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Judge David M. Gersten was born in Miami Beach, Florida. He attended the University of Florida where he earned his B.A. in 1973 and his J.D. in 1975. He was admitted to the Florida Bar in 1975, the United States District...

Natalie Baskin was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1930, during the Great Depression.  She moved to Miami with her parents in 1948.  Not long after, at age nineteen, she married Leonard Baskin and later became the mother...

Wilkie D. Ferguson, Jr. was born in 1938 to Bahamian immigrants and raised in Miami’s Liberty Square public housing project.  He attended segregated public schools and graduated in the first graduating class of Northwe...

Daniel S. Pearson was born in New York in 1930, and spent much of his youth in Mount Vernon, New York, where he was an outstanding high school basketball player.  He received his undergraduate degree from Amherst College...

Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on July 14, 1934
Two children and two grandsons

Judge Gerald B. Cope, Jr., was appointed by Governor Bob Martinez to the Third District Court of Appeal effective December 19, 1988. He was retained in office by merit retention elections in 1990, 1996, 2002, and 2008.

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Judge James R. Jorgenson was born in Kansas City, Missouri, and was a resident of Miami for over 50 years. He was married and had three sons and one daughter, and nine grandchildren. He served with the United States Air F...

January 16, 1930 - March 11, 2006

Judge Nesbitt earned his B.A. degree from the University of Florida in 1951. After serving in the United States Army from 1952 to 1954, he earned his LL.B. degree from the University of M...

Judge Melvia B. Green Retires from the Third District Court of Appeal

On December 31, 2008, Judge Melvia B. Green retired from the Third District Court of Appeal. Judge Green has also served the State of Florida as a Dade...

Robert L. Shevin was born in 1934 in Miami.  He graduated from Miami Senior High School and went to the University of Florida, where he received his Bachelor of Arts in 1955.  At the University of Florida, he was a memb...