In his latest nominee to the Atlanta-based 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, President Barack Obama has found a district court judge who has represented banks and newspapers, prisoners and battered women. A federal judge before he turned 40, Adalberto J. Jordn has presided over nearly 200 trials and sat by designation at the 11th Circuit on several occasions. A star student at the University of Miami, Jordn secured a Supreme Court clerkship with Justice Sandra Day O’Connor.
Asked to explain his quick rise to the top, Jordn’s friends first cite his sharp mind. A bonus, notes Miami attorney Thomas R. Julin, is that he’s an ideal appointee for any president who wants to appeal to Cuban-Americans: Born in Havana in 1961, Jordn immigrated to Miami with his family at the age of 6.
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