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Jorge Labarga (born October 21, 1952) is a justice of the Florida Supreme Court, taking office on January 6, 2009. On June 30, 2014, he was sworn in as Florida's 56th Chief Justice and the first Cuban-American to hold the post. He was succeeded on July 1, 2018, by Charles T. Canady.
Governor Lawton Chiles appointed Justice Labarga to the Circuit Court of the Fifteenth Judicial Circuit, in and for Palm Beach County, in 1996. In that capacity he served in the family, civil and criminal divisions. He also served as the administrative judge of the civil division.
- Jorge Labarga: Chief Justice of The Florida Supreme Court
- “Raise Your Hand If You’Ve Heard This Story before.”
- Goals
- Biography
After helping tie a Cuban flag to the antenna, seven-year-old Jorge Labarga jumped in his father’s canary yellow ’56 Chevy Bel Air, and they cruised around town honking the horn and cheering in celebration of the revolution. It was 1959, dictator Fulgencio Batista had fled the island with his fortune, and Fidel Castro came down from the mountains b...
Poor Chief Justice Jorge Labarga, a colorful storyteller, hears that a lot. “He gets mad when we raise our hands at the dinner table,” said daughter Stephanie Labarga. “He made the mistake of telling my sister and me that one of the judges said to raise your hand if you’ve heard that story before. So he’s getting it at lunch and from his own family...
Firefighters and police officers making $40,000 a year can’t afford to hire a lawyer when their homes are in foreclosure. Some court employees, who haven’t had cost-of-living raises in more than seven years, had to resort to food stamps. Jorge Labarga gives those examples when he describes his two major projects during his two-year term as chief ju...
Legal Experience: •Assistant public defender, 15th Judicial Circuit, West Palm Beach (1979-82) •Assistant state attorney, 15th Judicial Circuit, West Palm Beach (1982-87) •Cone, Wagner, Nugent, Roth, Romano & Ericksen, West Palm Beach, focusing on personal injury trial work (1987-92) •Roth, Duncan, and Labarga, West Palm Beach, founding partner, fo...
8 de nov. de 2022 · Jorge Labarga is a judge of the Florida Supreme Court. He assumed office on January 6, 2009. His current term ends on January 2, 2029. Labarga ran for re-election for judge of the Florida Supreme Court. He won in the retention election on November 8, 2022.
The Supreme Court of Florida is the highest judicial body in the state and sits at the apex of the Florida State Courts System. Its membership consists of seven justices–one of whom serves as Chief Justice–who are appointed by the Governor of Florida to 6-year terms and remain in office if retained in a general election near the ...
16 de out. de 2023 · Justice Jorge Labarga is the 84th Justice on the Supreme Court and was born in Havana, Cuba, though his family fled to freedom in Florida when he was a child. He was appointed in 2009 and faces merit retention vote in 2028.
22 de jan. de 2019 · Justice Jorge Labarga. Justice Labarga was appointed to the Florida Supreme Court in January 2009; he is the second Hispanic to sit on the court. He is the court’s fifty-sixth chief justice of Florida and served as chief justice from 2014 – 2018.
