Cuban-American Judge Among Candidates for the Supreme Court

September 22, 2020

The Cuban-American Bárbara Lagoa, daughter of Cuban migrants, is one of the candidates to replace the late Judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the Supreme Court of the United States.

Several American media outlets highlight this possibility in the list of candidates that President Donald Trump said he would announce soon, while South Florida points to the 52-year-old lawyer, who grew up in the Cuban neighborhood of Hialeah, in Miami-Dade County.

This conservative judge presents herself as a candidate who would encourage Florida's electorate, a key state for Trump's reelection against Democrat Joe Biden in the presidential elections next November.

Previously, Lagoa was nominated in January 2019 to the Florida Supreme Court by Governor Ron DeSantis and a few months later, by Trump to the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals, in Atlanta, a position she currently holds following a bipartisan vote without obstacles in the Senate.

The Cuban-American assumed her position on her state's Supreme Court on January 9 of last year, as the first Hispanic judge of the Florida Supreme Court, in the company of her parents, her husband and her three daughters, at the Freedom Tower in Miami, where the first waves of Cuban exiles were received.