Distinguished
Accredited Estate Planners®
  
Award received November 2007
Dennis A. Calfee
University of Florida

Dennis A. Calfee is a Professor of Law at the University of Florida, Levin College of Law in Gainesville, Florida. Dennis majored in accounting at Gonzaga University. After a B.B.A. in 1968, he earned his J.D. from Gonzaga's College of Law in 1972. While at Gonzaga he worked part-time for the accounting firm of Brajcich and Loeffler and then the Old National Bank Trust Department.

After obtaining his law degree, Dennis clerked for the Honorable Dale Green on the Washington State Court of Appeals. He received his Master of Law degree in Taxation form the University of Florida College of Law in 1975 and was invited to remain as an interim professor for one year. Professor Calfee is now in his 32nd year of teaching law there.

Professor Calfee is a co-author of "Federal Estate and Gift Taxation." Professor Calfee has taught at Beijing University in China, Leiden University in the Netherlands and the University of Montpellier in France. Nineteen times, he has journeyed to Taiwan to teach for the Ministry of Finance in their Academy of International Taxation. Professor Calfee teaches courses in federal estate, gift and generation-skipping transfer taxation and income taxation of estates and trusts and serves as the faculty advisor to the Florida Law Review.

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