• Degrees: B.A., Vanderbilt University, 1973, cum laude; J.D., University
of Florida, 1977 with Honors.
• Offices and Positions: Judge, District Court of Appeal, First District,
June 1991 to present (Chief Judge 2006-2007); private practice in Pensacola, Florida, 1979-91;
Litigation Attorney, Florida Department of Transportation, 1978-79; Assistant
Public Defender, Second Judicial Circuit, 1978; Assistant State Attorney,
Twelfth Judicial Circuit, 1977-78.
• Legal Activities: Legal Activities: Florida Supreme Court
Judicial Branch Records Management Committee (Chair, 2008-), Florida Supreme
Court Committee on Standard Jury Instructions (Civil); The Florida Bar Judicial
Administration Selection and Tenure Committee (Chair 2004-2005); Florida Supreme
Court Judicial Ethics Advisory Committee (Chair 1998-99 & 2000-01); Florida
Supreme Court Public Records Workgroup (Chair 2000-01); Florida Bar Rules of
Judicial Administration Committee (Chair 1999-2000); Chair, District Court of
Appeal Budget Commission, (2005-2006); Master, Tallahassee American Inns of
Court (President 2005-2006); Master, First District Appellate American Inn of
Court, (President-Elect, 2009-2010).
Admitted to practice before United States Supreme Court, United States 5th, 6th,
and 11th Circuits, United States District Court, Northern District of Florida;
United States Army Court of Military Review.
• Faculty: Florida
College of Advanced Judicial Studies; Florida Conference of Circuit Judges;
Florida Conference of County Judges; American
Judicature Society College of Judicial Conduct Organizations.
• Civic and Religious: President, Northeast Pensacola Sertoma Club
(1988-89); President, Temple Beth El, Pensacola (1989-91); Trustee, Temple
Israel, Tallahassee.
• Publications: "Judicial Elections: Canon 7, Politics, and Free Speech",
The Florida Bar Journal , Vol. LXXII, No. 7 July/August 1998; "No-Fault
Insurance" Chapter in Florida Automobile Insurance Law (1991, 1995, 1998); "'But
I'm A Friend of the Court' and Other Predicaments: What Every Lawyer Should Know
About the Florida Code of Judicial Conduct," The Florida Bar Journal, March
2002.
• Staff:
Philip Y. Tomberlin, J. D., University of Florida, 1986, Career Attorney
Jonathan Mautner, J. D. Emory, 2009, Law Clerk
C. J. Marston, Judicial Assistant
