing Task Force, where she served as co-chairperson.

Stiles was Governor Chiles' appointee to the Workers' Compensation three-member Panel on Medical Fee Schedule to the Statewide Nominating Commission that considered appointments and reappointments of the judges of compensation claims; and Board Trustee to Hillsborough Community College.

She also served on The Florid Bar's Workers' Compensation Executive Council and The Florida Bar's Workers' Compensation Rules Committee.  She was reappointed to that committee in 1999. 

Stiles also owns the majority share and serves as chairperson for two other successful corporations.   She is also a founder and serves on the Board of Directors of Platinum Bank.  

Civic and community work includes serving as Director on the Board of the Boys and Girls Club of Tampa, past president of Tiger Bay Club of Tampa, past president of the Florida State University Seminole Club of Hillsborough County, past director on the Boards of Hillsborough Area Regional Transit Authority, and Hillsborough Community College Foundation, Hillsborough Community College and serves on the National Board of Florida State Seminole Boosters.  Stiles also served as chairperson for 1996 - 1997 on the Hillsborough Community College Board of Trustees.

Stiles is a member of the American Bar Association, The Florida Bar, the Hillsborough County Bar Association, the Association of Women Lawyers, the Florida Association of Women Lawyers, the Florida Defense Lawyers' Association and the Florida Women's Alliance.

Stiles is admitted to practice in the United States Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals, United States District Court for the Middle District and the Southern District.

You can email Mary Ann Stiles at: mastiles@countymayor.com