THE CAPTAIN REPORTS
AND YOUR TWO NEWEST JUDGES ARE .....
JUDGE LAURA GONZALEZ-MARQUES
Judge Gonzalez-Marques moves from the County Court bench to Circuit Court. She became a member of The Florida Bar in 2009. She worked with the law firm of Kobre & Kim until her appointment by Gov DeSantis to the County Court in September of 2021. In less than two years she takes over for Judge Michael Hanzman who resigned earlier this year.
JUDGE RITA CUERVO (aka Ritamaria Gonzalez Cuervo)
Judge Cuervo has been a member of The Florida Bar since 2005. She has been an associate with the law firm of Andrews Biernacki Davis since 2018. There she primarily handles PIP and insurance defense cases. She began her career as an APD in Miami-Dade County. She now moves to the County Court bench taking the seat previously occupied by Judge Fred Seraphin who retired earlier this year.
Happy (and surprised) to see the appointment of Ms. Cuervo. To date, Gov DeSantis has been in office for four years and seven months. In that time, he has made 230 judicial appointments. Of those 230, a staggering 147 were at one time an ASA, AUSA, or AAG (64%). Compare that to a total of 13 of 230 that were either an APD or AFPD (5%). Even more shocking, of the 230 appointments, 78 moved directly from the office of ASA, AUSA, or AAG to the bench (34%) compared to a whopping two (2) who came directly from the public defense side; one was an APD and the other was an AFPD (.008%).
IN OTHER NEWS .......
Gov. DeSantis appoints three to the Florida Museum of Black History Task Force.
The three appointments include Brian Butler, Berny Jacques, and Antony Lee. Butler, President and CEO of JCB Construction was quoted as saying as to his successful career in the construction industry: “I owe it all to my great granddaddy who learned the construction trade as a slave working on a plantation in Georgia. But for him, I may have never gotten into the construction industry”.***
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***The quoted section is what we call a joke.
9 comments:
So not funny.
Rita Cuervo is 47 years old and an 18 year lawyer. Nice to have a grown-up in County Court
I’m socially awkward, but I do my best and most people don’t realize my difficulties. But people who laugh at their own jokes and then have to say “by the way, that’s a joke” are really some of the weirdest and most narcissistic people in the world. They generally look down on others and think of themselves as God’s gift to man. This “joke” says a lot about the writer whoever he or she may be.
Meanwhile, Brian Butler has worked hard all his life. He runs a large minority owned company and believes that with education and hard work, people can achieve the American dream. Here’s a little bit about him: Brian Butler is the President and Chief Executive Officer of JCB Construction, Inc. He has been recognized as the 2022 "Most Influential Businessman" by Florida Trend Magazine and the Orlando Business Journal. Butler holds a bachelor's degree in business economics from Brown University and a master's degree in business administration from Duke University.
Actually it’s very sad when you think about it. Florida is the laughing stock of the nation now. Teaching that crap in AP Black History. Permitting books to be banned based on the complaint of a single person. Nearly causing AP Psychology to be declassified as a course in Florida by the College Board. The list goes on and on. Do you enjoy government suddenly controlling everything in our lives. Government taking over our state college campuses too. Completely did it at New College. Trying to do it at FAU and other schools. Telling professors what they can and cannot teach. It would be better if it was all one big joke.
That’s who replaces Judge Hanzman? Who???
The Captain should be banned after that “joke”. Awful.
Cap, I thought it was funny, though instead of calling it a joke, I would have posted an Irony/Sarcasm Alert.
PS loved the post asking who the Captain was. Differently a newbie.
It is true that investing in any Florida state-run college education is junk grade now, like mortgages on waterfront property, and federal money should not be backing such debt.
Although I rarely practice in Kiddie Kourt, unless my fee is 25K representing a celebrity none or the current judges are vastly inferior to the likes of Judges Tanksley, Winton and Hickey. These were older veterans of many years of practice. Now we have "baby lawyer" for the most part and the rest cannot make a living in private practice.
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