Rutgers University, A.B. (political science), 1972; University
of Miami, J.D., 1975; University of Virginia, LLM, 2001.
LEGAL OFFICES & POSITIONS:
Judge, First District Court of Appeal,
1990-present, Chief Judge 2003-2005; member, Judicial Qualifications
Commission, 1999-present, chair 2002-2003; chair, District Court of Appeal
Budget Commission, 2003-present; member, District Court Conference, Judicial
Evaluation and Legislative Committees; general counsel, Florida League of
Cities, 1983-1991; private practice, Caldwell, Pacetti, Barrow & Salisbury,
1980-83; Code Enforcement Board attorney, City of West Palm Beach and City of
Boynton Beach, 1980-83; city attorney, Jupiter Inlet Colony, 1981-1983;
assistant city attorney, City of West Palm Beach, 1978-1980; assistant state
attorney, Fifteenth Judicial Circuit, 1975-1978.
BAR OFFICES & ACTIVITIES:
Senior member and past president, William
Stafford Tallahassee American Inn of Court; member, Civil Procedures Rules
Committee, 1994-98; Local Government Law Certification Committee, 1995-97;
Committee on Rules of Evidence, 1991; chair, Local Government Section of the
Florida Bar, 1990; executive counsel, Local Government Section, 1985-1991;
executive secretary, Florida Municipal Attorneys’ Association, 1983-1991.
TEACHING POSITIONS:
Adjunct professor in Florida Constitutional Law,
Florida State University Law School, 2000-present; adjunct professor in Local
Government at Graduate School of Public Administration, Florida State
University, 1998.
OTHER CIVIC ACTIVITIES:
Participant in literacy reading program for
elementary school children, 1997-present; vice chair, Governor’s Conference on
Local Government in the 1990's; president, neighborhood association, 1990-91;
Local Government Symposium, Stetson Law Review, 1987-90; Kiwanis, 1980-83.
HONORS & AWARDS:
Ralph A. Marsicano Award to the Outstanding Local
Government Attorney presented by Local Government Law Section of the Florida
Bar, 1990; Municipal Attorney of the Year presented by Florida Municipal
Attorneys’ Association, 1988; American Jurisprudence Award for Excellent
achievement in the Study of Civil Procedure; Dean’s list four semesters,
University of Miami School of Law.
PUBLICATIONS:
University of Miami Law Review, Spring 2002, 56 U. of Miami
L. Rev. 507, Inherent Rulemaking of an Independent Judiciary; Stetson Law
Review, Winter 1999, 28 Stetson L. Rev. 623, Local Government Responsibility for
Misconduct of Third Persons, The Pendulum Continues to Swing; Local Government
Lawyers’ Deskbook, 1998; author, “Privileges and Confidential Information,” in
Lawyers’ Cooperative, American Inn of Court Civil Procedures Series (1996).
