Alana Brenner was appointed Orlando City Clerk by Mayor Buddy Dyer on June 1, 2004. Ms. Brenner also serves as the Mayor’s point person on policy concerning issues of homelessness. Prior to her appointment, Alana was a practicing attorney for 19 years. She is a 1982 graduate of the University of Maryland and a 1985 graduate of the Marshall Wythe School of Law at the College of William and Mary in Virginia. Alana currently serves as a past chair of the Community Leadership Council of the Howard Phillips Center for Children and Families, immediate past chair of the Family Selection Committee for Habitat for Humanity of Greater Orlando, and a member of the Board of IDignity, Inc. She has previously served as a Junior Girl Scout Troop leader, Chair of the Consumer Protection Law Committee of the Florida Bar and of the Edgewater High School Foundation, President of the College Park Neighborhood Association and as a member of the Judicial Nominating Commission for the Ninth Judicial Circuit, the Executive Council of the Orange County Bar Association, and the Board of Trustees for the Legal Aid Society.