Earl Moxam, Senior Gleaner Writer DAYTONA BEACH, Florida:
JAMAICAN-BORN prosecutor, Peter McGlashan, was on Friday elevated to the Florida bench.
The investiture ceremony took place at the Museum of Arts and Sciences at Daytona Beach Florida where the oath was administered by Hubert L. Grinds, Circuit Judge, Seventh Judicial District.
The ceremony was attended by an impressive turnout of officials from the Florida law enforcement and criminal justice community. Among them were State Attorney John Tanner, Jeffery Brock, president Volusia County Bar Association, and Stacia Warren of the the Florida Conference of County Court Judges.
Several members of the Jamaican community in Florida were also in attendance, as were relatives and friends from Jamaica who travelled up to the 'sunshine state' for the occasion.
APPOINTED
McGlashan was appointed by Governor Jeb Bush to the Seventh Judicial Circuit of Florida on December 8. He will sit on the Volusia County Bench, which covers criminal cases up to the misdemeanour level. He thereby became the third black to make it to the 14-member county bench.
A graduate of the University of Florida's law school, Peter McGlashan, 41, has had more than a decade's experience working as a trial lawyer with the State Prosecutor's office.
Born in St. James and raised in St. Elizabeth, he attended Munro College before pursuing his first degree in international relations at the University of the West Indies, Mona.
