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Who is Barbara Lagoa?

By Carrie Severino | September 13, 2019

Justice Barbara Lagoa is President Trump’s nominee to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit from Florida. Currently a justice on the Supreme Court of Florida, Lagoa is the only child of immigrant parents who fled Fidel Castro’s Cuba in 1966, arriving in the United States via one of the “Freedom Flights”—a refugee program that transported Cubans to the U.S. between 1965 and 1973. Lagoa was born in Miami and raised in Hialeah, Florida—a predominantly Cuban community.  She has said that she “rode her bike and roller-skated down the streets and the sidewalks of Hialeah under the watchful eye of [her] grandmother while [her] parents worked long hours …”

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Filed Under: In The News, JCN Bench Memo Tagged With: Carrie, Carrie Severino, Constitution, Democrat Senators, JCN, Judges, Judicial Crisis Network, National Review

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