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Wednesday, October 24, 2018
3RD DCA JNC SENDS TEN NAMES TO THE GOVERNOR FOR TWO OPEN SEATS .......
THE CAPTAIN REPORTS:
YOUR TWO NEW 3RD DCA JUDGES .... WILL BE NAMED FROM THE FOLLOWING LIST OF NOMINEES .....
This past Monday and Tuesday, the 3rd DCA JNC interviewed a total of 17 for two open seats on the appellate court. Today, the JNC narrowed the list to ten and forwarded those names to Governor Scott for his consideration. The list includes six current and one former judge among the ten nominees.
Governor Scott has 60 days to name replacements for Judges Leslie Rothenberg and Richard Suarez. The two new judges will likely be chosen just two weeks before Scott leaves office as a lame duck Governor.
The list of nominees (click on the names of the last three listed below to be taken to their complete bio):
Hon. Monica Gordo
- 19 years Florida Bar; Circuit Court Family Division; eight years on the bench; former ASA
Hon. Eric Hendon
- 39 years Florida Bar; Circuit Court Criminal Division; sixteen years on the bench; former ASA, APD, AAG
Hon. Timothy Koenig
- 34 years Florida Bar; Circuit Court Monroe County; four years on the bench; thirty years in private practice
Hon. Fleur Lobree
- 26 years Florida Bar; former Circuit Court judge (2 years) and County Court judge (1 year); former AAG, ASA
Hon. Bronwyn Miller
- 21 years Florida Bar; Circuit Court Civil Division; thirteen years on the bench; former ASA
Hon. Thomas Rebull
- 21 years Florida Bar; Circuit Court Civil Division; seven years on the bench; fourteen years in private practice
Hon. Lisa Walsh
- 26 years Florida Bar; Circuit Court Criminal Division; ten years on the bench; former APD
Oren Rosenthal
-22 years Florida Bar; currently an Assistant Miami-Dade County Attorney; Oren Rosenthal currently serves as the lead attorney for the Miami-Dade Elections Department and the Information Technology Department. Oren has previously served as a member of the Federal Litigation section of the office. Oren is experienced as a litigator and as a transactional lawyer. Oren's litigation experience includes federal civil rights suits, intellectual property claims, complex commercial matters, as well as challenges to elections and the Miami-Dade County Home Rule Charter. Oren has also handled numerous appeals before both state and federal appellate courts.
Ann St. Peter-Griffith
-24 years Florida Bar; currently with Kasowitz, Benson, Torres LLP; has a national practice that focuses on all aspects of complex commercial litigation, including health care, Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, False Claims Act, product liability, constitutional, and employment discrimination cases in federal and state trial and appellate courts. Also represents health care clients in civil and criminal matters throughout the United States. Former AUSA.
Melissa Damian Visconti
-23 years Florida Bar; currently Of Counsel to Damian & Valori; experienced trial and appellate lawyer who has appeared in state and federal courts across Florida and around the country. Ms. Visconti is Of Counsel to the Firm and focuses her practice in the areas of state and federal court appeals, complex litigation, and receiverships. Ms. Visconti has extensive experience in state and federal appeals courts, as well as in the areas of products liability, whistleblower and False Claims Act cases, securities, multidistrict litigation, and class action litigation. She is also experienced in criminal law, advising clients who are the subjects of or material witnesses in federal and state investigations
Who didn’t make the final cut:
Hon. Jason Bloch
Hon. Alexander Bokor
Hon. George Sarduy
Hon. Angelica Zayas
Jeffrey Geldens
Kansas Gooden
Edward Guedes
Predictions anyone?
CAPTAIN OUT .......
Captain4Justice@gmail.com
Friday, October 19, 2018
17 APPLY FOR TWO OPEN SEATS ON 3RD DCA .....
THE CAPTAIN REPORTS:
SO, YOU WANT TO BE A 3rd DCA JUDGE .......
The application deadline has passed, and you’ll be happy to know that Judge Michael Hanzman and Judge Milton Hirsch will not be leaving the trial bench any time soon. Neither of them applied for the two open seats on the 3rd DCA due to the resignations of Judge Leslie Rothenberg and Judge Richard Suarez. Judge Lisa Walsh though is one of the 17 applicants*** that will be interviewed next week. A total of nine current and two former judges are among the applicants. Two, Judge Alexander Bokor and Edward Guedes are also being interviewed for the three open seats on the Florida Supreme Court.
The interviews will take place on Monday, October 22, 2018 and Tuesday, October 23, 2018. Those being interviewed include:
Hon. Jason Bloch
Hon. Alexander Bokor
Jeffrey R. Geldens
Kansas R. Gooden
Hon. Monica Gordo
Edward G. Guedes
Hon. Eric W. Hendon
Hon. Timothy J. Koenig (Monroe County)
Hon. Fleur J. Lobree
Hon. Bronwyn C. Miller
Ann M. St. Peter-Griffith
Hon. Thomas J. Rebull
Oren Rosenthal
Hon. George A. R. Sarduy
Melissa Damian Visconti
Hon. Lisa S. Walsh
Hon. Angelica D. Zayas
***It was rumored that Rumpole was personally asked to apply. In response to the request, he issued a one word PCA that read: "Overqualified".
Members of the public are invited to attend the interviews (they are being held at the law offices of DLA Piper) and also are urged to contact the commission concerning the applicants. Please consider emailing any comments concerning any of the applicants to the JNC Chair:
Harout J. Samra, Chair
DLA Piper LLP
200 S. Biscayne Blvd., Suite 2500
Miami, FL 33131-5341
Tel: 305-423-8534
Email: harout.samra@dlapiper.com
Predictions anyone ?????
CAPTAIN OUT .......
Captain4Justice@gmail.com
Friday, October 05, 2018
EIGHT NEW JUDGES COMING TO A COURTROOM NEAR YOU .....
BREAKING SATURDAY AFTERNOON: JUDGE KAVANAUGH CONFIRMED TO US SUPREME COURT IN 5-48 VOTE. Rumpole not to be nominated to fill Kavanaugh's seat on DC Court of Appeals.
THE CAPTAIN REPORTS:
BREAKING NEWS:
AND YOUR THREE NEWEST COUNTY COURT JUDGES ARE ......
Today, Governor Rick Scott announced the appointment of three new County Court judges to replace Judges Dawn V. Denaro, Andrea Ricker Wolfson, and Renatha S. Francis; all three were previously promoted to the Circuit Court.
JUDGE CHRISTINE BANDIN, age 39, currently a partner with Shutts and Bowen. She has been a member of The Florida Bar for 11 years. She currently handles the defense of class action and mass litigation cases for them. She replaces Judge Andrea Ricker Wolfson
JUDGE RAUL CUERVO, age 63, currently a shareholder at Carlton, Fields, Jorden, Burt. He has been a member of The Florida Bar for 33 years. He currently handled the defense of insurance claims, class action suits, and commercial litigation cases. He replaces Judge Renatha Francis.
JUDGE LUIS PEREZ-MEDINA, age 58, currently an ASA at Miami-Dade’s State Attorney’s Office. He has been a member of The Florida Bar for 12 years and has worked at the SAO for his entire career. He ran for an open Circuit Court seat in 2016 in a four way race coming in second place in the primary. In the general election run-off he lost a close contest to Judge Mark Blumstein, 51%-49%. He fills the vacancy created by Judge Dawn Denaro.
SO, YOU WANT TO BE A JUDGE .....
3RD DCA & CIRCUIT COURT & COUNTY COURT .....
THIRD DISTRICT COURT OF APPEAL:
Chief Judge Leslie Rothenberg and Judge Richard Suarez are resigning from the 3rd DCA. As a result, the 3rd DCA JNC is accepting applications for their replacements.
If you carefully watched the shenanigans that took place in 2016 with President Obama’s nomination of Merritt Garland to the then open Scalia seat, a nomination that was never even considered by the Senate’s Judiciary Committee for nearly a year, then you need to also think about these two open seats on the 3rd DCA.
Over the next three months, despite the fact that Rick Scott is a lame duck Governor, he will likely appoint, or attempt to appoint a number of judges on the County Court, Circuit Court, DCAs, and yes, three open seats that will be on the Florida Supreme Court.
The 3rd DCA JNC has provided only 19 days for applications to be submitted for the two open seats. The deadline is October 15th. The Interviews are scheduled to take place the following week, on October 22-23. That means that Governor Scott should be receiving the finalists names on his desk on the evening of October 23, 2018. The Governor then has 60 days to choose the two replacements, with a deadline of December 22nd. Compare this to past history of DCA appointments by Scott and you notice that this particular appointment process has been expedited by approximately fourteen days; exactly the amount of days Scott will have remaining as Governor.
So, in his final two weeks in office, Scott would likely be choosing the two new 3rd DCA judges, despite the fact that, by then the Governor-Elect will have been known for a full 46 days.
CIRCUIT COURT:
With the resignation of Judge Ariana Fajardo Orshan, (she is now the US Attorney for the Southern District of Florida), Governor Scott also gets to name her replacement. Surprisingly, only ten applied for her seat. Those ten names were considered by the JNC and they have elected to interview two, consider four others who have already been recently interviewed, and not consider four others.
WILL BE INTERVIEWED ON 10/9/18:
DiRaimondo, Christina Marie
Guzman, Carlos
WILL BE CONSIDERED WITHOUT THE NEED FOR AN INTERVIEW:
Altfield, William I.
Bokor, Alexander S.
Brinkley, Tanya J.
Perez-Medina, Luis
WILL NOT BE CONSIDERED:
Barton King, Michelle
Guitian Barker, Maria A.
Cabarga, Carmen R.
Perkins, Joseph
The finalists’ names will likely reach Governor Scott’s desk on the evening of October 9, 2018 with a deadline to name Judge Fajardo Orshan’s replacement of December 8, 2018; again, a full month after the Gubernatorial Election of 2018.
With the resignation of Judge Stephen Millan, the JNC interviewed seven applicants for the open Circuit Court seat including: William Altfield, Alexander Bokor, Tanya Brinkley, Ayana Harris, Gordon Murray, Jorge Perez, and Luis Perez-Medina.
The following names have been sent to Governor Scott:
Judge William Altfield
Judge Alexander Bokor
Judge Tanya Brinkley
Ayana Harris
Luis Perez-Medina
COUNTY COURT:
With the retirement of Judge Wendell Graham, the JNC interviewed one applicant for the open County Court seat: Ariel Rodriguez. They also considered all those applicants that were interviewed for the Denaro, Wolfson, and Francis vacancies.
The following names have been sent to Governor Scott:
Julie Harris Nelson
Jonathan Meltz
Gavin N.L. White
CAPTAIN OUT .......
Captain4Justice@gmail.com
THE CAPTAIN REPORTS:
BREAKING NEWS:
AND YOUR THREE NEWEST COUNTY COURT JUDGES ARE ......
Today, Governor Rick Scott announced the appointment of three new County Court judges to replace Judges Dawn V. Denaro, Andrea Ricker Wolfson, and Renatha S. Francis; all three were previously promoted to the Circuit Court.
JUDGE CHRISTINE BANDIN, age 39, currently a partner with Shutts and Bowen. She has been a member of The Florida Bar for 11 years. She currently handles the defense of class action and mass litigation cases for them. She replaces Judge Andrea Ricker Wolfson
JUDGE RAUL CUERVO, age 63, currently a shareholder at Carlton, Fields, Jorden, Burt. He has been a member of The Florida Bar for 33 years. He currently handled the defense of insurance claims, class action suits, and commercial litigation cases. He replaces Judge Renatha Francis.
JUDGE LUIS PEREZ-MEDINA, age 58, currently an ASA at Miami-Dade’s State Attorney’s Office. He has been a member of The Florida Bar for 12 years and has worked at the SAO for his entire career. He ran for an open Circuit Court seat in 2016 in a four way race coming in second place in the primary. In the general election run-off he lost a close contest to Judge Mark Blumstein, 51%-49%. He fills the vacancy created by Judge Dawn Denaro.
SO, YOU WANT TO BE A JUDGE .....
3RD DCA & CIRCUIT COURT & COUNTY COURT .....
THIRD DISTRICT COURT OF APPEAL:
Chief Judge Leslie Rothenberg and Judge Richard Suarez are resigning from the 3rd DCA. As a result, the 3rd DCA JNC is accepting applications for their replacements.
If you carefully watched the shenanigans that took place in 2016 with President Obama’s nomination of Merritt Garland to the then open Scalia seat, a nomination that was never even considered by the Senate’s Judiciary Committee for nearly a year, then you need to also think about these two open seats on the 3rd DCA.
Over the next three months, despite the fact that Rick Scott is a lame duck Governor, he will likely appoint, or attempt to appoint a number of judges on the County Court, Circuit Court, DCAs, and yes, three open seats that will be on the Florida Supreme Court.
The 3rd DCA JNC has provided only 19 days for applications to be submitted for the two open seats. The deadline is October 15th. The Interviews are scheduled to take place the following week, on October 22-23. That means that Governor Scott should be receiving the finalists names on his desk on the evening of October 23, 2018. The Governor then has 60 days to choose the two replacements, with a deadline of December 22nd. Compare this to past history of DCA appointments by Scott and you notice that this particular appointment process has been expedited by approximately fourteen days; exactly the amount of days Scott will have remaining as Governor.
So, in his final two weeks in office, Scott would likely be choosing the two new 3rd DCA judges, despite the fact that, by then the Governor-Elect will have been known for a full 46 days.
CIRCUIT COURT:
With the resignation of Judge Ariana Fajardo Orshan, (she is now the US Attorney for the Southern District of Florida), Governor Scott also gets to name her replacement. Surprisingly, only ten applied for her seat. Those ten names were considered by the JNC and they have elected to interview two, consider four others who have already been recently interviewed, and not consider four others.
WILL BE INTERVIEWED ON 10/9/18:
DiRaimondo, Christina Marie
Guzman, Carlos
WILL BE CONSIDERED WITHOUT THE NEED FOR AN INTERVIEW:
Altfield, William I.
Bokor, Alexander S.
Brinkley, Tanya J.
Perez-Medina, Luis
WILL NOT BE CONSIDERED:
Barton King, Michelle
Guitian Barker, Maria A.
Cabarga, Carmen R.
Perkins, Joseph
The finalists’ names will likely reach Governor Scott’s desk on the evening of October 9, 2018 with a deadline to name Judge Fajardo Orshan’s replacement of December 8, 2018; again, a full month after the Gubernatorial Election of 2018.
With the resignation of Judge Stephen Millan, the JNC interviewed seven applicants for the open Circuit Court seat including: William Altfield, Alexander Bokor, Tanya Brinkley, Ayana Harris, Gordon Murray, Jorge Perez, and Luis Perez-Medina.
The following names have been sent to Governor Scott:
Judge William Altfield
Judge Alexander Bokor
Judge Tanya Brinkley
Ayana Harris
Luis Perez-Medina
COUNTY COURT:
With the retirement of Judge Wendell Graham, the JNC interviewed one applicant for the open County Court seat: Ariel Rodriguez. They also considered all those applicants that were interviewed for the Denaro, Wolfson, and Francis vacancies.
The following names have been sent to Governor Scott:
Julie Harris Nelson
Jonathan Meltz
Gavin N.L. White
CAPTAIN OUT .......
Captain4Justice@gmail.com
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