Harrison LLP

Estate Planning & Trust Administration

Partner

S. Dresden Brunner has practiced law in Florida for 28 years and managed her own law firm for 21 years. She has experience with large national and international law firms as well as a trust and estate boutique law firm.  She authors law review articles and articles for The Florida Bar Journal and lectures on trust and estate issues to Florida lawyers, financial advisors, and accountants. She is AV rated by Martindale-Hubbell Peer Review. Dresden has been selected by her peers to be included in the Best Lawyers in America listing since 2013. She has been recognized as a Florida Super Lawyer since 2021 for her excellence exhibited in the practice of law. Nominated by her colleagues for her commitment to her profession, community, and peers, she was recognized with The Rebecca Vaccariello Service Award in 2022 and was chosen as a Leader in the Law 2016 by the Florida Association for Women Lawyers and as the 2018 Woman Lawyer of the Year by the Collier County Women’s Bar Association.  

Dresden serves on the Executive Committee of The Real Property, Probate and Trust Law Section of The Florida Bar. In 2021, she received the William S. Belcher Lifetime Professionalism Award and in 2010, she received the Section’s Rising Star Award. Dresden served as the editor-in-chief of the Section’s magazine, ActionLine, for which she received the Section’s 2007 Annual Service Award for dedicated and significantly outstanding service to the Section.   

Dresden is past chair of the Collier County Bar Association’s Trust and Estate Section and served on the Board of Directors of the Collier County Women’s Bar Association for four years.  She has participated in the Michael R.N. McDonnell Inns of Court and is an award-winning speaker in Toastmasters International and has served on the Planned Giving Committee for the Naples Shelter for Abused Women & Children.  She was a founding director of the private school, The Christian Classical Academy of Naples. Additionally, she has volunteered her legal talents through the Legal Aid Service of Collier County and the Florida Attorneys Savings Homes program.  

The Florida Bar; The Real Property, Probate & Trust Law Section, Executive Committee Member

Collier County Bar Association; Trust & Estate Section, Past Chair

Collier County Women’s Bar Association, former Board Member

American Inns of Court, Michael R.N. McDonnell, Naples, Florida Chapter

Naples Shelter for Abused Women & Children; formerly on Planned Giving Committee

The Christian Classical Academy of Naples, Founding Director

The University of Dayton, Dayton, Ohio, J.D., summa cum laude

Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, Kentucky, B.A., summa cum laude

Phi Eta Sigma National Honor Society

Sigma Tau Delta English Honor Society

ACTEC Florida Fellows Institute, Class IV graduate