Feeney picked Lee Chira, president, Lee Chira & Associates, a real estate development/investment firm; Skip Fowler, the House Speaker's longtime law partner: and John Browning, Palatka, FL, chairman, Florida Transportation Commission.

Bush selected Leila Nodarse, president, Nodarse & Associates Inc., an environmental engineering firm that has participated in multi-million-dollar commercial ventures.

Chira is a former Orange County commissioner, a longtime Orlando area retail and multifamily developer and is currently a member of Fannie Mae's national Housing Impact Advisory Council.

Other panel members are C.C. "Doc" Dockery, the Lakeland, FL real estate millionaire who started the bullet-train drive two years ago; Miami civil engineer William Dunn; Norman Mansour, Manatee County, FL, member of the Florida Transportation Commission; Tallahassee, FL lawyer Frederick Dudley; and Heidi J. Eddins, St. Augustine, FL, an executive with Florida East Coast Industries Inc.