Greg Holder

Retired Judge Gregory P. Holder is a native of Melbourne, Florida. In 1975, he received a Bachelor of Science degree in engineering and was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the U.S. Air Force. While serving as an armament systems development engineer in the Air Force, he received his Master of Business Administration from the University of West Florida in 1978. Mr. Holder was selected to attend Stetson University College of Law under the Air Force Funded Legal Education Program and received his Juris Doctor in 1981. While attending law school, he served as associate editor of the Stetson Law Review and authored several published articles.

Upon graduation from law school, he served at several stateside and overseas military bases as an assistant judge advocate and area defense counsel. He resigned his regular commission in 1988 and accepted a U.S. Air Force Reserve commission, serving at U.S. Special Operations Command (“USSOCOM”) from 1988 through 1996. At the time of his retirement from the U.S. Air Force Reserve on Feb. 1, 2004, Col. Holder served as chief reserve trial judge for the U.S. Air Force. Judge Holder was elected as a Florida county court judge in 1994 and circuit court judge in 1996. He served in virtually every division within Florida’s 13th Judicial Circuit. Judge Holder served as a Hillsborough County judge for 26 years. He served 13 years within the general civil division, 10 years in the felony division, and presided over the Veterans Treatment Court from 2014 to 2016, where he expanded the role of the court helping veterans overcome service-related issues. In this role, he helped to create the national model for Veterans Treatment Courts and currently serves on the National Veterans Court Alliance working to develop legislation to provide federal funds and oversight to the nation’s Veterans Treatment Courts.

Mr. Holder served as an adjunct faculty member at Webster University, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University (“ERAU”), University of South Florida and lead faculty/area chair for the Central Florida campus of the University of Phoenix until 2020. As an adjunct professor for ERAU, Mr. Holder taught aviation law for 30 years at the ERAU MacDill Air Force Base campus.

Mr. Holder retired from the Florida Circuit Court on Dec. 31, 2020, and immediately began his practice as a problem solver. He now serves as a mediator, arbitrator, or special magistrate for the courts in a variety of commercial, tort and reinsurance matters in both federal and state courts throughout the United States. Mr. Holder is routinely appointed mediator by federal court judges throughout the nation. He is a Florida Supreme Court-certified mediator admitted as both attorney and mediator in the U.S. District Courts for the Middle District and Southern District of Florida. Since retirement from the bench, Mr. Holder has mediated or arbitrated over 3,100 matters involving, in the aggregate, more than $750 million. He has conducted or is conducting commercial domestic arbitrations under the American Arbitration Association, CPR and Florida rules and statutes. He has also served as a special magistrate for state and federal court judges throughout Florida to address a variety of discovery issues in complex commercial and tort litigation.

Mr. Holder has been recognized in the areas of alternative dispute resolution, having been selected as a member of the National Academy of Distinguished Neutrals in 2021 and Best Lawyers in America – Arbitration and Mediation (since 2023).

Mr. Holder has been married to D.A. (“Dee”) Kobliska for more than 49 years. Dee served more than 23 years active duty in both the U.S. Army and Air Force and retired from the Air Force as a lieutenant colonel in 1993. She currently works as a nurse practitioner providing GYN care. They have two children: U.S. Air Force Lt. Col. Daniel Holder, currently serving as a C-17 squadron commander, and Andrea Holder, a practicing commercial litigation attorney. Mr. Holder proudly joined Miles Mediation & Arbitration on March 2, 2026, and focuses his practice solely in the areas of mediation and arbitration.