Barbara Joan Pariente is an attorney and jurist from Florida. She was chief justice of the Florida Supreme Court from July 1,2004,until June 30,2006. Pariente is the second woman to hold the position of chief justice and served on the court from 1997 to 2019. From 1993 to 1997 she was a judge on Florida's Fourth District Court of Appeal.
Rosemary Barkett is a Mexican-American judge of the Iran–United States Claims Tribunal located in The Hague,Netherlands since 2013. Previously,she served as a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. Prior to her nomination for that post,she was chief justice of the Florida Supreme Court.
Dana Anderson Fabe is an American lawyer,retired judge,and mediator. She served as a justice of the Alaska Supreme Court from 1996 to 2016,including three terms as the court's chief justice. She previously served as an Alaska trial court judge for nearly eight years,from 1988 to 1996. Fabe was the first woman appointed to the Alaska Supreme Court,as well as its first female chief justice.
Peggy Ann Quince is a former justice of the Supreme Court of Florida,having previously served as chief justice from July 1,2008,until June 30,2010. Quince was the second African American and third woman to serve as chief justice. She had been a justice of the Court since 1999,and was the first African-American woman to sit on the state's highest Court and the third female Justice. From 1993 to 1997,she served as a judge on Florida's Second District Court of Appeal. On July 1,2008,Quince assumed the office of Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Florida for two years,the first African-American woman to head any branch of Florida government.
Stetson University College of Law,founded in 1900 and part of Stetson University,is Florida's first law school. Originally located near the university's main campus in DeLand,Florida,the law school moved in 1954 to Gulfport,Florida. The law school occupies a historic 1920s resort hotel,the Rolyat Hotel,designed by Richard Kiehnel. The College of Law is accredited by the American Bar Association and has been a member of the Association of American Law Schools since 1931. The college also has a campus in Tampa,Florida that shares space with a working court,Florida's Second District Court of Appeal.
Mercer University School of Law is the professional law school of Mercer University. Founded in 1873,it is one of the oldest law schools in the United States;the first law school accredited by the bar in Georgia,and the second oldest of Mercer's 12 colleges and schools. The School of Law has approximately 440 students and is located in Macon,Georgia on its own campus one mile (1.6 km) from Mercer's main campus. The law school building,one of Macon's most recognizable sites,is a three-story partial replica of Independence Hall in Philadelphia and is located on Coleman Hill overlooking downtown Macon. According to Mercer's official 2020 ABA-required disclosures,72% of the Class of 2020 obtained full-time,long-term,JD-required employment nine months after graduation.
Virginia Lynn Linder is an American judge from Oregon who served as the 99th justice of the Oregon Supreme Court from January 2007 until January 2016. She served on the Oregon Court of Appeals from 1997 until her election to the state's Supreme Court in the 2006,an electoral campaign in which she defeated former Labor Commissioner and Republican gubernatorial candidate Jack Roberts.
In the 2006 Georgia elections,Incumbent Governor Sonny Perdue,the first Republican Governor of Georgia since reconstruction,was re-elected over then-Lieutenant Governor Mark Taylor (D).
James Tenney Brand was the 31st Chief Justice of the Oregon Supreme Court,serving in that role from 1951 to 1953. While serving on court from 1941 to 1958 his service was interrupted when he was chosen to be a judge on a military tribunal adjudicating Nazi war crimes after World War II.
Harold Leon Sebring,nicknamed Tom Sebring,was a Florida Supreme Court justice,and an American judge at one of the Subsequent Nuremberg Trials of German war criminals after World War II. Sebring was a native of Kansas and an alumnus of Kansas State Agricultural College. While Sebring attended law school at the University of Florida,he also served as the head coach of the Florida Gators football team that represented the university.
William Glenn Terrell was a state legislator and justice of the Florida Supreme Court from 1923 to 1964. During the time of his tenure on the Florida Supreme Court,he served as Associate Justice and as chief justice. His 41-year tenure was the longest of any judge on that body. He was succeeded on the Court by Richard W. Ervin. He served in the Florida House of Representatives and the Florida Senate. His photograph appeared in a composite with other 1915 Florida state senators.
Simone Bell is a community organizer and former politician from Atlanta,Georgia. A Democrat,she was elected to the Georgia House of Representatives in December 2009 from the state's 58th district in DeKalb and Fulton counties,and served until November 2015.
George Holmes Carley was an American lawyer and judge. From Decatur,Georgia,he served on the Supreme Court of Georgia from March 1993 until July 2012,acting as Chief Justice for the last two months of his term.
Courtney Rae Hudson is an Associate Justice of the Arkansas Supreme Court. She was elected to the position in 2010.
Edwin Harris Drew was a justice of the Supreme Court of Florida from August 18,1952,to January 5,1971,including two periods as chief justice.
John J. Ellington is an associate justice of the Supreme Court of Georgia and former judge of the Georgia Court of Appeals.
Sara L. Doyle is a judge of the Georgia Court of Appeals.
William Hull Ellis,more commonly referred to as William H. Ellis and W. H. Ellis,was an American attorney and politician from the state of Florida. Ellis served twice as the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Florida.
