Mary Barzee Flores
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September 3, 1962
Mary Barzee Flores | |
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| Judge of the Eleventh Judicial Circuit Court of Florida | |
| In office January 7, 2003 – June 6, 2011 | |
| Preceded by | Philip Bloom |
| Succeeded by | Rosa Figarola |
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| Born | Mary Riley Barzee[1] September 3, 1962 Miami, Florida, U.S. |
| Party | Democratic |
| Education | University of Miami (BA, JD) |
Mary Riley Flores (née Barzee; September 3, 1962) is a Florida attorney in private practice and a former Democratic candidate for Florida's 25th congressional district in the 2018 election. From 2003 to 2011, she served as a judge on Florida's Eleventh Judicial Circuit Court. President Barack Obama nominated her to the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida in 2015, but her nomination expired without being voted on by the United States Senate.
Barzee Flores received a Bachelor of Music degree in 1985 from the University of Miami School of Music. She received a Juris Doctor, cum laude, in 1988 from the University of Miami School of Law.[citation needed] She began her legal career with two years in private practice as an associate at the law firm of Sonnett Sale and Kuehne. From 1990 to 2003, she served in the Federal Public Defender's Office for the Southern District of Florida, first as an assistant federal public defender and then as a supervisory assistant federal public defender.[citation needed]
In 2002, she was elected unopposed to Florida's Eleventh Judicial Circuit Court, which encompasses Miami-Dade County.[2] She was unopposed for reelection in 2008. While a circuit judge, she presided over more than 100 jury trials and a dozen bench trials, in both criminal and civil matters.[3]
Since 2011, she has been a shareholder at the Miami law firm of Stearns Weaver Miller Weissler Alhadeff & Sitterson, where her practice consists of complex commercial and employment litigation.[4]