Stephan P. Mickle
{{Short description|American judge (1944–2021)}}
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| office = Senior Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Florida
| term_start = June 22, 2011
| term_end = January 26, 2021
| office1 = Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Florida
| term_start1 = 2009
| term_end1 = 2011
| predecessor1 = Robert Hinkle
| successor1 = {{nowrap|M. Casey Rodgers}}
| office2 = Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Florida
| term_start2 = May 22, 1998
| term_end2 = June 22, 2011
| appointer2 = Bill Clinton
| predecessor2 = Maurice M. Paul
| successor2 = Mark E. Walker
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| birth_place = New York City, New York
| death_date = {{Death date and age |2021|01|26|1944|06|18}}
| death_place = Gainesville, Florida
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Stephan Pierre Mickle{{cite news|url=https://www.tampabay.com/archive/1999/12/07/federal-judge-charged-with-drunk-driving/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240328213917/https://www.tampabay.com/archive/1999/12/07/federal-judge-charged-with-drunk-driving/|url-status=dead|archive-date=March 28, 2024|title=Federal judge charged with drunk driving|date=December 7, 1999|newspaper=Tampa Bay Times}} (June 18, 1944{{Cite web |url=http://www.lawdiary.com/docs/subscribers/FL_Judicial_Biographies.pdf |title=BIOGRAPHIES OF FEDERAL COURT JUDGES SITTING IN FLORIDA |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170730052812/http://www.lawdiary.com/docs/subscribers/FL_Judicial_Biographies.pdf |archive-date=July 30, 2017 |access-date=May 9, 2018}} – January 26, 2021) was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Florida.
Education
Mickle was born in New York City, New York. In 1965, he received his Bachelor of Arts degree in political science. He was the first Black undergraduate student to graduate from the University of Florida. In 1966, he received his Master of Education from the University of Florida. Additionally, he received his Juris Doctor from the Fredric G. Levin College of Law at the University of Florida in 1970. He was the second Black student to graduate from the University of Florida Fredric G. Levin College of Law.{{cite web |url=http://www.law.ufl.edu/uflaw/08spring/profiles/mickle.shtml |title=University of Florida Law Magazine Profile |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100624094942/http://www.law.ufl.edu/uflaw/08spring/profiles/mickle.shtml |archive-date=2010-06-24 }}
Career
Mickle worked briefly as an attorney in the Office of Legal Services at the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in Washington, D.C. in 1970 and in private practice in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. He returned to Gainesville in 1971, when he became an adjunct professor at the University of Florida College of Law, a post he still held, and entered private practice as the first Black lawyer in Alachua County. Mickle was also a special assistant public defender for the Eighth Judicial Circuit in 1974. Mickle was a judge on the Alachua County Court from 1979 to 1984 and was a circuit judge in Florida's Eighth Judicial Circuit from 1984 to 1992. He served as a judge of the Florida First District Court of Appeal from 1993 to 1998.
Federal judicial service
President Bill Clinton nominated Mickle to the United States District Court for the Northern District of Florida on January 27, 1998, to the seat vacated by Maurice M. Paul. Confirmed by the Senate on May 14, 1998, he received commission on May 22, 1998. He served as Chief Judge from 2009 to 2011.{{ cite web |url=http://archives.clintonpresidentialcenter.org/?u=012798-president-nominates-twelve-to-federal-bench-and-one-to-dc-court-of-appeals.htm |title=President Nominates Twelve to Federal Bench and One to DC Court of Appeals |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110719234419/http://archives.clintonpresidentialcenter.org/?u=012798-president-nominates-twelve-to-federal-bench-and-one-to-dc-court-of-appeals.htm |archive-date=2011-07-19 }}{{cite web|url=http://www.flnd.uscourts.gov/contact/index.cfm| title=Judge Contact Information Northern District of Florida}} He assumed senior status on June 22, 2011. He died on January 26, 2021.{{cite web|url=https://www.fjc.gov/history/judges/mickle-stephan-p.|title=Mickle, Stephan P. - Federal Judicial Center|website=www.fjc.gov}}
Honors
Mickle was the first Black man to receive the University of Florida's Distinguished Alumnus Award, in 1999. In January 2022, the Alachua County criminal courthouse was renamed for the late Judge, as the Judge Stephen P. Mickle, Sr. Courthouse.{{cite web | url=https://news.ufl.edu/2022/01/courthouse-renamed-after-stephan-mickle-/ | title=Alachua County courthouse renamed after trailblazing judge, University of Florida alumnus Stephan Mickle }}
See also
References
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Sources
- {{FJC Bio|nid=1390686}}
- {{cite web| url=http://ufdc.ufl.edu/UF00006207/00001 | title=Stephan P. Mickle Oral History}}
- {{Ballotpedia|Stephan_Mickle|Stephan Mickle}}
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