Why the first Federal Judge in Florida State was a Mexican immigrant ?
The courtroom in Tallahassee was packed with family, friends, and reporters.
She was the only woman to serve in the 140-year history of the Florida Supreme Court.
Rosemary Barkett was born in 1939 in Ciudad Victoria, Mexico, to parents of Syrian ancestry. Her family migrated to Florida in 1946. She grew up in Miami, graduated from Spring Hill College in Mobile, Alabama with high honors, and became an American citizen in 1958.
As a member of the Sisters of St. Joseph for eight years, she taught in St. Augustine, Florida. After leaving her Order, she taught in the Dade County and Michigan public schools as an elementary and a middle school teacher, before going to the University of Florida law school.
After finishing law school, Rosemary Barkett practiced law for nine years. In 1979 she was appointed a circuit judge in Palm Beach County.
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Why not?
There's nun better
her parents were Syrian / she was born in Mexico/
the family "migrated"??to FLA
She became a US citizen 1958 and found a career
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Many Americans live and work in the Us because their parents chose to embrace a new country ...
Great story that is similar to thousands of other family stories
don't get your question about why..Mexican immigrant...
many Dr,judges, factory workers came from x and BECAME US citizens.. so what?
USA is a country founded by immigrants from all the European and later from Africa and all other countries of the world. So what is wrong for a Mexican to become the Federal Judge when laws of your land allows it?
English men came to India 250 years back, occupied the nation, killed and looted our country and ruled ruthlessly for the 250 years. What right they had to come from an alien land and rule here?
At least your Mexican lady became your country citizen and had proper education to hold that job.
If you are so particular about somebody occupying a post, then you should be ashamed because you people have occupied the land of your own "RED INDIANS" whom your fore fathers have killed and driven out and occupied their land after Christopher Columbus landed in USA.
She was LEGAL
Good story for illegals to see. You should post this in Spanish, so illegals can see the possibilities when you become a real American.
Apparently, (as one of your bosom buddies already pointed out to us) Florida is the worst state ever so maybe that's why she became Judge. Remember the crack about Banana's you racist imbeciles?
I think the key there is LEGAL. Or are you such a bigot that you think a qualified American, born in Mexico of Syrian desent shouldn't be a judge?
The largest group of legal Immigrants in the USA came from Mexico.
In California there are many wealthy Mexican families with long history in the area... The owned "Ranchos" before the Anglos immigrated to California.
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