The granddaughter of honoree Attorney Raleigh Rawls attended the Circuit’s Black History Month: Broward’s Legal Firsts program in mid-February, as part of the Urban League’s National Achiever’s Society of Broward County. She and her Achiever comrades were able to see first-hand how hard work and perseverance benefited the honored “Broward’s Firsts,” making the possibility of serving in the courts in the near future a concrete possibility for the students.

Judge Diaz recently participated in Career Day at Millenium Middle School where he spoke to five classes about a career in law.

Click here to view interviews of the 11 honorees that were celebrated during Black History Month: A Celebration of the Black Legal Community, “Broward’s Legal Firsts”

Last week, the Seventeenth Circuit hosted its 93rd Drug Court Ceremony and celebrated 161 graduates of the felony drug court program.

Students from the David Posnack Jewish Day School visited the central courthouse last week as visitors of Judge Towbin-Singer. They observed court and toured judicial offices, and were treated to a mock trial with Teen Court!

The group is pictured here with Judge Levenson.

The Seventeenth Circuit and the Broward County Bar Association presented “Black History Month: A Celebration of the Black Legal Community” on Friday, February 16, 2018. Several hundred attendees gathered in the jury room as “Broward’s Legal Firsts” honorees were celebrated for their contributions to the legal community.