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Barakat; born August 29, 1939) is a
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judge of the
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located in
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since 2013. Previously, she served as a
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of the
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. Prior to her nomination for that post, she was chief justice of the
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. Born in Mexico to parents who were emigrants from
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, she is recognized as the first woman, Arab American, and Hispanic judge (of Syrian descent) on the
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.


Background

Born Rosemary Barakat in
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,
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,
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, Barkett was the daughter of Syrian immigrants Assad and Mariam Barakat. Barkett's parents had seven children who survived to adulthood. In January 1946, when Barkett was six, her entire family immigrated to
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,
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. As a native Mexican by birth, Barakat spoke only Spanish until she moved to Miami. Upon arriving in Miami, the family changed the spelling of its surname to Barkett. Barkett became a United States citizen in 1958 at the age of 18. At age 17, Barkett joined the
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, becoming a
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. While in the Order, she received an
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degree from
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. From 1960 to 1968, she taught
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and
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classes in
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,
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and St. Augustine. Years later, in 1990, she told the
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that the convent was "like a sorority, without the parties." Barkett left the convent in 1967, the same year that she received her
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degree from
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, ''
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''. She went on to law school at the
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in 1970, where she was the first woman to win the Miller Memorial award for outstanding senior graduate.


Florida Supreme Court

After nearly a decade in private practice, Barkett was appointed as a state circuit court judge in 1979 by Governor Bob Graham. She advanced to higher judicial offices, as the Chief Judge of the Fifteenth Judicial Circuit of the State of Florida and as an Appellate Judge on the Fourth District Court of Appeal of the State of Florida in 1984. The following year she was appointed by Governor Graham to the Florida Supreme Court, the first woman to serve in this position. In 1992 she was chosen by her colleagues to become the state's first woman chief justice. As Florida's first female Supreme Court Justice, her appointment highlighted a number of gender-bias issues within the institution. Prior to her appointment, the floor where justices' chambers were located in the Supreme Court Building had only two restrooms, one marked "Justices," the other marked "Ladies." In addition to that change, her tenure ended the use of the title "Mr. Justice." Barkett was to be called "Madam Justice Barkett," which she felt was inappropriate because she was not married and "did not qualify for the other definition of Madam." Instead she requested to be addressed simply as "Justice Barkett." The other justices followed suit and dropped "Mr." from their titles. To remain on the state Supreme Court, Barkett survived a rancorous merit retention election in 1992, receiving a favorable vote of 61 percent. During that battle, organizations such as the
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and Florida
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developed negative advertising campaigns.


Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals

On September 24, 1993, President
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nominated Barkett to a seat on the
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(which reviews cases from Florida, Alabama, and Georgia). The seat had been vacated by
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. Barkett's nomination was hotly contested by newspaper columnists and such conservative politicians as
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, who was, at the time, the ranking
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on the
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. As described in ''
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'', the left-leaning magazine
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, and a 2014 book, ''The Biblical Truth About America's Death Penalty'', much of the focus was on Barkett's supposedly being soft on crime. The opposition focused on her being against the death penalty, though she had affirmed the death penalty 275 times while on the state supreme court. In a 1994 New York Times op-ed,
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described how Barkett was Borked by such senators as
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, who "spelled out the gory details of every murder case in which the Chief Justice had voted to overturn death sentences." Barkett was eventually confirmed by the Democratic-controlled
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by a 61–37 vote, and she received her commission the following day, April 15, 1994. Between 1994 and 1996, a wide range of conservative politicians made explicit use of Barkett in political attack ads that tried to connect her with their political opponents. For example, in a Tennessee senate race,
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upset the incumbent
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after emphasizing that Sasser had voted to confirm Barkett for the seat on the Court of Appeals. In a California Senate race,
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took out full-page newspaper ads outlining ways in which Barkett was a liberal activist judge, and linking Barkett with his opponent in that race,
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, who had also voted for Barkett's confirmation. While trying to paint
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as soft on crime, the Republican presidential nominee
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included Barkett among 4 judges in his "judicial Hall of Shame." As pointed out in an NYU law review article, Barkett rendered 12,000 decisions and wrote 3000 opinions while on the state bench, but most of these attack ads focused on a single dissent in which the opinion was written by another member of the court. In addition, while being reviewed, Barkett was supported by Florida's
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, the
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, and the Correctional Peace Officers Association. U.S. Appeals Court judges tend to hear appeals in groups of three, and Judge Barkett—considered one of the few liberal judges among the twelve Appeals Court judges in her three-state region—is perhaps best known for her dissenting opinions after having been outvoted 2–1. For example, Warren Hill had been convicted of murder and sentenced to death. After sentencing, additional evidence arose that indicated he was intellectually disabled, which—if true—would have precluded a lawful execution. As quoted in ''
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'' and ''
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'', Barkett's 2013 dissent included the following: "The idea that courts are not permitted to acknowledge that a mistake has been made which would bar an execution is quite incredible for a country that not only prides itself on having the quintessential system of justice but attempts to export it to the world as a model of fairness." Hill was executed in 2014. Barkett was twice outvoted when her court refused to hear appeals after lawyers for death row inmates missed deadlines. As she said in one dissent: "It is unjust and inequitable to require death row inmates to suffer the consequences of their attorneys' negligence." The
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took up both of these cases (
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and
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) and then overturned both of the decisions, essentially agreeing with Barkett's dissent. In 2004, the 12 judges of the Eleventh District voted 6–6 to not review a Florida case regarding adoption by gay parents. The tie meant the case would not be reviewed.
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, the Florida governor, praised the decision, indicating that the court decision "validates Florida's conclusion that it's in the best interest of adopted children to be in homes anchored by both a father and a mother." Barkett's dissent pointed out that only gay people were excluded from adoption, that there is no rule forbidding child molesters and domestic abusers from adoption. As quoted in The Advocate, Barkett's dissent underlined the disparity: "In a very real sense, Florida's adoption statute treats homosexuals less favorably than even those individuals with characteristics that may pose a threat to the well-being of children." After noting that Florida allows single people to adopt and allows gays to be permanent foster parents, Barkett continued, "in the context of adoption, this disparity of treatment on the face of the statute amounts to the purest form of irrationality." In 2008, Barkett dissented in a case that involved Florida's system for purging the voting lists (Florida State Conference of the NAACP v. Browning). As discussed in ''
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'', Barkett's written dissent underlined the disparate racial impact of the Florida plan: while black voters made up 13 percent of the scanned pool, they comprised 26 percent of those who were purged. White voters, meanwhile, comprised 66 percent of the pool, but only 17 percent of the rejected group. In 2011, Barkett wrote the Appeals Court decision that found that discrimination against transgender individuals qualifies as unconstitutional sex-based discrimination ( Glenn v. Brumby). Judge Bill Pryor joined Barkett in the 2-1 majority. This became problematic for Pryor in 2017, when this decision was used against him when he was considered for the
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by
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. Barkett retired from the court, effective September 30, 2013, in order to accept a post on an international tribunal. Even as she left the federal bench, Barkett inspired controversy. The insider web site law.com glowingly concluded that Barkett was "in a class by herself," while the conservative magazine
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celebrated the end of "Rosemary Barkett's 34-year Reign of Error in the American judiciary."


Iran–United States Claims Tribunal

Barkett joined the
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on October 1, 2013, having been selected by the
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for the post. The Tribunal is located in
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,
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.


Teaching and outside activity

While serving on the federal bench, Barkett long taught a seminar on Human Rights and Comparative Constitutions at
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with Professor
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. Barkett also served on the faculties of Florida's Judicial College, the National Judicial College, The Institute of Judicial Administration's New Appellate Judge Seminar, and the
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. She has given lectures in countries throughout the world, including Syria, Qatar, Turkey, South Africa, Algeria, China, Haiti, Khyrgystan, and Mexico. Since leaving the Federal bench, Barkett's academic focus has been on justice and human rights. For example, she gave the 2015 Madison Lecture at
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's law school, where she described how the U.S. lags behind their international peers with regards to protecting women and children's human rights. In 2016, Barkett and another former chief justice of the Florida Supreme Court Harry Lee Anstead joined with other senior attorneys to submit a brief on a death penalty case, in which they argued that the state's death penalty law was unconstitutional. As outlined in the ''
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'', they argued that 390 people on Florida's death row should have their penalties reduced to life in prison. Barkett served as the 2015-16 Scholar in Residence at the Sorensen Center for International Peace and Justice at the law school at the
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. She serves on the Board of Measures for Justice, an organization dedicated to bringing greater transparency to the legal system. Barkett is also the honorary president of the
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.


Honors

Barkett has won dozens of awards and has been awarded seven honorary degrees. Two awards are given in her honor each year. The Rosemary Barkett Award is presented annually by the Academy of Florida Trial Lawyers to recognize efforts to provide equal justice. The Rosemary Barkett Outstanding Achievement Award is given annually by the Florida Association of Women Lawyers. The Rosemary Barkett Appellate Inn of Court was founded in 2010 by Florida International University, the Third District Court of Appeal, and the American Inns of Court Program. The Judge Rosemary Barkett Litigation Program was created in 2017 by the Americans for Immigrant Justice, a not-for-profit legal assistance organization that seeks to protect and promote the basic human rights of immigrants. Barkett has served on dozens of boards and national/international committees. She was inducted into the
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in 1986 and was a long-time member of the Board of Trustees of
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. Barkett is also featured in a non-fiction children's book, A Kid's Guide to Arab-American History, alongside a description of immigration patterns and a recipe for making hummus.


See also

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References


External links

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