Happy Friday, everybody. Today we remember Judge James Kehoe, who served on our court for nearly twenty years (from 1979 to 1998). Before his federal judicial service, Judge Kehoe had a long career on the state court bench. He served fourteen years as a state circuit court judge (1963-1977) and two years as a state appellate judge on the Third DCA (1977-1979).
Then there was football. Judge Kehoe attended the University of Florida on a football scholarship and served as a college football referee during his years of judicial service. I'm thinking the penalty flags he threw may have carried a bit more heft than those thrown by his fellow crew members.
At the time of his death, one of his law clerks recalled that, while on the state court bench, Judge Kehoe commented that he hoped to have earned the following inscription on his gravestone: “Good Lawyer, Nice Guy.” By all accounts, he did.
FBA write up below:
Judge Kehoe was nominated to the district court by President Carter; he served on the court from 1979 to 1998. He served as a sergeant in the U.S. Army Air Corps from 1943 to 1946. In Meek v. Martinez, 724 F. Supp. 888 (S.D. Fla. 1987), Judge Kehoe held that Florida’s intrastate funding formula for allocating Older Americans Act funds violated both the Act and Title VI of the Civil Rights Act by failing to adequately target services to low-income minority elderly and by producing a racially disparate impact, and accordingly enjoined further implementation of the formula until it was revised to comply with federal law.
No comments:
Post a Comment