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Tuesday, January 28, 2020
FLORIDA SUPREME COURT JUSTICE NOMINEES .....
THE CAPTAIN REPORTS:
AND YOUR NEXT TWO FLORIDA SUPREME COURT JUSTICES .....
Will come from the list below. Nine names were sent to Governor DeSantis last week. Six of the nominees are currently on the bench. Four of the nominees are under age 40. The Governor must choose one of the three names that are residents from the 3rd DCA (noted by the asterisk) while the second is an at-large appointment. The following are the nominees to fill the two vacancies created by the resignations of Justice Barbara Lagoa and Justice Robert Luck:
*John Couriel - (currently with Kobre & Kim). Member of The Florida Bar for 15 years and former AUSA.
Judge Renatha Francis - (County Court 2017 - Rick Scott; Circuit Court Miami-Dade County 2018 - Rick Scott; Circuit Court Palm Beach County 2019 - Ron DeSantis). Member of The Florida Bar for 9 years. *****
Judge Jonathan Gerber - (County Court 2002 - Jeb Bush; Circuit Court Palm Beach County 2004 - Jeb Bush; 4th DCA 2009 - Charlie Crist). Member of The Florida Bar for 26 years and formerly with Shutts and Bowen before taking the bench.
Judge Jamie Grosshans - (County Court Orange County 2017 - Rick Scott; 5th DCA 2018 - Rick Scott). Member of The Florida Bar for 13 years and former ASA.
*Judge Norma Lindsey - (County Court 2006 - Jeb Bush; Circuit Court 2011 - Rick Scott; 3rd DCA 2017 - Rick Scott). Member of The Florida Bar for 26 years and formerly a commercial litigation attorney before taking the bench.
Judge Timothy Osterhaus - (1st DCA 2013 - Rick Scott). Member of The Florida Bar for 21 years and formerly the Solicitor General of Florida.
*Eliot Pedrosa - (formerly with Greenberg Traurig for 19 years as Head of the Litigation Department; currently United States Executive Director Inter-American Development Bank). Member of The Florida Bar for 20 years.
Judge Lori Rowe - (1st DCA 2009 - Charlie Crist); Member of The Florida Bar for 22 years and formerly Florida's Deputy Attorney General.
Meredith Sasso - (5th DCA 2019 - Rick Scott); Member of The Florida Bar for 11 years and formerly Chief Deputy General Counsel to Rick Scott.
*****Florida’s Supreme Court has been without a black jurist since 2018, a gap that Gov. Ron DeSantis has been pressured to fill. There are two vacancies on the court, and the Judicial Nominating Commission has offered nine nominees, only one of whom is black. And there’s another problem: That nominee, Palm Beach County Circuit Judge Renatha Francis, is technically unqualified. As The Palm Beach Post notes, the Florida Constitution requires justices on the high court be a member of the Florida Bar for 10 years. And Francis has not been a member of the bar — or a lawyer — for 10 years. She graduated from Florida Coastal School of Law in 2010 and was admitted to the bar on Sep. 24 that year. If nominated by Gov. Ron DeSantis, she wouldn’t be able to serve until Sept. 24, 2020.
SO, YOU WANT TO BE A COUNTY COURT JUDGE .....
The Eleventh Circuit Judicial Nominating Commission is extending the deadline for applications to fill the vacancies in the Eleventh Judicial Circuit created by the elevation of Judges Christina DiRaimondo, Robert Watson and Ramiro Areces. The commission requests that interested candidates submit an application for consideration. Applicants must meet the qualifications for county court judges described in Article V, Section 8, of the Florida Constitution. Applicants must submit three copies of their application by 5 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 7.
CAPTAIN OUT .......
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What's going on folks. Since when do we nominate people who are not qualified for the job?
So, if you tell the Governor you are a Federalist, hate poor people and hate gays, you can go from janitor to the Florida Supreme Court in lightning speed.
I heard Luck was going to apply.
Elortegui's magical mystery tour continues. WHERE IS HE? He is becoming the REGJB's Jimmy Hoffa.
Jose Javier Elortegui
Retired
Not Eligible to Practice Law in Florida
Oil. Black gold. Texas Tea. Well the first thing you know Ol Jed's a millionaire
the kinfolf said you got to move away from here
so they packed up the truck and they moved to Beverly
Hills that is
Swimming pools.
Movie stars.
And now....The Big E????
As a chicken in the Miami area I implore (cluck cluck) these readers to not eat or order (cluck) chicken wings during the super (cluck) bowl. It's bad out there and they are (cluck cluck) saying 1.4 billion with a (cluck) B wings will be consumed over the super bowl. (cluck scratch). There are a myriad of wonderful plant based "chicken) products that are delicious and (cluck scratch) healthy.
(cluck) Thanks. And yes I typed this through the hunt and peck method.
Best comment of the year.
From the worst law school in the state and one of the worst in the USA, Florida Coastal. I would doubt that they are accredited. Limited experience and up for the Supreme Court? Thats the most qualified black? Why not William Thomas. Trawick, or Herndon? All experience trial judges and extremely well qualified.
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Ill be at the Lapidus bar in the newly reopened Ritz South Beach all week mingling with super bowl partiers, networking, and sipping a sloe gin fizz or Lime Rickey to Tom Collins.
Hooooah!
REGJB old timers who remembers Bennett Lapidus? Miami 70's- 80's drug lawyer.
It is flattering to the experience and qualifications of Judges Thomas, Trawick, and Hendon that they have been left off the list to join the sorriest Supreme Court ever to sit in Florida history.
The word is that Pedrosa was told to apply and that he would be appointed. Couriel is an interesting choice as he is a Never-Trumper, a category that someone who claims to be Trump's friend, our dear governor, would be ill advised to select
I don't know whether to agree with the trialmaster's comment @10:50 or to be horrified by it ("Thats the most qualified black?"). [eyes wide open emoji; face in palm emoji]
I recall Richard Lapidus the son of Morris who was a civil attorney until he died using at the UM swimming pool from a fall. I tried a case against him and won despite the fact he had all of the evidence and facts on his side. Guess I got lucky.
THE CAPTAIN REPORTS:
HERE IS A LIST OF THOSE THAT WERE INTERVIEWED BY THE JNC. The list does include Judges Thomas and Trawick.
9 a.m. Judge Kimberly Bonner (Twelfth Judicial Circuit)
9:30 a.m. Judge Hunter Carroll (Twelfth Judicial Circuit)
10 a.m. Judge Howard Coates, Jr. (Fifteenth Judicial Circuit)
10:30 a.m. Mr. John Couriel (Kobre & Kim LLP)
11 a.m. Mr. Jack Cox (Jack Schramm Cox, Chartered)
11:30 a.m. Judge Fabienne Fahnestock (Seventeenth Judicial Circuit)
1 p.m. Mr. Manuel Farach (McGlinchey Stafford)
1:30 p.m. Judge Renatha Francis (Fifteenth Judicial Circuit)
2 p.m. Judge Jonathan Gerber (Fourth District Court of Appeal)
2:30 p.m. Judge Jamie Grosshans (Fifth District Court of Appeal)
3 p.m. Judge Jeff Kuntz (Fourth District Court of Appeal)
3:30 p.m. Judge Bruce Kyle (Twentieth Judicial Circuit)
4 p.m. Judge Norma Lindsey (Third District Court of Appeal)
4:30 p.m. Judge Howard McGillin (Seventh Judicial Circuit)
5 p.m. Judge Bronwyn Miller (Third District Court of Appeal)
5:30 p.m. Judge Anne-Leigh Moe (Thirteenth Judicial Circuit)
6 p.m. Ms. Belinda Noah (Belinda Noah Productions, Inc.)
6:30 p.m. Judge Virginia Norton (Fourth Judicial Circuit)
8:30 a.m. Judge Timothy Osterhaus (First District Court of Appeal)
9 a.m. Mr. Eliot Pedrosa (Executive Director, InterAmerican Development Bank)
9:30 a.m. Judge Carol-Lisa Phillips (Seventeenth Judicial Circuit)
10 a.m. Judge Cymonie Rowe (Fifteenth Judicial Circuit)
10:30 a.m. Judge Lori Rowe (First District Court of Appeal)
11 a.m. Judge Samuel Salario (Second District Court of Appeal)
11:30 a.m. Judge Tatiana Salvador (Fourth Judicial Circuit)
1 p.m. Judge Meredith Sasso (Fifth District Court of Appeal)
1:30 p.m. Judge Ed Scales (Third District Court of Appeal)
2 p.m. Judge Elijah Smiley (Fourteenth Judicial Circuit)
2:30 p.m. Judge Adrian Soud (Fourth Judicial Circuit)
3 p.m. Judge William Thomas (Eleventh Judicial Circuit)
3:30 p.m. Judge Daryl Trawick (Eleventh Judicial Circuit)
4 p.m. Judge Thomas Winokur (First District Court of Appeal)
CAPTAIN OUT ......
Trialmaster's phrase "most qualified black" is bad at best, and racist at worst although we do not think he meant it that way. But it illustrates a point. We want the most qualified person to be on the Florida Supreme Court- black, white, Hispanic, Asian or even resident of Broward.
Such a consideration of a most qualified white, most qualified black, most qualified woman, should have went out in the 1980s? 1970s? It's an offensive way of evaluating someone, except to the extent anyone in Broward could be qualified.
Florida Supreme Court candidates with 9, 11, and 13 years bar admission. Come on man.
In addition to Eleventh Circuit judges Will Thomas and Daryl Trawick, Elijah Smiley, the Chief Judge of the Fourteenth Judicial Circuit, and Fabienne Fahnstock, Seventeenth Judicial Circuit
are all African American, with significant credentials and experience. It says something about this particular judicial nominating commission that the only African American to make it out
of committee has is ineligible for lack of experience.
Within the newly reopened Ritz South Beach and sipping a gin fizz or Lime Rickey to collins.
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