Henry Lee Adams Jr

Judge Adams was appointed a United States District Judge for the Middle District of Florida in December 1993. He received his B.S. in 1966 from Florida A & M University and his J.D. from Howard University College of Law in 1969. He was awarded a Reginald Heber Smith Fellowship in April 1969 and after completing a Consumer Rights and Poverty Law training program at Haverford College, Ardmore, Pennsylvania, was assigned to the Duval County Legal Aid Association (n/k/a Jacksonville Area Legal Aid, Inc). In November 1970, he was appointed Assistant Public Defender of the Fourth Judicial Circuit and remained in that position until January 1972, when he joined the law firm of Sheppard, Fletcher, Hand & Adams. In 1976, he joined the law firm of Marshall and Adams where he maintained a general practice of law. In October 1979, he was appointed Circuit Judge in and for the Fourth Judicial Circuit (Clay, Duval and Nassau Counties), where he served until his appointment to the federal bench.

Judge

U.S. District Court, Middle District of Florida

1993 - Current

Assumed senior status on April 8, 2010.

Circuit judge

1979 - 1993

Fourth Judicial Circuit, Florida

Private practice

1972 - 1979

Jacksonville, Florida

Assistant public defender

1970 - 1972

Fourth Judicial Circuit, Duval County, Florida

Reginald Heber Smith Fellow

1969 - 1970

Duval County Legal Aid Association, Duval County, Florida

Howard University School of Law

J.D.

1969

Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University

B.S.

1966