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'{{short description|American lawyer; Justice of the Florida Supreme Court}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = John D. Couriel | image = John D. Couriel (cropped).jpg | office = Justice of the [[Supreme Court of Florida]] | appointer = [[Ron DeSantis]] | term_start = June 1, 2020 | term_end = | succeeding = | predecessor = [[Barbara Lagoa]] | successor = | birth_name = | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1978|03|23}} | birth_place = [[Miami]], [[Florida]], U.S. | death_date = | death_place = | education = [[Harvard University]] ([[Bachelor of Arts|AB]], [[Juris Doctor|JD]]) | party = [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]] }} '''John Daniel Couriel''' (born March 23, 1978)<ref name="Questionnaire">{{Cite web |title=Application for Nomination to the Florida Supreme Court |url=https://www-media.floridabar.org/uploads/2019/12/Couriel_Redacted.pdf |date=December 23, 2019 |website=[[The Florida Bar]] |access-date=May 26, 2020}}</ref> is a justice of the [[Supreme Court of Florida]]. == Education and legal career== Couriel received a [[Bachelor of Arts]] from [[Harvard College]], and a [[Juris Doctor]] from [[Harvard Law School]]. He began his legal career as a [[law clerk]] to Judge [[John D. Bates]] of the [[United States District Court for the District of Columbia]]. He served as an [[Assistant United States Attorney]] for the [[United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida|Southern District of Florida]], and was a partner at Kobre & Kim in [[Miami]] before being appointed to the bench.<ref name="Questionnaire" /> Couriel previously interviewed to become [[United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida]] and to serve as a federal district judge for the Southern District of Florida. He unsuccessfully ran for the [[Florida Senate]]'s 35th District in 2012 where he lost to incumbent [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democrat]] [[Gwen Margolis]] 62-38%, and for the [[Florida House of Representatives]]' 114th District in 2016, this time narrowly losing to Democrat [[Daisy Baez]] 51-49%. == Florida Supreme Court == On May 26, 2020, [[Governor of Florida]] [[Ron DeSantis]] announced his appointment of Couriel to serve as a justice of the [[Supreme Court of Florida]].<ref>{{Cite press release |title=Governor Ron DeSantis Appoints John D. Couriel to the Florida Supreme Court |date=May 26, 2020 |url=https://www.flgov.com/2020/05/26/governor-ron-desantis-appoints-john-d-couriel-to-the-florida-supreme-court/}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.tampabay.com/florida-politics/buzz/2020/05/26/ron-desantis-announces-two-more-appointments-to-the-florida-supreme-court/ |title=Ron DeSantis Announces two More Appointments to the Florida Supreme Court |last=Wilson |first=Kirby |date=May 26, 2020 |website=[[Tampa Bay Times]] |publisher= |access-date=May 26, 2020 |quote=}}</ref> == References == {{Reflist}} == External links == * {{Ballotpedia|John_D._Couriel|John D. Couriel}} {{s-start}} {{s-legal}} {{s-bef|before=[[Barbara Lagoa]]}} {{s-ttl|title={{nowrap|Justice of the [[Supreme Court of Florida]]}}|years=2020–present}} {{s-inc}} {{s-end}} {{Florida statewide political officials}} {{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Couriel, John Daniel}} [[Category:1978 births]] [[Category:Living people]] [[Category:21st-century American lawyers]] [[Category:21st-century American judges]] [[Category:Assistant United States Attorneys]] [[Category:Federalist Society members]] [[Category:Florida lawyers]] [[Category:Florida Republicans]] [[Category:Justices of the Florida Supreme Court]] [[Category:Harvard College alumni]] [[Category:Harvard Law School alumni]] [[Category:Lawyers from Miami]] {{Florida-state-judge-stub}}'