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Jaquelin James Daniel (September 22, 1916 – August 7, 1990) was an American lawyer, businessman, civic leader, and newspaper publisher. He was born and lived most of his life in Jacksonville, Florida, where he led the effort that resulted in the Jacksonville Consolidation of 1968, which combined city and county governments to improve services.
As a law student he interned at the State Attorney's office under the supervision of prosecutor Angela Corey, who was elected State Attorney in 2008. [3] Shirk married Sarah Maria Purdy on March 13, 1999 [ 4 ] and was admitted to the Florida Bar on April 12, 2000, [ 5 ] and then worked for five years as an Assistant Public Defender (APD) in the ...
Just during the last few years, Phillips and his office have been named as: Legal Elite, Florida Trend Magazine, SuperLawyer, by Florida Super Lawyers, Litigator Award, Trial Lawyers Board of Regents, Top 100 Trial Lawyer, by the National Trial Lawyers Association, Top 40 Under 40, by the American Society of Legal Advocates, AV – Preeminent ...
Angela Corey (born October 31, 1954) is a former Florida State's Attorney for the Fourth Judicial Circuit Court, which includes Duval, Nassau and Clay counties—including Jacksonville and the core of its metropolitan area. She was elected in 2008 as the first woman to hold the position, and was defeated on August 30, 2016, by Melissa Nelson ...
He was elected to a full term in 1992, re-elected in 1996, and ran unopposed in 2000 and 2004. At a February 6, 2007 news conference, the 66-year-old lawyer announced that he would not run for re-election in 2008. [2] He subsequently returned to private practice, [3] [4] and was succeeded as State Attorney by Angela Corey.
Schlesinger was an instructor at John Marshall Law School in Atlanta, Georgia from 1967 to 1968 and corporate counsel for Seaboard Coast Line Railroad in Jacksonville, Florida from 1968 to 1970. Schlesinger was the Chief Assistant United States Attorney for the Middle District of Florida from 1970 to 1975.
Abraham Bellamy (1822): [66] First male lawyer to settle in Jacksonville, Duval County, Florida; Joseph E. Lee (1873): [67] First African American male lawyer in Jacksonville, Duval County, Florida; Francis M. Robles (c. 1890): [68] [69] First Hispanic American male lawyer in Hillsborough County, Florida. He would later become a judge.
She earned her Bachelor of Arts from Florida State University in 1964 and her Juris Doctor from the University of Florida College of Law in 1967. Black was a high school teacher in Jacksonville, Florida from 1967 to 1968 and an attorney for the United States Army Corps of Engineers in Jacksonville from 1968 to 1969.