John Hamilton

John N. Hamilton is a personal injury trial lawyer with Nance Cacciatore in Melbourne, Florida. For more than 40 years he has represented injured people and their families in Brevard County and across Florida, with a practice centered on complex personal injury, medical malpractice and product liability cases.

Hamilton began his career as a prosecutor and joined the firm in 1984. He has tried more than 120 jury trials to verdict and has obtained dozens of million-dollar and multimillion-dollar recoveries in state and federal courts. In 1992 he won one of the largest personal injury verdicts in Brevard County history for a bicyclist whose leg was run over by a tractor-trailer on the Eau Gallie Causeway. He is board certified in civil trial law by The Florida Bar and as a civil trial advocate by the National Board of Trial Advocacy, and he has been a member of the American Board of Trial Advocates since 2006.

He earned his law degree from the University of Mississippi School of Law in 1981 and his undergraduate degree from Cornell University in 1978, and he is admitted in Florida and Mississippi. In Melbourne, he chaired the capital campaign for Holy Trinity Episcopal Academy’s upper campus, is a past president of the Melbourne Beach Rotary, chaired the Melbourne Beach Police Civil Service Commission and has served on the Melbourne Police Athletic League board. He also interviews local applicants as a Cornell alumni ambassador.