Lakewood Ranch attorney appointed to Manatee County Court

Lakewood Ranch attorney appointed to Manatee County Court

Lakewood Ranch’s Hillary Ellis, 40, always wanted to be an attorney. “If you go back to my eighth-grade yearbook, it asks what you want to be when you grow up and it says 'attorney,'” Ellis said. "I always liked the arguments of the law and watching Court TV, seeing trials happen live. It was always very interesting to me."As Ellis moved through her career as a lawyer for the Department of Children and Families, as an assistant state attorney, a…