Richard William Ervin Jr. was the Florida Attorney General from 1949 to 1964 and served as chief justice of the Florida Supreme Court from 1969 to 1971. He is credited with guiding the state from segregation,and desegregating its schools. His son,Richard W. Ervin III,was a judge of the First District Court of Appeal for 30 years and retired at the end of 2006.
Bruce Robert Jacob is a former Assistant Attorney General for the State of Florida during the early 1960s. He represented Louie L. Wainwright,the Director of the Florida Division of Corrections,in the Supreme Court case of Gideon v. Wainwright,decided in March 1963,regarding the right to counsel of indigent defendants in non-capital felony cases in state courts. The attorney representing the Petitioner,Clarence Gideon,was Abe Fortas,a Washington,D.C. lawyer who later became a Justice of the Supreme Court. The previous 1942 Supreme Court case of Betts v. Brady required the appointment of counsel for an indigent defendant at state expense if there was a “special circumstance”present in the case which made it necessary for counsel to be provided for the defendant to receive a fair trial. For example,if the defendant was indigent and was extremely young,or lacked education or experience,was unfamiliar with court procedures,or if the charges against him were complex,the trial court was required under the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to appoint counsel. Jacob argued against any extension of the defendant's right to counsel. The Court in Gideon overruled Betts and required state courts to appoint attorneys for defendants in all felony prosecutions.
The government of Florida is established and operated according to the Constitution of Florida and is composed of three branches of government:the executive branch consisting of the governor of Florida and the other elected and appointed constitutional officers;the legislative branch,the Florida Legislature,consisting of the Senate and House;and the judicial branch consisting of the Supreme Court of Florida and lower courts. The state also allows direct participation of the electorate by initiative,referendum,and ratification.
John William Suthers is an American attorney and politician who served as the mayor of Colorado Springs,Colorado,the Attorney General of Colorado,U.S. Attorney for Colorado,executive director of the Colorado Department of Corrections,and Fourth Judicial District Attorney. He is a member of the Republican Party.
Loranne Ausley is an American attorney and Democratic politician from Tallahassee,Florida. She served as a member of the Florida Senate from 2020 until her defeat in 2022,representing Calhoun,Franklin,Gadsden,Gulf,Hamilton,Jefferson,Leon,Liberty,Madison,Taylor,and Wakulla Counties. Previously,she represented the Tallahassee area in the Florida House of Representatives from 2000 to 2008 and then again from 2016 to 2020. Ausley was defeated for re-election in 2022 by Republican Corey Simon.
Major Best Harding is an attorney and former Chief Justice of the Florida Supreme Court. He was appointed to the court by Governor Lawton Chiles in 1991 and served until 2002. His tenure as chief justice lasted from 1998 to June 2000. Prior to being appointed to the Florida Supreme Court,Harding served as a circuit judge for Florida's Fourth Judicial Circuit and as a Duval County juvenile court judge.
DuBose Ausley is an attorney in Tallahassee,Florida,USA.
Hassan Bubacar Jallow is a Gambian judge who has served as Chief Justice of the Gambia since February 2017. He was the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) from 2003 to 2016,and Prosecutor of the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals (IRMCT) from 2012 to 2016,both at the rank of United Nations Under Secretary-General. He served as Minister of Justice and Attorney General from 1984 to 1994 under President Dawda Jawara.
Fred Henry Davis was an American attorney and politician from the state of Florida,serving as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Florida from 1933 until 1935.
George Pettus Raney was an American attorney and politician who served as the 9th Chief Justice of the Florida Supreme Court.
Joseph W. Jacquot is the general counsel to the governor of the State of Florida. Previously Jacquot was the chief deputy attorney general of the State of Florida from 2007 to 2011. He successfully argued before the United States Supreme Court in the landmark Miranda warning case Florida v. Powell and initiated the constitutional lawsuit against the Affordable Care Act ("Obamacare").
James Bryan Whitfield was an American attorney and politician who served as a long-time Justice of the Florida Supreme Court.
Jesse Michael Panuccio is an American attorney and government official. He served as the acting United States Associate Attorney General in 2017 and again from February 2018 to May 2019. He previously served as general counsel to Governor Rick Scott of Florida and as the executive director of the Florida Department of Economic Opportunity.
Leander Jerry Shaw Jr. was an American jurist who served on the Florida Supreme Court from 1983 until 2003. He was chief justice from 1990 to 1992.
Charles Alan Lawson is an American attorney and jurist who served as a justice on the Supreme Court of Florida from 2016 to 2022. He previously was a judge on the Florida Fifth District Court of Appeal. He is a founding shareholder with Lawson Huck Gonzalez,PLLC and handles civil and administrative litigation,appeals,and government affairs.
Carlos Genaro Muñiz is the chief justice on the Florida Supreme Court. He was appointed by Governor Ron DeSantis on January 22,2019. Previously,he was General Counsel of the United States Department of Education.
Daniel E. Nordby was General Counsel to Florida Governor Rick Scott. He served as the chief legal advisor to the Governor and chief advisor on Florida judicial appointments. He is a partner in the Tallahassee office of the law firm of Shutts &Bowen LLP where he handles civil and administrative litigation and appeals.
The Attorney General of American Samoa is the chief law enforcement officer and chief legal advisor to the American Samoa Government.
Lawrence A. "Larry" Keefe is an American attorney serving as Florida's Public Safety Czar. He is a former United States Attorney for the Northern District of Florida from 2019 to 2021.
Amit Agarwal formerly served as Solicitor General of Florida,an office he held since June 2016. In October 2021,Agarwal joined the law firm of Holland &Knight as a partner.
