Mary Barzee Flores
| Mary Barzee Flores | |
|---|---|
| Personal details | |
| Born |
1962 (age 53–54) Miami, Florida, U.S. |
| Alma mater | University of Miami |
Mary Barzee Flores (born 1962) is a Florida attorney in private practice and is a nominee to be a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida.
Biography
Barzee Flores received a Bachelor of Music degree in 1985 from the University of Miami School of Music. She received a Juris Doctor, cum laude, in 1988 from the University of Miami School of Law. She began her legal career as an associate at the law firm of Sonnett, Sale and Kuehne, PA. From 1990 to 2003, she served in the Federal Public Defender's Office for the Southern District of Florida, first as an Assistant Federal Public Defender and then as a Supervisory Assistant Federal Public Defender. From 2003 to 2011, she served as a Circuit Judge of the Eleventh Judicial Circuit Court of Florida, presiding over both criminal and civil matters. Since 2011, she has been a shareholder at the law firm of Stearns Weaver Miller Weissler Alhadeff & Sitterson, P.A., where her practice consists of complex commercial and employment litigation.[1]
Nomination to district court
On February 26, 2015, President Obama nominated Barzee Flores to serve as a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida, to the seat vacated by Judge Robin S. Rosenbaum, who was elevated to the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit on June 2, 2014. Her nomination is currently pending before the Senate Judiciary Committee.[2]