Miami-Dade County Court Judge Robin Faber was a janitor, a furniture salesman and a banker before he agreed to go to law school and fell in love, “figuratively and literally.”

Growing up in Miami, the son of a schoolteacher and a University of Miami physics professor, Faber had no inclination for the law. He got his undergraduate degree in politics and public affairs with a minor in history.

That's when he took the job as a janitor at a now-defunct department store at Dadeland Mall. He worked the night shift, which allowed him to go to school by day.