Henry Latimer was the first African-American circuit court judge in Broward County,and was in line to become the first African-American president of the Florida Bar when he was killed in a car accident in South Florida. At the time,he was an attorney for the firm of Greenberg Traurig,a member of the Board of Trustees for the University of Miami,and a visiting professor who taught Alternative Dispute Resolution in the Florida International University College of Law.
Greenberg Traurig is a multinational law and lobbying firm founded in Miami in 1967 by Mel Greenberg,Larry J. Hoffman,and Robert H. Traurig.
Judith Ann Kaye was an American lawyer,jurist and the longtime Chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeals,serving in that position from March 23,1993,until December 31,2008.
Robert Sherlock Smith is a former Associate Judge of the New York Court of Appeals. Smith retired on December 31,2014,as the State Constitution's requirement that judges retire at the end of the calendar year in which they reached the age of 70.
Paul Holden Anderson is an American attorney and jurist who served as an associate justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court. He served as chief judge of the Minnesota Court of Appeals from 1992 to 1994.
Ellen Ash Peters is an American lawyer and judge. She was appointed to the Connecticut Supreme Court in 1978. She was the first woman appointed to that court.
John E. Simonett was an attorney and associate justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court. He was famous for his wit and thoughtfulness,characteristics reflected both in his judicial opinions,and in his writings and speeches. In 2007,he was named one of the 100 most influential attorneys in Minnesota history. Of his six daughters and sons,two became judges,one serving as the fourth Chief Judge of the Minnesota Court of Appeals from 1994 to 1995.
Peter Stephen Popovich was an American lawyer,politician,and judge from Minnesota. He is the only person in the state's history to serve as both Chief Judge of the Minnesota Court of Appeals and Chief Justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court.
Shutts &Bowen LLP is an AmLaw 200 law firm with 270 attorneys in seven offices in the State of Florida. Shutts &Bowen was founded in 1910. Frank B. Shutts came to Miami in 1909 and became the legal representative of Henry M. Flagler and the Florida East Coast Railway Company. In 1910 he formed a professional association with Henry F. Atkinson. In 1912 Crate D. Bowen joined the firm which settled on the name Shutts and Bowen in 1919. In 1910 Shutts organized the Miami Herald Publishing Company and was its President and principal stockholder. Shutts and Bowen is ranked as the 175th largest law firm in the United States. Its offices are located in the Florida cities of Miami,Fort Lauderdale,West Palm Beach,Orlando,Tampa,Sarasota and Tallahassee. According to statistics submitted to American Lawyer,Shutts &Bowen recorded $147 million in revenue for the year 2015,up 7.7% from 2014,with profits per partner averaging $740,000 in 2015,up 5.7% from $700,000 in 2014.
Joe Robert Reeder is a United States lawyer who served as United States Under Secretary of the Army from 1993 to 1997.
Brent Robert Appel is an American attorney,politician and former judge who served as a justice of the Iowa Supreme Court from 2006 to 2022. Appel was previously an attorney in the office of the Attorney General of Iowa and was a candidate for a seat in the Iowa General Assembly.
Susan Phillips Read is a former judge on New York State's Court of Appeals,having been appointed by Republican Governor George Pataki in 2003 for a 14-year term. Her selection made the appointive high court the first in the United States to comprise a majority of women. She resigned from the bench effective August 24,2015.
Eugene F. Pigott Jr. is an American jurist who served as an Associate Judge of the New York Court of Appeals from 2006 until 2016. He was appointed by Republican Governor George Pataki,and his term expired when he reached the mandatory retirement age of 70.
Jenny Rivera is a judge on the New York Court of Appeals. A Democrat,Rivera was appointed to the court by Andrew Cuomo in 2013 for a 14-year term. Her current term expires in 2027. She is the second Hispanic woman to serve on New York's highest court,after Carmen Beauchamp Ciparick.
One justice of the seven-member North Carolina Supreme Court and five judges of the 15-member North Carolina Court of Appeals were elected by North Carolina voters on November 8,2016,concurrently with other state elections. Terms for seats on each court are eight years.
Leslie E. Stein is a former judge on New York State's Court of Appeals. Stein was appointed to the court by Governor Andrew Cuomo in late 2014,and was confirmed by the New York State Senate on February 9,2015.
Natalie E. Hudson is an American attorney serving since 2023 as the chief justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court. From 2015 to 2023 she served as associate justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court.
Janet Marie DiFiore is an American lawyer and judge who served as the Chief Judge of New York Court of Appeals from 2016 to 2022. DiFiore was born in Mount Vernon,New York,and graduated from Long Island University and St. John's University School of Law. As a practicing attorney,DiFiore worked in a law firm and in the Westchester District Attorney's Office. DiFiore then was elected a judge of the Westchester County Court,and was subsequently named a justice of the New York Supreme Court,serving in that post from 2003 to 2005. DiFiore left the bench to become district attorney of Westchester County,New York,in 2006;she stayed in that position nearly a decade,until Governor Andrew Cuomo nominated her to the New York Court of Appeals. Her nomination was confirmed by the New York State Senate. She started her term as the Chief Judge of the Court of Appeals in New York on January 21,2016. She resigned on July 11,2022,effective August 31,2022,amid misconduct proceedings into her alleged attempt to influence a disciplinary hearing.
Robert Joshua Luck is an American lawyer and jurist who serves as a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit and was formerly a justice of the Florida Supreme Court. A Miami native,he has previously served as an Assistant United States Attorney and as a judge on the Eleventh Judicial Circuit Court of Florida and then the Florida Third District Court of Appeal.
David Allan Rose was an American lawyer and judge who served as a Massachusetts state court judge for more than 40 years and active in many community and civil rights organizations. He was a judge of the Massachusetts Superior Court (1960–1972),and then an associate justice of the Massachusetts Appeals Court (1972–1976);after reaching the mandatory retirement age of 70,he continued to serve as a recalled retired justice (1978–1985). He was the longtime chairman of the national executive committee of Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith.
