Meet the Doctor

Dr. Hawkins was born in Pittsburgh, PA. and grew up in Bradenton, FL. He has lived in Lake Mary with his wife, Debbie, since 1979. His children, Jason and Jaime, are both married and live in central Florida. Dr. Hawkins graduated from undergraduate school at Huntingdon College in Montgomery, Alabama, where he majored in chemistry, biology, math, and physics, while playing intercollegiate basketball for 2 years. He then attended graduate school at Florida State University and graduated from the University of Florida College of Dentistry in 1979. He has since practiced family-oriented and cosmetic general dentistry in the Longwood, Sweetwater, Wekiva, and Altamonte Springs area.

Dr. Hawkins has been active as an elder in the Markham Woods Presbyterian Church and the First Presbyterian Church of Orlando, a soccer coach for the Seminole Soccer Club, a basketball coach for the Sunshine Basketball Association, a member of the South Seminole Rotary Club, and was a member of the Board of Directors for the Dental Society of Greater Orlando. He was the president of the Dental Society of Greater Orlando from 1994-95 and was Chairman of Childrens' Dental Health for the Dental Society, a delegate to the Florida Dental Association, and on the council of Governmental Affairs. He is a former Florida Board of Dentistry State Dental Board Examiner. Dr. Hawkins has served on the Advisory Board of Directors of the Southern Bank of Central Florida and the Southern Community Bank of Central Florida. He has been a member of the Planning and Zoning Board for the City of Lake Mary since 1991, serving as its Chairman since 2000. He was president of the Cardinal Oaks Cove Homeowners and the Crimewatch from 1987-97 as well as being on the Citizens Search Committee to choose a Superintendent of Schools for Seminole County in 1991-92.

Dr. Hawkins was awarded Rotary International’s highest honor as a Paul Harris Fellow and selected as one of "The Best Dentists in America" for 2003-2005. He’s a member of the Dental Society of Greater Orlando, the Florida Dental Association, the Florida Academy of Dental Practice Administration, and the Pierre Fauchard Academy while attending over one hundred hours of continuing education each year. He enjoys gardening, basketball, snow skiing, fishing, the Orlando Magic, and the Florida Gators!!