Mary Ellen Winkler is the Assistant Executive Director with the St. Johns River Water Management District. In this role, she oversees the work of the District’s Divisions of Water Resources, Water Supply Planning and Assessment, Infrastructure and Land Resources, and Basin Management and Modeling. She also provides oversight for the District’s Real Estate Services office and Chief Resilience Officer.  Ms. Winkler has been with the District since 1999 and most recently served as General Counsel. Prior to that, she served as an Assistant, Senior Assistant and Deputy General Counsel. During her time with the District, she has received several awards for her service to the agency. While with the Office of General Counsel, her primary areas of practice have included consumptive use and environmental resource permitting, minimum flows and levels and water supply planning. Ms. Winkler has also represented the District in numerous cases before the State of Florida Division of Administrative Hearings. A native of Brevard County in Florida’s Space Coast, Ms. Winkler graduated with high honors from the University of Florida College of Law where she was awarded the Order of the Coif and Order of the Barrister. She previously graduated summa cum laude with a Bachelor of Science in Engineering from the University of Central Florida and also earned a Master of Engineering in Environmental Engineering from the University of Florida where she was a U.S. Department of Energy Applied Health Physics Fellow.