Andrew Owens | |
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Judge of the Twelfth Judicial Circuit of Florida | |
In office March 1983 –March 22, 2017 [1] | |
Appointed by | Bob Graham |
Succeeded by | Andrea W. McHugh [2] |
Chief Judge of the Twelfth Judicial Circuit of Florida | |
In office 2011–2015 | |
Personal details | |
Born | Andrew Douglas Owens,Jr. March 21,1947 [3] Atlanta,Georgia |
Education | B.S.,University of Florida,1970 J.D.,University of Florida,1973 |
Andrew Douglas Owens Jr. (born March 21,1947),nicknamed Andy Owens,is an American attorney,former state court judge,and former college basketball star.
Andrew is the son of Andrew Sr. and Doris E. Purcell. [3] His mother's father was Sanford P. Purcell,a Georgia State Senator and member of the Democratic Party. [3]
Owens was born in Atlanta,Georgia,but moved to Tampa,Florida as a child with his family,where his father became the owner of an auto parts store. [4] His mother,who had played basketball at Agnes Scott College in Decatur,Georgia,taught him how to play the sport. [4] Owens attended Hillsborough High School in Tampa,where he became a standout basketball player for the Hillsborough Terriers high school basketball team. [5] He played in seventy-seven prep games,while scoring 1,806 points and averaging 23.5 points per game. [5] As a senior,he scored 397 points in sixteen Western Conference games,averaging 24.8 per game,including 51 points against rival King High School. [5] He was named as a high school All-American along with Lew Alcindor and Pete Maravich. [5]
Owens received athletic scholarship offers to attend the University of Kentucky and the University of North Carolina,but he accepted a scholarship to attend his home-state University of Florida in Gainesville,Florida. As a Florida undergraduate,he played forward for coach Tommy Bartlett's Florida Gators men's basketball team for three seasons from 1967 to 1970,and was team captain for the 1969–70 season. [6] In 1968–69,he played with Neal Walk and helped lead the Gators to their first postseason tournament. [6] During the 1969–70 season,he scored 677 points and averaged twenty-seven points a game for the season—still the current record for the Gators men's basketball team. [6] During his three-season college career,he scored a total of 1,445 points and compiled eleven games in which he scored thirty or more points. [6] He was an All-Southeastern Conference (SEC) selection in 1968 and 1970,and an Academic All-American in 1970,and received an NCAA post-graduate scholarship. [6]
The Seattle SuperSonics selected Owens in the eleventh round of the 1970 NBA draft,and the New Orleans Buccaneers picked him in the twelfth round of the 1970 ABA Draft. [6] Instead of playing professional basketball,he decided to attend law school. [5]
Owens graduated from the University of Florida with a bachelor's degree in finance in 1970 and a J.D. degree in 1973,and was inducted into the University of Florida Athletic Hall of Fame as a "Gator Great" in 1978. [7] [8] He was honored as an "SEC Basketball Legend" at halftime of the Florida–Vanderbilt game in 2001. [9]
Owens worked as an attorney in Punta Gorda,Florida after graduating from law school. [4] [5] Florida Governor Bob Graham appointed him to a newly created judgeship on the Twelfth Judicial Circuit in 1982,and he later presided over the Carlie Bruscia murder trial. [10] [11] He was one of the driving forces behind the creation of a Mental Health Court in Sarasota, [12] as well as the Court Intervention Program also known as "Drug Court," a year-long out-patient program for felony drug offenders. [4] He served as the chief judge of the Twelfth Judicial Circuit from 2011 to 2015. [13] [14] [15] He resigned from the court on March 22,2017.
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