Mr. Tringali received his Juris Doctor degree from the State University of New York at Buffalo Law School, and in 1971 was admitted to practice in New York and Florida. He has served as Assistant District Attorney of Erie County, N.Y.; Assistant State Attorney for the Fifteenth Judicial Circuit of Florida; and Assistant Corporation Counsel of the City of Buffalo.  In 1978 he left government service for the private practice of law, and later, with a partner, David W. Wilson, Esq., established the firm of Tringali and Wilson.  In 1990 he relocated to North Palm Beach with his wife and two children. Since that time, he has served as an Assistant Attorney General for the State of Florida.  He became a member of the United States Supreme Court bar in 2005.

 

Mr. Tringali started out writing for pleasure but soon found friends and family encouraging him to publish. A lifelong yachtsman, he wrote the first "Yachting Customs and Courtesies" as a section of "Stars Register of Clubs." The following year, he published a separate and much more comprehensive second edition which garnered so much acclaim from yacht club members that he published the current "Yachting Customs and Courtesies - Third Edition," a full-color book that includes an updated "Stars Register of Clubs."

 

 

 

 

 

 

In 2002, Mr. Tringali wrote "I Was That Baby," the true story of his own adoption, and the discovery of his birth family. "I Was That Baby" is not a "how to find your birth family" book.  It is the story of heartbreaking tragedy, how that tragedy led to an adoption, and the unbelieveable circumstances that, many years later, allowed one man to find a whole new family.  And, in telling that story, it describes the deep, hidden feelings of adoptees, and the experience of growing in a loving, nurturing world that is nevertheless somehow different.

 

Mr. Tringali has also written three novels set in South Florida: "Harbor of Refuge," "Bonita Republic" and "A Quiet Family Murder," that are soon to be published.

 

He resides with his wife of 40 years, the former Mary Lou Privitera, in North Palm Beach, Florida. They have two children: Maj. John A. Tringali, USAF, and Elizabeth A. Tringali, PA-C, who practices family medicine in West Palm Beach.