Brooke J. Bowman

Professor Brooke J. Bowman primarily teaches Research and Writing I and II, but she has also co-taught the Pre-1L Perspectives (P1P) Workshop (for admitted students) with Professor Adams and Elder Law Seminar with Professor Morgan. Professor Bowman is also the coordinator of the Scholarly Writing Series program. In the summer of 2026, she taught the Lawyering Fundamentals course.

Professor Bowman is the Director, Moot Court Board, and she has coached or co-coached many of Stetson's moot court teams that have won state, regional, national, and international competitions, as well as many best brief and best advocate awards. She also serves as a volunteer brief evaluator for several national moot court competitions.

Since fall 2013, she has been a member of the ABA Competition Committee, specifically, a member of the National Appellate Advocacy Competition (NAAC) subcommittee, and she has chaired the NAAC subcommittee in 2015–2016, 2017–2018, 2020–2021, and 2024–2025. As a member of the NAAC subcommittee, she is one of four professors who host six regional championships and a national final every year. 

And starting in fall 2024, Professor Bowman joined her Stetson colleague Professor Kelly Feeley as one of the co-chairs of the ABA Competition Committee. As co-chairs, Professor Feeley and Professor Bowman oversee the running of all four of the ABA competitions—Client Counseling, Arbitration, Negotiation, and NAAC. Professor Bowman has also hosted other moot court competitions on behalf of not only Stetson, but the NYC Bar Association and the Tax Section of The Florida Bar. She has also hosted a variety of dispute resolution competitions on behalf of the ABA.

Professor Bowman co-edited The Scribes Manual for Law Review Editors, with previous Stetson Dean, Darby Dickerson, published by Carolina Academic Press.  In addition, she authored one of the chapters of the book, “The Editorial Adventure.” In conjunction with the book, Dean Dickerson and Professor Bowman (and other colleagues at Scribes) have hosted the annual National Conference for Law Review Editors to benefit editors of student-edited law reviews and journals and their faculty advisors.

Professor Bowman is a member of the Board of Directors of Scribes: The American Society of Legal Writers and currently serves as Treasurer. In the past, she served as the Chair of the Scribes Law Review Award Committee and a member of the Scribes Best Brief Award Committee. In addition, she has served as a member of the Board of Editorial Advisers of Bryan A. Garner’s The Redbook: A Manual on Legal Style, for the second, third, and fourth editions. And she is the Registrar for St. Pete Masters, a masters swim team.