Jeremy Gluckman Obituary

Gluckman, Jeremy Elihu

79, passed away peacefully on July, 25, 2025 in Yarmouth Port, Massachusetts. He is survived by his wife of 57 years, Susan Kelliher; his two sons, Gideon (Karolina) and Judah (Jillian); and three grandchildren, Ada, Kazimierz, and Kai. Jeremy was born to Florence and Sidney Gluckman on September 16, 1945 in Orlando, Florida. He spent much of his childhood with a large and loving Jewish family in Orlando and their nearby orange groves.

Jeremy attended public schools in Orlando, graduated from Edgewater High School, and earned his BA and JD degrees from the University of Florida. He later went on to get an LLM in comparative constitutional law from the London School of Economics in 1975.

Jeremy served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia from 1967 to 1968, where he taught 7th grade. Jeremy began his career at Legal Services of Greater Miami, where he provided free legal services to low-income residents and led one of their branch offices. In 1975, Jeremy took over as director of Bay Area Legal Services in Tampa, where he helped expand the organization's reach into adjacent counties where the need was greatest. He went on to start his own law firm in Tampa in 1979, which grew to a practice with more than 30 staff. He spent the last 15 years of his career as a solo practitioner with offices in the historic Tampa Theater Building, where he was better able to focus on serving the clients for whom he cared deeply, concentrating on family law. After a 46-year legal career, Jeremy retired to his vacation home in Sullivan, Maine in 2018.

When he wasn't practicing law, Jeremy enjoyed spending time with his family, making homemade pastrami, and canoeing and kayaking in Florida and in Maine. He loved his three weekly tennis games with close friends at the Davis Island and Harbour Island courts. He helped develop a new generation of lawyers as an adjunct professor at Stetson University Law School. Following in the footsteps of his mother's lifelong passion for civic engagement, Jeremy also served in leadership roles at Tampa Jewish Social Services, the Harbour Island Neighborhood Association, and the Hillsborough County Bar Association and its Collaborative Divorce Committee.

Jeremy is fondly remembered by dear friends, family, and nearly all those he met for being a caring and amiable person who tried to make the world better than how he found it. He was diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia in 2021, which stymied that passion and was the ultimate cause of his passing.

In lieu of flowers, the family requests that donations may be made in Jeremy's honor to Bay Area Legal Services (https://bals.org/) and the Association for Frontotemporal Degeneration (https://www.theaftd.org/).

Casper Funeral Services

187 Dorchester St, Boston, MA 02127

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