by Joe Wilhelm Jr.
Staff Writer
Six of the 13 applicants chosen to interview Aug. 4 for a U.S. District judge seat in the Middle District of Florida have Jacksonville connections.
City of Jacksonville General Counsel Cindy Laquidara will be the first interviewed at 9 a.m. and Circuit Judge Brian Davis will be the last at 3:30 p.m.
U.S. Magistrate Judges Monte Richardson and Joel Toomey and attorneys Bryan Gowdy and Brian Albritton, a former U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Florida, will also be interviewed.
The Florida Federal Judicial Nominating Commission selected the applications from a pool of 28. The interviews will be in Orlando.
Interview list from the Florida Federal Judicial Nominating Commission
• Attorney Brian Albritton
• Ninth Circuit Judge Alice Blackwell
• U.S. Magistrate Judge Sheri Polster Chappell
• Fourth Circuit Judge Brian Davis
• Attorney Bryan Gowdy
• U.S. Magistrate Judge Elizabeth Jenkins
• Fifth District Appeals Judge Alan Lawson
• City of Jacksonville General Counsel Cindy Laquidara
• Orange County Judge Wilfredo Martinez
• Thirteenth Circuit Judge Emily Peacock
• U.S. Magistrate Judge Monte Richardson
• Attorney Stephen Senn
• U.S. Magistrate Judge Joel Toomey