The North Platte Public Schools Foundation, in conjunction with the North Platte High School, announced the 2023 NPHS Distinguished Alumni Awards last week. Gulf Breeze attorney Kerry Anne Schultz (Battle) form the Class of 1994 made the cut.
Why this matters: Kerry Anne Schultz has always been a superstar.
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A North Platte High School graduate, Kerry racked up an impressive list of honors in college, including student body president, Blue Key, Phi Eta Sigma National Honor Society, All-USA Academic Team, a Rhodes Scholar Finalist, a Truman Scholar Finalist, and an Oxford Service Learning Scholar. She graduated summa cum laude from Oklahoma City University as valedictorian with a bachelor’s degree in history and political science.
At Western Michigan University’s Thomas M Cooley School of Law, Kerry was selected to the Moot Court Board. She was a semi-finalist in the intra-school Moot Court where she earned an honor for best brief. After graduation, she served as law clerk for one year to the Honorable Paul Clulo in Midland, Michigan.
She then became a member of the Florida Bar Association in 2002 and the founder of Schultz Law Group in 2020 in Gulf Breeze, Florida. Kerry is currently a member of many legal and real estate boards around Pensacola, Florida. She is a board member of Junior Achievement, Pensacola Little Theatre, Early Learning Coalition of Escambia County, a member of the Navarre Beach Area Chamber of Commerce Foundation, Gulf Breeze Rotary Club where she has served as District Governor, and The Starfish Project.
Kerry was named 2009 and 2010 Rising Star Florida Super Lawyer, and 2018 Citizen of the Year by the Gulf Breeze Rotary.
In 2020, she earned the UWF College of Business and Combined Rotary’s Ethics in Business Award. Kerry is well known as a champion for compassionate and ethical representation, and for mentoring paralegals and young attorneys.
She serves as a lecturer and contributor in seminars, and has participated in International Rotary service projects in Kenya, Africa for more than five years, assisting schools and orphanages. She was selected by Florida’s governor to serve on their Judicial Nominating Committee to select judges in their judicial circuit. Kerry is married to Paul Battle, who is a civil engineer, and they have a daughter, Ella.
