Alan Stephen Gold

Alan Stephen Gold (born 1944) is an American lawyer and judge. He currently serves on the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida.

Early life and education

Gold was born in 1944 in New York City. He attended Miami Beach High School. Gold received his Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Florida in 1966, his J.D. from Duke University School of Law in 1969, and his LL.M. from the University of Miami in 1974.

Career

Gold served as a research assistant to Judge Charles Carroll of the Florida Third District Court of Appeal from 1969-1970. He was briefly in private practice in Miami, Florida in 1970, before serving as assistant county attorney in the Dade County Attorney's Office from 1971-1975.

Gold was in private practice in Miami from 1975 to 1992 and 1993 and was a circuit judge on the Eleventh Judicial Circuit (Dade County) from 1992 to 1993 and from 1993 to 1997.

President Bill Clinton nominated Gold to the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida on February 12, 1997, to the seat vacated by Jose Alejandro Gonzalez, Jr.. Confirmed by the Senate on June 27, 1997, he received commission on July 1, 1997.

During Gold's confirmation hearings before the Senate, he surprised many when, after being asked which Supreme Court decision troubled him most, he named "Griswold v. Connecticut". [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E05EFDE1038F93BA25756C0A961958260]

During his service on the district court Gold has heard cases including the trial of Alberto Gutman, the corruption and conspiracy trial of 11 former Miami Police Department officers [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=950DE4DD1E38F93AA35757C0A9659C8B63] [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=950DE4DD1E38F93AA35757C0A9659C8B63] and a racketeering and fraud lawsuit against DuPont. [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F04E1DA1031F936A1575BC0A9679C8B63] Gold also issued an injunction in favor of the American Civil Liberties Union of Florida against the Miami-Dade County Public Schools in a lawsuit challenging the school board decision to remove the book "Vamos a Cuba" from school libraries after the book had been challenged by Cuban exiles. [http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/25/education/25brfs-003.html]

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