A Lakeland realtor and a prominent Tampa attorney are in Orlando this morning for interviews before a Board of Governors committee, which will decide this afternoon whether they should serve on USF's board of trustees.

Realtor Walter “Gene” Engle, a former USF trustee; and Harold Mullis, president of the Trenam Kemker law firm, are among several nominees  being interviewed today for various state university trustee boards.

Engle, a lifelone Polk County resident, Engle, has deep ties to USF, having served on the Lakeland Campus Master Planning Steering Committee and the USF Foundation board.

Mullis (at left), a former visiting lecturer at Stetson Law, is a founding member of Trenam Kemker.