Hon. Mary S. Scriven

Mary S. Scriven is a U.S. District Court Judge for the Middle District of Florida in Tampa, ap- pointed on Sept. 30, 2008, after serving as a magistrate judge for more than 10 years. She is the first African-American woman to serve on the federal court in the state of Florida and the second to serve on the federal court in the Eleventh Circuit. Prior to her judicial career, Judge Scriven was a shareholder with the law firm of Carlton, Fields, Ward, Emmanuel, Smith & Cutler, P.A., where she practiced for 10 years in its Corporate Litigation and Trade Regulation Department. From December 1996 through De- cember 1997, she served as an associate professor of law at Stetson University College of Law, teaching in the areas of commercial law, remedies, legal malpractice, banking law and contracts. Judge Scriven frequently lectures in trial advocacy, pretrial procedure and in commercial and criminal law courses and seminars. She is a former faculty member with NITA and has also served as a guest faculty member in the Masters Program for Trial Advocacy, Nottingham Law Institute, Nottingham, England. Judge Scriven is an honors graduate of Duke University and Florida State University College of Law, and in 2006 she received an Honorary Doctor of Laws from Stetson University College of Law.