Judge Florence Barner recently had her portrait added to a neighborhood mural honoring Broward’s black legal pioneers.  The mural, located on Sistrunk Boulevard across from Henry’s sandwich shop, features many of the pioneers that were honored earlier this year at the “Celebration of the Black Legal Community, Broward’s Legal Firsts” event hosted at the central courthouse.

On Friday, November 9, 2018, the Seventeenth Circuit hosted the investiture ceremony for Judge N. Hunter Davis. Family, friends, and colleagues were on hand to celebrate the occasion. Judge Davis’ wife and son robed him. Appointed to the Circuit bench in September by Governor Rick Scott, Judge Davis works in the Family division.

The Broward County Bar Association hosted a Probate Bench, Clerk and Bar Roundtable event on Thursday, November 8 in the jury room at the Central Courthouse. Panelists including Judge Peter M. Weinstein, Judge Charles M. Greene, Judge Mily Powell, Magistrate Yves Laventure and representatives from the Staff Attorneys and Clerk’s office, discussed ways to work together to improve the efficiency of probate and estate administration in the Seventeenth Circuit.

Over the weekend, Judge Florence Barner and her husband spoke at a Youth at Risk Panel at the House of God Church in Pompano Beach.