Peggy Quince
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| R. Fred Lewis Charles Wells Harry Lee Anstead Barbara Pariente Peggy Quince Charles Canady Ricky Polston |
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| Charles Wells (retention) Raoul Cantero (retirement) Kenneth Bell (retirement) |
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Peggy Quince is the Chief Justice of the Florida Supreme Court. In 1993, Justice Quince became the first African-American female to be appointed to a Florida district court of appeal with her appointment by Governor Lawton Chiles to the Second District Court. She was retained in office by the electorate in November 1996. On December 8, 1998, Justice Quince was appointed by the late Governor Lawton Chiles and Governor-elect Jeb Bush to the Florida Supreme Court. [1]
Legal Education and Experience
Justice Quince graduated in 1970 from Howard University with a B.S. Degree in Zoology; she received her J.D. Degree from the Catholic University of America in 1975. In 1999, she received an "honorary doctor" of laws degree from the Stetson University College of Law. In 2004, she received an "honorary doctor" of laws degree from "St. Thomas University School of Law".
Justice Quince began her legal career in Washington, D.C. as a hearing officer with the Rental Accommodations Office administering that city's new rent control law. In 1977 she entered private practice in Norfolk, Virginia, with special emphasis in real estate and domestic relations.
In 1978, Quince opened her law practice in Bradenton, Florida, where she practiced general civil law until 1980. In February, 1980, Justice Quince began her tenure with the Attorney General's Office, Criminal Division. As an assistant attorney general she handled numerous appeals in the Second District Court of Appeal, the Florida Supreme Court, including death penalty cases, the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals and the Supreme Court of the United States. Her thirteen and a half year tenure at that office included five years as the Tampa Bureau Chief. Additionally, three years were spent handling death penalty cases exclusively, on direct appeal and in post-conviction proceedings.[2]
