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Lisa Sharon Walsh is an American judge, serving on the Eleventh Judicial Circuit Court in Miami-Dade County, Florida since 2011. She has been Administrative Judge of that court's Appellate Division, a judge of its International Commercial Arbitration Court since 2017, and a business court judge in its Complex Business Litigation Division since 2023.
The court's jurisdiction comprises the nine counties of Broward, Highlands, Indian River, Martin, Miami-Dade, Monroe, Okeechobee, Palm Beach, and St. Lucie. The district includes the South Florida metropolitan area of Miami, Fort Lauderdale, and West Palm Beach. It comprises 15,197 square miles (39,360 km 2) and approximately 6.3 million people.
The Third District Court of Appeal (DCA) was one of the first three DCAs created by the Florida legislature in 1957. Court was first held in a room of the University of Miami School of Law. Then, from 1960 to 1976, court sessions took place at the State Office Building.
Miami-Dade State Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle has long promoted her efforts to combat human trafficking in South Florida, one of the top areas in the nation where the crime flourishes. Yet ...
Miami-Dade Corrections houses about 4,000 people on an average day and plans to spend roughly $480 million this year — almost all of it from property taxes and other local funds.
Judge Gill S. Freeman was the first judge presiding over Miami's Complex Business Litigation Section, serving in that role for five years. [27] She is co-chair of the Florida Bar Association's Business Law Section Business Courts Task Force, which was formed in 2018 to study the merits of implementing a statewide business court. [28]
However, the Miami-Dade clerk assumes full control of county coffers after the 2024 elections as Florida’s Constitution requires a shift of powers from the mayor to constitutional offices ...
She received a Juris Doctor in 1988 from the University of Miami School of Law. From 1988 to 1995, she served at the law firm of Floyd, Pearson, Richman, Greer, Weil, Brumbaugh & Russomanno, P.A., where she handled a broad range of civil litigation. From 1992 to 1993, she served as a traffic magistrate judge concurrently with her private practice.