Recognized in Ones to Watch since 2024 Gabrielle Sanandajian is a partner at Cole, Scott & Kissane, P.A. in the firm’s Tampa office.
Ms. Sanandajian graduated from the University of South Florida in Tampa, Florida where she earned a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Political Science with a Minor in Technical and Professional Writing. She later attended Barry University Dwayne O. Andreas School of Law where she earned her Juris Doctorate Degree.
During law school, Ms. Sanandajian served as a Teaching Assistant for Legal Research and Writing, then later became a Dean’s Writing Fellow. She also competed on the university’s mock trial team, where she learned and practiced trial advocacy. While in law school, Ms. Sanandajian was a law clerk for an insurance defense firm in St. Petersburg, clerked for a worker’s compensation firm in Central Florida, undertook a legislative internship under Senator Stewart, and completed an externship at the Public Defender’s Office of the Ninth Judicial Circuit. She was also a representative of the Florida Bar Young Lawyer’s Division Law Student Division, where she served as one of two representatives of her class elected by the student body.
Upon graduating from law school, Ms. Sanandajian worked at the Public Defender’s Office of the Ninth Judicial Circuit, where she gained experience in evidentiary hearings, motion practice, courtroom decorum, and trial.
