Welcome to the latest in our ‘Holding Court’ series where the Lit Daily is exploring the variety of ways the pandemic has changed how the nation’s trial courts conduct their business and the things individual jurists are doing to adjust to whatever the new normal is going to be.
Meet Administrative Judge Jennifer Bailey of the 11th Judicial Circuit of Florida in Miami-Dade County. Bailey, who has sat on the Miami-Dade bench for nearly 28 years, says she became a judge to “solve problems.” She faced one whale of a problem as she took on the administrative judge role of her court’s civil division 45 days after Lehman Brothers collapsed. The court’s foreclosure docket alone went from an average of about 7,000 per year to 90,000 in 2010 at the height of the mortgage meltdown.
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