John Kevin Griffin is a 49 year old trial lawyer and a member of the Florida Bar its Trial section, the NTSB Bar Association, the Association of Trial Lawyers of America and its aviation and admiralty sections. He practices in both State and Federal Courts and he is admitted to practice in the United States Supreme Court.

John Kevin Griffin was born in 1953 and raised in the Southwest Side of Chicago in Hickory Hills, Illinois the seventh of eight children in an Irish Catholic family; he graduated from Saint Patricia Grade School in 1967, attended St. Bede Academy, Peru, IL from 1967-68, then Mount Carmel High School, Los Angeles, CA from 1968-69, and then transferred to and graduated from Saint Laurence High School, on the southwest side of Chicago in 1971. He worked briefly after high school as a parts counterman for a Pontiac automobile dealership, a mill worker at a steel mill, a plumbers helper, a janitor at the Palmer House Hotel in Chicago, a millwright, a dockworker for a major trucking firm, a stage hand in Memphis, Tennessee, and as an intake officer for the Juvenile Court in Memphis, Shelby County, Tennessee.  He obtained his first college degree in 1979 where he pursued a liberal arts course of study which led to a Bachelor of Arts from Memphis State University.

In his senior year at Memphis he was recruited by the United States Marine Corps to become a Marine Naval Aviator. In 1980 he received his officer commission after graduation from the Marine Corps Officer Candidate School in Quantico, Virginia. He transferred to Naval Flight School where he was designated a Naval Aviator in 1982. His first aircraft assignment was the Boeing CH-46 helicopter. After two successful tours of sea duty John Kevin Griffin opted for reserve status to train and pursue a law career. In 1989 he graduated from DePaul University College of Law in Chicago, Illinois. Following graduation he moved to Pensacola, Florida and joined the select Marine Corps Reserve as a squadron pilot at Naval Air Station New Orleans in Belle Chase, Louisiana. During this period he qualified in the Marine Corps twin engine Bell UH-1N Huey Gunship.

In 1989 the National Museum of Naval Aviation commissioned him to organize and execute a salvage operation for submerged airplanes on the bottom of Lake Michigan. In October 1990 his salvage crew recovered a World War II Douglas Dauntless (SBD) dive bomber in 130 feet of water; that airplane is now fully restored and on display at the National Museum of Naval Aviation in Pensacola, Florida. On December 1, 1990 the Marines ordered him back to active flying duty for the Gulf War.  John Kevin Griffin and a C-5 transport plane full of Marine Corps Helicopter Squadron personnel with several Huey Gunships in the cargo hold landed in the Saudi Arabian desert in the middle of the night on New Years Eve 1990.  He flew missions into Kuwait and was decorated with the Air Medal. After the war he was promoted to the rank of Major and returned to Pensacola, Florida to practice law. 

While living and practicing law in Pensacola John Kevin Griffin was a member of the Inns of Court, the Escambia Santa Rosa County Bar Association, the Navy Flying Club, the Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 706, the Cathedral of the Sacred Heart Catholic Church, the Holy Name Society, and a board member of Sacred Heart School.

Today, the Griffin law office is located across from the courthouse in Fort Pierce on Florida's beautiful Treasure Coast.  He guarantees his clients competent, courteous, and timely legal services utilizing email and the internet to communicate with a nationwide client base.  A team concept is utilized in serious injury cases where expert witnesses and other attorneys are consulted.  The mission is always to recover money damages for the client and to provide every client the JKG guarantee.

John Kevin Griffin is an accomplished pilot who has a commercial pilot license for both airplanes and helicopters with an instrument rating.

He is the son of Lucille J. Gallagher Griffin, of Hickory Hills, Illinois (formerly Ballina, County Mayo, Republic of Ireland), and William Francis Griffin (deceased 1990)

He is the proud father of two college students, Erin Colleen, and John Terence. 

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