County Commissioner Ashley Hofberger has appointed former Chief Magistrate Judge Elizabeth M. Timothy to serve as the District 4 representative on the Santa Rosa Island Authority.
From the Agenda item: “The Santa Rosa Island Authority administers the area known as Pensacola Beach. It is charged with the responsibility of beach maintenance, development of recreation facilities, adoption and enforcement of rules, regulations and improvements within this area. The Authority consists of six members of which five are appointed by each County Commissioner to serve a term concurrent with the nominating Commissioner. The sixth member shall be an Escambia County resident of the Santa Rosa Island elected at each general election by registered voters residing on Santa Rosa Island.”
Judge Timothy received the 2019 Distinguished Public Service Award Winner from Catholic University of America’s Columbus School of Law. She was appointed to serve as a United States Magistrate Judge for the Northern District of Florida in 2004. In 2012, Judge Timothy became the Chief Magistrate Judge for the Northern District of Florida and has served continuously until retired in 2022.
Prior to her appointment to the bench, Judge Timothy served as a state and federal public defender. She tried more than 100 jury trials to verdict on a wide variety of charges, including murder, rape, and other violent offenses; firearms and weapons offenses; drug conspiracies; and mail fraud, wire fraud, and other white-collar crimes. She achieved Board Certification as a Criminal Trial Attorney and attained an “AV” Martindale-Hubbell® Peer Review rating.
In Pensacola, Judge Timothy serves as the president of the Pensacola Inns of Court.
American Inns of Court (AIC) are designed to improve the skills, professionalism and ethics of the bench and bar. An American Inn of Court is an amalgam of judges, lawyers, and in some cases, law professors and law students. Each Inn meets approximately once a month both to “break bread” and to hold programs and discussions on matters of ethics, skills and professionalism.
The C. Roger Vinson American Inn of Court meets on the third Wednesday of each month from September through May. Meetings consist of an educational presentation prepared by one of the Inn’s teams and are generally held at either the Escambia County Courthouse or U.S. District Courthouse in Pensacola.
Since retirement, she is in private practice with Phillip A. Bates, P.A. Read Elizabeth Timothy Resume.
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