15th Judicial Circuit Guest

Biography

Judicial Assignment

Prior Judicial Experience

• Presided over cases in the Criminal, Civil, Family and Probate Divisions
• Circuit Judge (1991)

Education

• J.D., Magna Cum Laude, from Nova University Law Center, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida
• M.A. from Columbia University, New York City, New York
• B.A. from the University of Rochester, Rochester, New York
• University of London, London, England United Kingdom

Professional Activities

• National Judicial College, Reno, Nevada, faculty
• Fifteenth Circuit Pro Bono Committee,chair(1993-present)
• Florida Supreme Court Committee on Standard Jury Instructions (2002 - 2010) 
• FL Bar Code and Rules of Evidence Committee (1995 -    )

Miscellaneous

• Author of the “Relevancy” chapter of Evidence in Florida (7th Ed.)
• Published articles in Continuing Legal Education Publications of the Florida Bar and in the Yale Journal of Ethics, New Haven, Connecticut. 
• Gives Continuing Legal Education lectures in Florida