About Kirsten
Kirsten Dunton took a steady path into law. She earned a B.A. in Government from the College of William and Mary in 1989 and a J.D. from Wake Forest University School of Law in 2000. Those academic stops set the stage for a practice that moves between public service, teaching and private work.
Her early career included work in private firms before she appears in roster entries for Spears & Gary in 2010. In 2013 she joined Children’s Legal Services as a senior lawyer, a role that placed her on the front lines of child welfare and related court proceedings. In 2016 she launched Dunton Law, operating as owner and managing attorney, and in 2019 she took a lawyer position with Gray Law. She served as a guest lecturer at the University of Miami School of Law in 2020, turning courtroom experience into classroom material.
Dunton is admitted to practice in Florida and North Carolina and is also admitted to the bar of the U.S. Supreme Court. Her time at Children’s Legal Services involved representation in juvenile and family matters and participation in administrative hearings and state court proceedings. In private practice she has handled a range of matters for individual clients, moving between litigation and client counseling as cases required.
Outside case work she has engaged in professional and mentoring activities. She is a member of the William H. Stafford Inn of Court and has been listed there since 2019. Since the same year she has served as a mentor for Tallahassee Women Lawyers, pairing newer attorneys with experienced practitioners. Her guest lectures at the University of Miami drew on those practical experiences and on issues that arise frequently in trial practice and client advocacy.
The arc of her career shows an attorney comfortable in both institutional settings and solo practice. She has alternated roles in public service and private firms, and she has moved between representing individual clients and explaining law to students. She currently practices at Gray Law and is admitted to practice in Florida, North Carolina and before the U.S. Supreme Court.
