JAMES R. WOLF
BIRTH DATE: June 15, 1950
BIRTH PLACE: Newark, N.J.
SPOUSE: JoLen Rawls Wolf
CHILDREN: One
DEGREES:
LL.M., University of Virginia 2001; J.D., University of Miami 1975;
A.B. (political science), Rutgers University, 1972
LEGAL
OFFICES & POSITIONS: Judge, First District Court of Appeal, 1990-present,
chief judge, 2003-05; member and two-time chair Judicial Qualifications
Commission, 1999-present; chair, District Court of Appeal Budget Commission,
2003-05; member and incoming president, District Court Conference; member
District Court Conference Judicial Evaluation and Legislative committees;
general counsel, Florida League of Cities, 1983-91; 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, 1981-83; assistant city attorney, City of West Palm Beach, 1978-80;
assistant state attorney, Fifteenth Judicial Circuit, 1975-78.
BAR
OFFICES & ACTIVITIES: Charter member and first president, First District
Appellate American Inn of Court; 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, 1985-91;
executive secretary, Florida Municipal Attorneys’ Association, 1983-91.
TEACHING
POSITIONS: Adjunct professor in Florida Constitutional Law and Local
Government 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: Board of Directors, Tallahassee Jewish Federation,
2008-present; participant in literacy and Justice Teaching programs for
elementary school children, 1997-present; vice chair, Governor’s Conference on
Local Government in the 1990s; 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: The Florida Bar Journal, Fla. B.J., June 2009,
at 92, “The Effectiveness of Home Rule: A Preemption and Conflict Analysis”;
Stetson Law Review, Winter 2008, 37 Stetson Law Review 435,
“Municipalities and the Florida Constitution”; Nova Law Review, Spring
2006, 30 Nova Law Review 349, “Judicial Discipline in Florida: The Cost
of Misconduct”; University of Miami Law Review, Spring 2002, 56 U. of
Miami Law Review 507, “Inherent Rulemaking of an Independent Judiciary”;
Stetson Law Review, Winter 1999, 28 Stetson Law Review 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).
