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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.
On January 6, 2009, he took office on the Florida Supreme Court after appointment by Governor Crist. He is the 84th Justice to take office at the Florida Supreme Court since statehood was granted in 1845.
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.
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Labarga was born in Havana, Cuba, on October 21, 1952. He emigrated to the United States with his family in 1963.He received a bachelor's degree and a law degree from the University of Florida in 1976 and 1979, respectively. Labarga became an assistant public defender in West Palm Beach in 1979. He joined the state attorney's office in West Palm Be...
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Labarga was appointed to the court by Gov. Charlie Crist (R) on January 2, 2009, to replace retiring Justice Harry Lee Anstead.He assumed office on January 6, 2009.
Ballotpedia Courts: State Partisanship
1. 1.1. See also: Ballotpedia Courts: State Partisanship and Ballotpedia Courts: Determiners and Dissenters Last updated: June 15, 2020 In 2020, Ballotpedia published Ballotpedia Courts: State Partisanship, a study examining the partisan affiliation of all state supreme court justices in the country as of June 15, 2020. The study presented Confidence Scoresthat represented our confidence in each justice's degree of partisan affiliation. This was not a measure of where a justice fell on an ide...
Bonica and Woodruff campaign finance scores
1. 1.1. See also: Bonica and Woodruff campaign finance scores of state supreme court justices, 2012 In October 2012, political science professors Adam Bonica and Michael Woodruff of Stanford University attempted to determine the partisan ideology of state supreme court justices. They created a scoring system in which a score above 0 indicated a more conservative-leaning ideology, while scores below 0 were more liberal. Labarga received a campaign finance score of 0.5, indicating a conservativ...
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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.
6 de jul. de 2022 · Florida Supreme Court Justice Jorge Labarga was one of 34 naturalized citizens honored by the Carnegie Corporation of New York in its annual list of “Great Immigrants.” Labarga came to the United States from Cuba with his family when he was 11.
Chief Justice of the Florida Supreme Court. Justice Labarga also served on the Fourth District Court of Apppeal and with the 15th Judicial Circuit. “From Havana to Tallahassee,” details the fascinating life of the Florida Supreme Court's Chief Justice Jorge Labarga.
