Martha W. Barnett is a retired senior partner in the law firm of Holland & Knight. Her primary areas of practice were administrative, governmental law and public policy.

Ms. Barnett has extensive associations in the American Bar Association and The Florida Bar. She is president of the American Bar Endowment for 2014-2015. She was president of the American Bar Association in 2000-2001. She also served as the chair of the American Bar Association House of Delegates, the first woman to serve in this position.