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Florida Supreme Court Justice Addresses Law Center Commencement
NSU Chancellor Ray Fererro Jr., J.D.; Florida Supreme Court Justice Peggy A. Quince; NSU President George L. Hanbury II, Ph.D.; Ron Assaf, chair of NSU’s Board of Trustees; and Shepard Broad Law Center Dean Athornia Steele.
Florida Supreme Court Justice Peggy A. Quince was the keynote speaker for the 2011 Shepard Broad Law Center Commencement Ceremony, which was held on Saturday, May 14 at 4:00 p.m. at the BankAtlantic Center in Sunrise. Dean Athornia Steele also bestowed an honorary doctor of laws degree to Justice Quince at the commencement ceremony.
NSU law professor Randolph Braccialarghe and NSU law student Jeremy Singer also spoke at the ceremony.
Justice Peggy A. Quince was the first African-American female to be appointed to one of Florida’s district court of appeal. On December 8, 1998, she was appointed to the Florida Supreme Court, where she also served a term as Chief Justice.
Justice Quince received her B.S. degree from Howard University in 1970 and her J.D. degree from the Catholic University of America in 1975. While in school, Justice Quince was active in Phi Alpha Delta Law Fraternity and the Black American Law Students Association, and received an award for her work with Catholic’s Neighborhood Legal Services Clinic.
After beginning her legal career in Washington, D.C. as a hearing officer with the Rental Accommodations Office administering that city’s new rent control law, she entered private practice in Norfolk, Virginia in 1977, with special emphasis in real estate and domestic relations.
In 1978, she moved to Bradenton, Florida where she opened a law office, and then in 1980, began her tenure with the Attorney General’s Office, Criminal Division. She handled numerous appeals in the Second District Court of Appeal, the Florida Supreme Court, the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals, and the United States Supreme Court. Her thirteen-and-a-half-year tenure at that office included five years as the Tampa Bureau Chief and three years handling death penalty cases exclusively.