Bill Text: FL S2770 | 2010 | Regular Session | Introduced

Florida Senate Resolution 2770 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Honorable Emiliano Jose "E.J." Salcines, Jr.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-03-31 - Introduced -SJ 00372; Read 2nd time -SJ 00373; Adopted -SJ 00373 [S2770 Detail]

Download: Florida-2010-S2770-Introduced.html

 
       Florida Senate - 2010                            (NP)    SR 2770 
        
       By Senator Villalobos 
       38-02451-10                                           20102770__ 
    1                          Senate Resolution                         
    2         A resolution honoring the Honorable Emiliano Jose 
    3         “E.J.” Salcines, Jr., for his lifetime commitment to 
    4         public service, education, and the administration of 
    5         justice. 
    6   
    7         WHEREAS, Emiliano Jose “E.J.” Salcines, Jr., was born in 
    8  Tampa on July 18, 1938, to naturalized American citizens who 
    9  moved to this country from Spain after World War I, and 
   10         WHEREAS, E.J. Salcines, Jr., graduated from Riverside 
   11  Military Academy in Gainesville, Georgia, and, in 1959, received 
   12  his Bachelor of Arts degree from Florida Southern College, and 
   13         WHEREAS, in 1963, E.J. Salcines, Jr., received his Doctor 
   14  of Jurisprudence degree from South Texas College of Law, where 
   15  he went on to serve for 16 years as a member of the Board of 
   16  Trustees and where the “E.J. Salcines Student Lounge” is named 
   17  in his honor, and 
   18         WHEREAS, in 1963, E.J. Salcines, Jr., was named an 
   19  Assistant State Attorney for Hillsborough County and, from 1964 
   20  to 1968, served as an Assistant United States Attorney with the 
   21  United States Department of Justice in the Middle District of 
   22  Florida, and 
   23         WHEREAS, in 1967, E.J. Salcines, Jr., was appointed as a 
   24  special federal prosecutor for organized crime in the southern 
   25  and midwestern states, and subsequently was elected four times 
   26  and served for 16 years as the County Solicitor and State 
   27  Attorney in Florida’s Thirteenth Judicial Circuit, and 
   28         WHEREAS, E.J. Salcines, Jr., was a career federal and state 
   29  prosecutor for 22 years and in private practice for 13 years 
   30  before being appointed to the bench in the Second District Court 
   31  of Appeal by then-Governor Lawton Chiles in 1998, and 
   32         WHEREAS, E.J. Salcines, Jr., served with great distinction 
   33  for 10 years as an appellate judge and continues to serve as a 
   34  senior judge after reaching the mandatory retirement age of 70, 
   35  and 
   36         WHEREAS, E.J. Salcines, Jr., embraces his Spanish heritage 
   37  and achieved many “firsts” as a Hispanic in his service as an 
   38  attorney and as a jurist, and, in 1979, was knighted by King 
   39  Juan Carlos of Spain into the Royal Order of Queen Isabella, and 
   40         WHEREAS, in addition to his duties as a senior judge, E.J. 
   41  Salcines, Jr., is an adjunct professor of law at Stetson 
   42  University College of Law and has been a visiting lecturer on 
   43  American law and the American court system at the University of 
   44  Oviedo and the International University of Menendez-Pelayo in 
   45  Spain and in venues in Spanish-speaking countries around the 
   46  world, and 
   47         WHEREAS, in 2008, E.J. Salcines, Jr., received the Champion 
   48  of Justice Award from the Tampa Bay Trial Lawyers Association 
   49  and the Good Government Award from the Hillsborough County Board 
   50  of County Commissioners, which annually confers the “E.J. 
   51  Salcines Lifetime Leadership Award” to outstanding leaders in 
   52  the community, and 
   53         WHEREAS, for more than 40 years, E.J. Salcines, Jr., has 
   54  been writing, publishing, lecturing, and making radio and 
   55  television appearances pertaining both to the law and to this 
   56  nation’s rich Hispanic heritage, and 
   57         WHEREAS, his love of the Tampa Bay area has led him to 
   58  serve on numerous boards and committees, including his service 
   59  as chair of the committee that oversaw the award-winning 
   60  activities celebrating the 500th Anniversary of Christopher 
   61  Columbus’s discovery of America, and 
   62         WHEREAS, E.J. Salcines, Jr., has been recognized by the 
   63  City of Tampa as its “Hispanic Man of the Year,” was awarded the 
   64  Distinguished Service Award by the University of South Florida 
   65  Foundation, and was the recipient of the President’s 
   66  Distinguished Citizen Award given by the University of South 
   67  Florida, NOW, THEREFORE, 
   68   
   69  Be It Resolved by the Senate of the State of Florida: 
   70   
   71         That the members of the Senate recognize Emiliano Jose 
   72  “E.J.” Salcines, Jr., for his lifetime commitment to public 
   73  service, education, and the administration of justice. 
   74         BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a copy of this resolution, with 
   75  the Seal of the Senate affixed, be presented to Emiliano Jose 
   76  “E.J.” Salcines, Jr., as a tangible token of the sentiments of 
   77  the Florida Senate.