Información sobre el juez Gold

Esta información apareció en The Miami Herald, el sábado 28 de junio de 1997.

DAVID LYONS
Herald Staff Writer

Dade Circuit Judge Alan S. Gold won U.S. Senate approval late Friday for a seat on the federal bench in South Florida, and will start as soon as he takes the oath of office, Sen. Bob Graham said.
Gold, 53, will replace U.S. District Judge Jose Gonzalez Jr., who took senior status within the past year. The judge was confirmed by the Senate Judiciary Committee early last month after being nominated in February by President Clinton.
Gold spent 15 years as an attorney in the Miami office of Greenberg, Traurig, Hoffman, Lipoff, Rosen and Quentel. He served four years as an assistant Dade attorney and has presided over state court cases since 1992. He served mainly in the criminal division, but most recently he served in the court's family division. Originally appointed to the state bench in 1992 by Gov. Lawton Chiles, Gold was defeated in the judicial elections later that year. But Chiles reappointed him.
The judge is a Coral Gables resident who is married and has two adult daughters. He is now on vacation and unavailable for comment.
A 1966 graduate of the University of Florida, Gold received his law degree in 1969 from Duke University, and holds a master's in taxation from the University of Miami School of Law. Since 1989, he has served as an adjunct professor at UM.
"Judge Gold will serve Florida's southern judicial district with honor, dedication and excellence, " Graham said in a statement. "The people of South Florida will soon have the benefit of his nearly 26 years of legal and judicial experience."
Gold will find a criminal court docket loaded with drug trafficking and money laundering cases, as well as a heavy civil docket. To date, approximately 2,000 civil actions have been filed this year in the southern district, which stretches from Key West to Vero Beach.
Fotografía: viajeros a Cuba en el Aeropuerto Internacional de Miami, el 1 de julio de 2008 (Roberto Koltun/El Nuevo Herald).