Why did you become a judge? As a lawyer, a judgeship was thought of as a higher calling despite the lower salary. After handling more than 7,000 cases, trying more than 200 jury trials in both civil and criminal court, arguing many appeals before the Florida Supreme Court and the various District Courts of Appeals, and handling many wrongful death cases on behalf of victims, it suddenly struck me like a lightning bolt that it was time to move on and do something different.
