- Lenore Carrero Nesbitt
Lenore Carrero Nesbitt (
July 19 ,1932 –October 6 ,2001 ) was an American lawyer andjudge .Nesbitt was born in 1932 in
Miami, Florida . She received herAssociate of Arts degree fromStephens College in 1952, herBachelor of Science fromNorthwestern University in 1954, and her LL.B. fromUniversity of Miami School of Law in 1957. She graduated first in herlaw school class, at a time when there were very few women lawyers.From 1957 to 1959 Nesbitt was a
research assistant for theFlorida First District Court of Appeal in Tallahassee, the first woman to hold this position.She was in private practice in Miami from 1960 to 1963, and was special assistant state attorney general from 1961 to 1963. She was research assistant for Eleventh Judicial Circuit of Florida (Dade County) from 1963 to 1965. Nesbitt resumed private practice in Miami in 1969. She was counsel for the special
general counsel for the Florida State Board of Medical Examiners from 1970 to 1971. Nesbitt served as a judge for the Eleventh Circuit from 1975 to 1982.President
Ronald Reagan nominated Nesbitt to theUnited States District Court for the Southern District of Florida on October 31, 1983, to the seat vacated byC. Clyde Atkins . Confirmed by the Senate on November 15, 1983, she received commission the following day.Nesbitt assumed
senior status on July 19, 1998. She remained on the court until her death fromcancer in 2001 in Coral Gables.Nesbitt served on the University of Miami
board of trustees . She was inducted into the Florida Women's Hall of Fame in 2001. The Lenore Carrero Nesbitt Public Service Scholarship was established at the University of Miami School of Law in her honor. [http://www.law.miami.edu/news.php?article=740]Her husband Joseph Nesbitt was a judge on the
Florida Third District Court of Appeal . [http://www.3dca.flcourts.org/Judges/12-Nesbitt.shtml]External links
* [http://www.fcsw.net/halloffame/WHOFbios/lenore_carrero_nesbitt.htm Profile] from the Florida Women's Hall of Fame
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