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A Supreme Evening 2024
On January 18, 2024, more than 450 attendees – including Florida Supreme Court justices, judges, lawyers, and public officials – gathered for A Supreme Evening 2024 in Tallahassee. As part of the event’s headlining program, Florida Supreme Court Justice John Couriel moderated a fireside chat with former United States Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, who served from 2005-2007 during the George W. Bush administration. Gonzales, the nation’s first Hispanic attorney general, discussed his extensive career in public service, including his time as a Texas Supreme Court justice and as White House counsel to President Bush. |
Thank you to these Outstanding Firms and Individuals who sponsored this year's A SUPREME EVENING. It is their generous support that makes the mission of the Historical Society possible. Platinum Level Sponsors Akerman LLP Carlton Fields, PA Farah & Farah Shutts & Bowen, LLP Gold Level Sponsors Ausley McMullen Bedell, Dittmar, Devault, Pillans & Coxe, PA Edwards & Ragatz, PA Holland & Knight, LLP White & Case, LLP Silver Level Sponsors Bishop Page & Mills Boies Schiller & Flexner Celene Humphries, PLLC Tim Chinaris Coker Law Conference of County Court Judges of Florida Creed and Gowdy, P.A. Florida Defense Lawyers Association Florida Justice Association John F. Harkness Holtzman Vogel Baran Torchinsky Josefiak Kula & Associates, PA Lawson Huck Gonzalez, PLLC Lesser, Lesser, Landy & Smith, PLLC Smith, Tozian, Daniel & Davis Weiss Serota Helfman Cole + Bierman Bronze Level Sponsors Appellate Practice Section of The Florida Bar Aylstock, Witkin, Kreis & Overholtz, PLLC Jon Claussen Law Cole, Scott & Kissane, PA Grossman Furlow and Bayó, LLC Major & Jane Harding Hill Ward Henderson The Liles Firm Stearns Weaver Miller Weissler Alhadeff & Sitterson Law Office of Barbara C. Wingo
Special Gifts Kubicki Draper As of 01/18/2024 | About our guest speaker Dean Alberto R. Gonzales
Gonzales is an Air Force veteran and attended the U.S. Air Force Academy. He is a graduate of Rice University and Harvard Law School. Presently he is the dean and Doyle Rogers distinguished professor of law at Belmont University College of Law in Nashville, Tennessee. A Supreme Evening 2024 |
Alberto R. Gonzales served as the 80th attorney general of the United States during the George W. Bush administration – and was the nation's first Hispanic attorney general. Before entering public service, Gonzales practiced business law at the Houston law firm of Vinson & Elkins. In 1995, he resigned his law partnership to serve as general counsel to then-Texas Governor Bush. After three years, the governor appointed Gonzales as Texas secretary of state. He was subsequently appointed as a justice on the Texas Supreme Court and elected by the citizens of Texas to serve a full six-year term in the November 2000 general election. He served as White House counsel to President Bush from 2001-2005.
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