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    • To permanently honor outstanding and notable alumni of the University of Florida Levin College of Law and their contributions to the state and University, the Law Center Association Board of Trustees established the Heritage of Leadership Recognition Society. The Selection Committee determined the initial classes of inductees, barring exceptional circumstances, would be honored posthumously.

    Class of 2018

    Charles Fulton (1910-1996)

    Charles FultonClass of 1935. West Palm Beach attorney turned federal judge, Charles Fulton, spent his professional life dedicated to enriching the dignity and honor of the legal profession. 

    After graduating from UF Law in 1935, he founded his own practice in South Florida before being named an Assistant State Attorney General in 1942. That same year, Fulton put his career on hold to serve in the United States Navy as an aviator during World War II. 

    Four years later he reestablished his practice and became known as one of Florida’s most prominent attorneys. He would go on to serve as President of The Florida Bar Association in 1961 and serve five terms on The Florida Bar Board of Governors. 

    In 1963, Fulton was appointed by President John F. Kennedy to the U.S. District Court in the Southern District of Florida. 

    Fulton served as chief judge from 1966-1977 and assumed senior status in 1978. 

    Fulton served as President of the Palm Beach County Bar Association. He served as a member of the American Bar Association, The Florida Bar Executive Committee, chair of the Committee on Legal Institutes and Continuing Education, general counsel for the Port of Palm Beach District Board of Commissioners and president, general counsel and chairman of the board for the Home Federal Savings and Loan Association of Palm Beach.  

    Fulton graduated from Lake Worth High School and went on to earn a degree from Washington and Lee University.

     

    Mandell Glicksberg (1928-2015)

    Mandell GlicksbergClass of 1951. During his 44-year tenure as a UF Law faculty member, Mandell Glicksberg helped shape the minds of generations of Florida attorneys, teaching them the importance of professionalism and dedication to the law. At the time of his retirement in 1997, Glicksberg had taught more students than any other professor in the school’s 81-year history.

    After graduating from UF Law in 1951, Glicksberg began his legal career in private practice in Miami Beach before joining the Judge Advocate General program as an Air Force First Lieutenant. Glicksberg retired with the rank of Lieutenant Colonel after serving two decades in the Air Force Reserves.

    After his retirement, the Double Gator returned to his roots. He joined the UF Law faculty, teaching legal ethics, constitutional law, property law and sports law. He also served as the Florida Law Review’s faculty advisor. His tenure earned him the Instructor Excellence Award and the Professor Emeritus designation.

    During his professional career, Glickbserg served as a member of The Florida Bar’s Executive Council of The Florida Bar Real Property, Probate & Trust Law Section, co-chair of the Real Property Problems, chaired the Section’s Committee on Liaison with Land Surveyors and served as a former member of the Section’s Legislation Committee.

    He also served as president of the University Athletic Association Board of Directors, UF’s faculty representative to the National Collegiate Athletics Association for 25 years, and the Southeastern Conference. A member of the SEC Executive Committee and eventually Secretary of the SEC. His work included executing Title IX compliance in women’s sports programs.

    Glicksberg graduated from Miami Beach Senior High School in 1945. He went on to graduate from the University of Florida with a degree in psychology in 1949 before attending UF Law.

    In law school, Glicksberg served on the UF Honor Court, as Notes and Comments Editor of the Florida Law Review, a member of Florida Blue Key, and was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa.

    In 2000, Glicksberg was inducted into the UF Athletic Hall of Fame as an honorary member.

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    The Florida Constitutional Law Endowment in memory of Justice Ben F. Overton was created by Judge Karen Miller in 2013. This fund supports lectures and presentations by Justices of the Florida Supreme Court at the Fredric G. Levin College of Law.

    HISTORY

    Justice Overton, who earned his B.S. in 1951 and his Juris Doctor in 1952 from the University of Florida, was the first merit appointment to the Florida Supreme Court. Throughout his career he was active in legal education and served as an Adjunct Professor at the Levin College of Law through December 2012, the month of his death. Although he resided at Oak Hammock at the University of Florida, a continuing care retirement community developed in cooperation with UF, he also considered the Florida Supreme Court “home.” Among the high points of his later years was hosting Justices of the Florida Supreme Court in Gainesville and taking his class to Tallahassee to hear oral arguments at the Florida Supreme Court.
    Judge Miller, who earned her B.S. cum laude from New York University in 1974 and her Juris Doctor from New York Law School in 1977, served as Chief Administrative Law Judge of the New York City Department of Consumer Affairs, New York City’s business regulatory agency, before she retired to Oak Hammock at the University of Florida. Having accompanied Justice Overton on his excursions to Tallahassee and joined him in welcoming guests to Oak Hammock at the University of Florida, she created the endowment in memory of Justice Overton to ensure that the Levin College of Law continues to have the funding necessary to continue and enhance the interaction between its students and the Florida Supreme Court.

     

    Judge Miller remembered the event that motivated the endowment.

     

    Prior to a dinner at the home of Dean Robert Jerry and Lisa Jerry shortly after Justice Overton’s death, Justice Barbara Pariente and I were discussing a suitable memorial. Justice Pariente, who had been Justice Overton’s colleague on the Florida Supreme Court and who understood the importance to him of the interaction between his students and the Court, suggested the outline of what has become the Overton lectures. Dean Jerry, who has since retired, as has Dean Emeritus Jon Mills, who assumed responsibility for implementing the Overton lectures, were very supportive from the beginning. Since Dean Mills’ retirement, Professor Timothy McClendon, who assisted both Justice Overton and Dean Mills teaching Florida Constitutional Law and who co-authored the recent Florida Constitutional Law casebook, has continued the Overton lectures with the support of Interim Dean Merritt McAlister and CGR director, Professor Danaya Wright.

    Justice Overton was a devoted jurist, educator, and ethical leader of the Florida legal profession. The Overton Lecture Series brings Florida Supreme Court Justices to the University of Florida, Levin College of Law, and serves to introduce students to the inner workings of the Court. CGR and the students of the College of Law extend our deepest gratitude to Judge Karen Miller for making the Overton Lectures possible in perpetuity.

    You can watch an interview for the Florida Historical Society by Mary Adkins, professor emeritus of the UF Levin College of Law, with Justice Overton here.

    Justice Overton was also interviewed for the Samuel Proctor Oral History Project and a transcript of his interview is available at the Smathers Library, and here.
    Justice Overton sat on the Constitution Revision Commission of 1977-78 that proposed a right to privacy in the Florida Constitution. Although it failed as part of the Constitution Revision Commission recommendations, it passed in 1980 when proposed by the legislature. The bill was co-sponsored by our very own Jon Mills. The privacy provision prevailed by greater than 60%. Justice Overton then wrote a concurrence in a critical reproductive rights case in 1989 affirming that the privacy provision of the Florida Constitution included the right to obtain an abortion. That decision was overruled in Planned Parenthood of SW and Central Florida v. Florida. You can read about the role of Justice Overton, Jon Mills – director emeritus of CGR, and the history of the 1989 case here.