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The Third District’s first chief judge, Charles A. Carroll, was born in 1898 in New Orleans, Louisiana. He was a veteran of both World Wars.  He earned distinction as a pilot in the Army Air Corps in World War I, achie...

Mallory Horne Horton, one of the first three judges appointed to the Third District, was born in Fort Meade, Florida in 1913.  From a family that included other leading lawyers, he was named after a prominent judge from...

Tillman Pearson was one of the first three judges to be appointed to the Third District.  He was born in Wayne County, Georgia in 1913.  His parents moved to the rural area of Dade County when he was a child.  His fath...

Thomas H. Barkdull, Jr. is truly the dean of appellate judges in Florida, having served longer than any other appellate judge.  In April 2000, the Florida Legislature recognized his many accomplishments by designating th...

Norman Hendry was born in a small town in Georgia on January 20, 1905.  His family lived on a farm and raised livestock, and his father was a medical doctor. He moved to Miami in 1921 where, at age sixteen, he went to wo...

Richard H.M. Swann was born in Cairo, Georgia in 1923.  His family moved to Miami when he was an infant.  He served in the military during World War II. 

After graduating from the University of Miami School of Law, he ent...

Robert M. Haverfield was born in Ohio in 1918 and moved with his family to Florida when he was five years old.  He received his Bachelor of Business Administration degree from the University of Miami and continued his ed...

Raymond G. Nathan was born in 1918 in Youngstown, Ohio.  His family moved to Miami in 1919.  He attended elementary school in Miami and graduated from Miami Edison High School in 1934.  He attended the University of Fl...