Tracy S. Carlin is Board Certified in Appellate Practice by The Florida Bar.  She is also listed in the Martindale-Hubbell Law Directory and has earned that publication's highest rating  for ethics and legal ability.

Tracy retired from the full time practice of law as of January 1, 2007, to fulfill a lifelong dream of an early retirement.  She and her husband, John Kremer, are moving to Wyoming, which will be their home base for world travels and Tracy's new passion for songwriting.  She maintains her affiliation with the firm on an of-counsel basis.

Tracy received her undergraduate degree from the University of Florida, with honors, in 1985, where she was a member of the Golden Key and Phi Kappa Phi Honor Societies.  In 1988, Tracy graduated with honors from the University of Florida College of Law, where she was inducted into the Order of the Coif.

 After graduating from law school, Tracy began her career as an associate in the commercial litigation department of the Jacksonville law firm of Commander, Legler, Werber, Dawes, Sadler & Howell, P.A.  In 1991, Commander, Legler merged with the national law firm of Foley & Lardner.  At the time of the merger, Tracy's practice was largely focused on trial work in complex commercial cases, but by then, she had already discovered her desire to focus her practice entirely on appellate law.  By 1998, when Tracy became a partner in Foley & Lardner's litigation department, she had met the criteria for board certification in appellate practice and had narrowed her practice almost exclusively to appellate cases. 

 During her career with Foley & Lardner, Tracy handled complex commercial, medical malpractice, dependency and termination of parental rights, criminal, bond validation, family law, and other types of appeals in both the state and federal courts.  Tracy has appeared in or consulted on appellate proceedings in every district court of appeal in Florida, the Supreme Court of Florida, the Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, Eighth, Tenth, Eleventh, and D.C. Circuit Courts of Appeals, and the Supreme Court of the United States.  She has nearly forty published decisions to her credit and has appeared in or consulted on well over one hundred appeals.

Tracy left Foley & Lardner in January of 2003 to form Mills & Carlin with John S. Mills and Rebecca Bowen Creed.  The move from Foley & Lardner to Mills & Carlin allowed Tracy to handle a broader range of appeals with greater flexibility with respect to fee structures than is permissible in a large, national law firm.

Up until her retirement, Tracy was very active in the legal community in Jacksonville and throughout the state.  Tracy was the founding chair of the appellate practice section of the Jacksonville Bar Association in 2000.  During that same year, she was the Chair of the Florida Association for Women Lawyer's Amicus Curiae Subcommittee.  For a number of years, Tracy was a member of The Florida Bar Appellate Section's Civil Appellate Practice Committee.  After that Committee was dissolved, Tracy became a member of the Appellate Practice section's CLE Committee, and is now that committee's chair.  Tracy served by appointment on The Florida Bar's Appellate Practice Certification and CLE Committees.

 Tracy is remains committed to public service.  She was named the pro bono attorney of the year for the Fourth Judicial Circuit's Guardian Ad Litem Program in 1995 and 1996, when she was also named the pro bono attorney of the year for Guardian Ad Litem for the entire State of Florida.  In addition to her continuing work for Guardian Ad Litem, Tracy has handled matters pro bono for Jacksonville Area Legal Aid, Inc., Jewish Family Services, and individuals who needed legal assistance, but who did not qualify for legal aid.