HCBA Lawyer Magazine No. 34, Issue 1 | Page 3

THE HIllSBOROUGH COUNTY BAR ASSOCIATION

LAWYER

SEP - OCT 2003 | VOl . 34 , NO . 1

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Clerk­of­the­Court­ & ­Comptrollerby­Cindy­Stuart

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HCBA­President ’ s­Messageby­Alex­Caballero

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YLD­President ’ s­Messageby­­Sean­P . ­Bevil

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Executive­Director ’ s­Messageby­John­F . ­Kynes

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54 57 about the Cover

This Bar year , we are featuring our region ’ s many Courthouses on the cover of the Lawyer magazine . We start with one of the more recognizable and visited Courthouses in Hillsborough County , the George E . Edgecomb Courthouse in downtown Tampa . Built at a cost of $ 42.9 million , the courthouse at 800 E Twiggs St . is the first building in downtown Tampa named for an African-American . George Edgecomb was the first African-American county court judge in Hillsborough County . Raised by a single mother in public housing in Tampa , he was student body president at Middleton High School and Clark College ( junior and senior years ), and earned a law degree at Howard University . He was serving as a prosecutor — the county ' s first African-American in that role — when Gov . Rubin Askew named him to the bench in 1973 . Edgecomb died of leukemia three years later , at age 33 . Dedicated in January 2004 , the 332,000-square-foot Edgecomb Courthouse is the main building for Florida ' s 13th Judicial Circuit . It has a bronze bust of Edgecomb in its lobby , and a prominent statue , Veritas et Justitia ( Lady Justice ), outside its front doors .

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