Terry P. Lewis is a retired state circuit judge who presided over cases in the Second Judicial Circuit Court of

Florida Florida is a state located in the Southeastern region of the United States. Florida is bordered to the west by the Gulf of Mexico, to the northwest by Alabama, to the north by Georgia, to the east by the Bahamas and Atlantic Ocean, a ...

. 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 who served as the 41st governor of Florida from 1991 until his death in 1998. A member of the Democratic Party, he previously served as a United States ...

, 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 The 2000 United States presidential election was the 54th quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 7, 2000. Republican candidate George W. Bush, the governor of Texas and eldest son of the 41st president, George H. W. Bush ...

. He is also a writer of legal thriller novels.

References

Year of birth missing (living people) Living people 21st-century American novelists American male novelists 21st-century American male writers {{florida-bio-stub