MIAMI – Gov. Ron DeSantis appointed two Floridians from minority communities to the state Supreme Court on Tuesday: a Palm Beach County circuit judge who immigrated from Jamaica and a former assistant U.S.
attorney who is the son of Cuban immigrants. Renatha Francis, who will be the first Caribbean-American to serve on the Florida court, and John Couriel are replacing Barbara Lagoa and Robert Luck.
DeSantis appointed Lagoa and Luck to the court last year, but they were subsequently appointed to the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals by President Donald Trump.
DeSantis, a Republican, said at a Miami news conference that he picked them because he believes they will make their decisions based on the law, not their own preferences.