Terry P. Lewis is a retired state circuit judge who presided over cases in the
Second Judicial Circuit Court of
Florida
Florida ( ; ) is a U.S. state, state in the Southeastern United States, Southeastern region of the United States. It borders the Gulf of Mexico to the west, Alabama to the northwest, Georgia (U.S. state), Georgia to the north, the Atlantic ...
. He was appointed to that court in 1998 by Governor
Lawton Chiles
Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr. (April 3, 1930 – December 12, 1998) was an American politician and military officer. A member of the Democratic Party (United States), Democratic Party, he served as a United States Senate, United States senator fr ...
, after serving as a
Leon County Court judge from 1989. Lewis is best known for overseeing the Florida recount during the
2000 US presidential election. He is also a writer of legal thriller novels.
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21st-century American novelists
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