Justice Major B. Harding To Speak At Spring Phi Beta Kappa Alumni Meeting

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

JACKSONVILLE, FLORIDA
March 16, 2013

JUSTICE MAJOR B. HARDING

"Living Right Side Up In An Upside Down World" - Justice Major B. Harding

Retired Florida Supreme Court Justice Major B. Harding will be the Keynote Speaker for the annual spring banquet of the Phi Beta Kappa  Alumni Association of Northeast Florida (PBKAA) to be held on April 18, 2013.

Justice Harding's topic will be: "Living Right Side Up In An Upside Down World."

Come join us for an evening of fun and fellowship while supporting the PBKAA scholarship fund.  Read more about the Alumni Scholarship Fund click here.  The cost of the dinner is $40 per person. The PBKAA is a 501 (c) 3 Charity. Any donations made above the cost of the dinner are tax deductible.

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ABOUT JUSTICE MAJOR HARDING

Governor Lawton Chiles appointed Justice Major B. Harding to the Florida Supreme Court on January 22, 1991.  He became Chief Justice of the Florida Supreme Court in July 1998 and served in this capacity through June 2000.

Justice Harding received his Bachelor of Science degree and Bachelor of Laws degree from Wake Forest University in 1957 and 1959, respectively.

FLORIDA SUPREME COURT JUSTICES
(CHIEF JUSTICE MAJOR B. HARDING - Bottom Center)

As a native of Charlotte, North Carolina, he began his tenure on the bench in Florida with his 1968 appointment as a Duval County juvenile court judge.  In 1970, he was appointed to the circuit bench in the Fourth Judicial Circuit in Jacksonville, was elected Chief Judge in 1974 and re-elected Chief Judge in 1975.  While a Circuit Judge, he was consistently rated at the top of the annual judicial polls of the Jacksonville Bar Association.  At the time of his appointment to the Florida Supreme Court, he was the Dean of the Florida Judicial College and Chair-Elect of the Florida Conference of Circuit Judges.

In 1995, he attained his Masters of Laws in Judicial Process at the University of Virginia School of Law.  Additionally, Justice Harding received his Honorary Doctor of Laws degree from Stetson University in 1991 and from Florida Coastal School of Law in 1999.

Justice Harding and his wife Jane reside in Tallahassee, Florida.