On Friday, May 18, 2018  Judge Andrea Ruth Gundersen and Judge Michele Towbin Singer hosted their 8th Annual Courthouse Tour for the Plantation Seminole Middle School DECAL students.

This year, 122 students attended. A special thank you to the members of the Broward County Bar Association for participating as attorney volunteers.

In recognition of “making a difference” in the lives of juvenile offenders in the court system, Judge Kenneth Gillespie and Judge Elijah Williams were each honored at the Word of the Living God Ministries Annual Holy Convocation on May 14, 2018.

Congratulations to both judges!

The Seventeenth Circuit congratulates Judge Raag Singhal who last week was appointed Associate Dean of the School of Advanced Judicial Studies for the State of Florida.

We know Judge Singhal will serve the school with professionalism and help to further education for our judges statewide.

Judge Florence Barner spent a morning last week at Plantation Elementary school, teaching second and third graders about problem solving and giving back. She has donated nearly 100 piggy banks to students to help teach them about saving for school.

Judge Robert F. Diaz held a pre-Florida Bar exam prep class with law students from St. Thomas, Nova, and FIU Law Schools, the evening of May 16, 2018. Former law students he mentored through the bar exam and who are now lawyers came to pay it forward and give advice to the July Bar exam takers.