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Barbara Lagoa is a Cuban American judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. She was a finalist for the Supreme Court of the United States in 2020 and the first Latina and Cuban American woman on the Florida Supreme Court.
Learn about the life and career of Justice Barbara Lagoa, the first Latina and Cuban American woman to serve on the Florida Supreme Court. She is now a judge on the U.S. Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals.
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A Florida native, Lagoa was the first Hispanic woman to serve on the Florida Supreme Court. If nominated to the nation’s high court by Trump and confirmed by the Senate, she would be the second Latino justice to ever serve. Current Justice Sonia Sotomayor became the first when she was nominated by former President Barack Obama. If nominated and con...
Trump nominated Lagoa to serve on 11th Circuit Court of Appeals in 2019. She was confirmed by the Senate in a bipartisan vote, which could help ease her path to the court if she’s selected by the president again.
At 52, Lagoa would be the youngest justice on the Supreme Court, just a few months behind one of Trump’s other nominees, Neil Gorsuch. A lifetime appointment to the court would allow her to serve for decades to come.
After graduating from Columbia Law School, Lagoa worked as a pro bono lawyer for Elian Gonzalez’s family and later as a federal prosecutor. Lagoa then spent more than a decade as a judge on a Florida appeals court before being picked by Gov. Ron DeSantis to serve on the state’s supreme court. “She has been the essence of what a judge should be,” De...
“She’s an extraordinary person. I’ve heard at length about her. She’s Hispanic and highly respected -- Miami. Highly respected.”
Lagoa is a Cuban American who could be the second Latino justice on the nation's high court. She was nominated by Trump to the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals and is a former state supreme court justice.
Judge, United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit. Judge Barbara Lagoa was born in Miami, Florida. She received her Bachelor of Arts cum laude in 1989 from Florida International University where she majored in English and was a member of the Phi Kappa Phi honor society.
25 de set. de 2020 · The Supreme Court contender was a lawyer who fought to keep the Cuban refugee boy in Miami in 2000. The episode left her "heartbroken" and "seared into her soul" the importance of the rule of law, according to her colleagues and friends.
Barbara Lagoa (born November 2, 1967) [1] is an American attorney and jurist serving as a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. Prior to becoming a federal judge , she was the first Latina and Cuban American woman appointed to serve as a justice of the Supreme Court of Florida .
6 de dez. de 2019 · U.S. Circuit Judge. United States Court of Appeals. Eleventh Circuit. Date of Appointment: December 6, 2019. Entered on Duty: December 6, 2019.