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James Wolf
First District Court of Appeal
Professional Experience
- Lecturer, Legal Environment Online
- Florida State University, College of Business
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- Judge
- First District Court of Appeal
- - Current
- Chief judge, 2003-05
- Adjunct professor in Florida Constitutional Law and Local Government Law
- Florida State University College of Law
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- Adjunct professor in Local Government
- Graduate School of Public Administration, Florida State University
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- General Counsel
- Florida League of Cities
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- City Attorney
- Jupiter Inlet Colony
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- Private practice
- Caldwell, Pacetti, Barrow & Salisbury
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- Code Enforcement Board attorney
- City of West Palm Beach and City of Boynton Beach
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- Assistant city attorney
- City of West Palm Beach
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- Assistant state attorney
- Fifteenth Judicial Circuit
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Education
- University of Virginia
- LL.M. (2001)
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- University of Miami
- J.D. (1975)
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- Rutgers University
- A.B. (1972) | political science
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Awards
- Ralph A. Marsicano Award to the Outstanding Local Government Attorney
- Local Government Law Section of The Florida Bar
- Municipal Attorney of the Year
- Florida Municipal Attorneys’ Association
- American Jurisprudence Award
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- For Excellent Achievement in the Study of Civil Procedure
Professional Associations
- First District Appellate American Inn of Court
- Charter member and first president
- Current
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- William Stafford Tallahassee American Inn of Court
- Senior member and past president
- Current
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- District Court Conference
- Member and former president
- Current
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- District Court Conference Judicial Evaluation and Legislative committees
- Member
- Current
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- University of Latvia, Riga, Latvia
- Guest lecturer
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- University of Latvia, Riga, Latvia
- Guest lecturer
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- University of National and World Economy, Sofia, Bulgaria
- Guest lecturer
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- Tallahassee Jewish Federation
- Board of Directors
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- Judicial Qualifications Commission
- Member and two-time chair
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- Literacy and Justice Teaching programs for elementary school children
- Participant
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- District Court of Appeal Budget Commission
- Chair
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- Civil Procedures Rules Committee
- Member
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- Local Government Law Certification Committee
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- Committee on Rules of Evidence
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- Neighborhood association
- President
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- Local Government Section
- Executive counsel
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- Florida Municipal Attorneys’ Association
- Executive secretary
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- Local Government Section of The Florida Bar
- Chair
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- Governor’s Conference on Local Government
- Vice chair
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- Local Government Symposium, Stetson Law Review
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- Kiwanis
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Publications
Articles & Publications
- Taking a Swing at Appellate Brief Writing
- The Florida Bar Journal, Fla. B.J.
- The Effectiveness of Home Rule: A Preemption and Conflict Analysis
- The Florida Bar Journal, Fla. B.J.
- Municipalities and the Florida Constitution
- Stetson Law Review, Winter 2008, 37 Stetson Law Review 435
- Judicial Discipline in Florida: The Cost of Misconduct
- Nova Law Review, 30 Nova Law Review 349
- Inherent Rulemaking of an Independent Judiciary
- University of Miami Law Review, 56 U. of Miami Law Review 507,
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