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In 2017, the Eleventh Judicial Circuit Court in Miami-Dade County Florida created a separate International Commercial Arbitration Court. [36] As of May 2024, Judge Lisa S. Walsh serves as both a Complex Business Litigation Division Judge and a presiding International Commercial Arbitration Court Judge. [37]
Anne E'del Deacon: [14] First female municipal judge in Palm Beach, Florida and fifth female judge in Florida [Palm Beach County, Florida] Catherine Brunson: [ 112 ] First African American female lawyer to work for the Palm Beach County Attorney’s Office (1977), set up a law practice (1984), and to serve on the Circuit Court in Palm Beach ...
Thomas J. "T.J." Reddick Jr.: [61] [62] First African American male to serve as a circuit court judge in Broward County, Florida (1972) [63] Zebedee Wright: [64] First African American male appointed as a County Court Judge in Broward County, Florida (1982) Robert Lee: [65] First openly LGBT male judge in Broward County, Florida (1997)
The 11 seats up for grabs in Miami-Dade’s and Broward’s circuit and county courts were all contested. Four incumbent judges keep seats and 7 first-timers elected to bench in South Florida Skip ...
The circuit courts primarily handle felony criminal cases, civil cases where the amount in controversy is greater than $30,000, as well as appeals from county courts. Circuit courts also have jurisdiction over domestic relations, juvenile dependency, juvenile delinquency, and probate matters. [4] Florida has twenty judicial circuits.
He was in private practice in Fort Lauderdale, Florida from 1958 to 1964. He was an assistant state attorney of the Fifteenth Judicial Circuit Court of Florida in Palm Beach County from 1961 to 1964. He was a Judge of the Seventeenth Judicial Circuit Court of Florida in Broward County from 1964 to 1978. [2]
Lazarus was appointed a circuit judge for Broward County, Florida in 1993 by governor Lawton Chiles. During his career as a judge, he presided over the case of Lionel Tate, who he sentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole for a murder he had committed aged 12. The conviction was later overturned and Tate was released on ...
Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida; In office September 13, 2002 – August 1, 2017: Appointed by: George W. Bush: Preceded by: Seat established by 114 Stat. 2762: Succeeded by: Aileen Cannon: Judge of the Fifteenth Judicial Circuit of Florida; In office February 12, 1996 – September 13, 2002 [1 ...