{"id":117901,"date":"2026-01-14T15:44:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T15:44:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/117901\/"},"modified":"2026-01-14T15:44:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T15:44:13","slug":"governor-picks-adam-tanenbaum-to-fill-supreme-court-opening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/117901\/","title":{"rendered":"Governor picks Adam Tanenbaum to fill Supreme Court opening"},"content":{"rendered":"

Gov.\u00a0Ron DeSantis<\/a> continues to put his stamp on the Florida Supreme Court, appointing\u00a0Adam Tanenbaum to fill the opening left last year by recently retired Justice Charles Canady.<\/p>\n

DeSantis made the announcement at Seminole High School, Tanenbaum\u2019s alma mater, where the jurist was student body president and graduated as valedictorian.<\/p>\n

DeSantis appointed Tanenbaum to the 1st District Court of Appeal in October 2019 and clearly liked what he has seen since, elevating the jurist from a crowded field of qualified applicants.<\/p>\n

DeSantis said he was particularly impressed with Tanenbaum\u2019s knowledge of state government and \u201cstrong background,\u201d saying the newest Supreme Court Justice understands the executive branch better than the Governor himself.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was talking to some of my guys after I interviewed the Judge. It\u2019s like, we\u2019ve got 23-plus million people, you know, in the state of Florida. And I would guarantee you, you will not find 10 people out of that 23 million who know more about Florida government \u2014 not just law, and the Supreme Court and courts, but the agencies, the legislative branch, all that \u2014 than Judge Tanenbaum. He knows this stuff very, very well,\u201d DeSantis said.<\/p>\n

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Prior to becoming a Judge, Tanenbaum worked in commercial litigation and served as a state and federal public defender, General Counsel for the Florida Department of State, and chief deputy solicitor general at the Florida Department of Legal Affairs.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s had a really distinguished legal career,\u201d DeSantis said.<\/p>\n

Tanenbaum graduated from the University of Florida as a co-valedictorian, was a member of Florida Blue Key, and later earned his law degree from Georgetown.<\/p>\n

He is DeSantis\u2019 sixth pick for the high court and will ensure the Governor\u2019s conservative judicial philosophy prevails long after he leaves office in November.<\/p>\n

\u201cSomeone could be on the court for 20, 30 years,\u201d DeSantis said, going on to express confidence that Tanenbaum had the \u201ccourage\u201d and \u201cwarrior spirit\u201d to make tough rulings \u201cwhen it may not be as popular to do so.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cI wholeheartedly embrace your vision, Governor, and I am honored and humbled that you would entrust me with what likely is your capstone appointment to our state\u2019s high court,\u201d Tanenbaum said, before offering some autobiographical context as to why the setting of the announcement was so important to him.<\/p>\n

\u201cI graduated in 1989. The same year the \u2018Stranger Things\u2019 kids did, as a matter of fact. And the same year that Taylor Swift was born. I gave a valedictorian speech and crossed the stage on a football field, not far away from this room, about 37 years ago. Never did I expect that I would be back here, in this building, with the Governor of the state of Florida, doing this.\u201d<\/p>\n

Tanenbaum discussed how his parents fostered his independent spirit, then fought back tears as he paid tribute to his deceased grandparents. He also offered an emotional testimonial to his wife on the day before their wedding anniversary.<\/p>\n

He also\u00a0grounded his judicial philosophy in that of DeSantis\u2019 favorite living judge, Clarence Thomas, saying he\u2019d be an originalist and wouldn\u2019t be afraid to overrule erroneous precedent when necessary.<\/p>\n

\u201cSometimes, the circumstances require boldness to restore our jurisprudence to its historical roots. Choosing not to do this is not judicial restraint. Judicial restraint describes how the court should approach the work of the other two branches. With respect for separation of powers, and for the limited scope of the judicial power, basically to conclusively adjudicate one dispute at a time by ascertaining and correctly applying the originally fixed meaning of the law. Restraint does not, and should not, describe the court\u2019s approach to correcting demonstrably erroneous lines of decision that only it has the power to correct,\u201d Tanenbaum said.<\/p>\n

He also pledged to look at \u201cwrong and inefficient\u201d practices in administrative law.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe court should continue to exercise its constitutional authority, to look at the different administrative components that the court supervises and make any necessary changes to ensure. those components are efficiently pursuing the court\u2019s established values and vision. Steps already have been taken on this front by my soon to be colleagues, and I look forward to joining them in the ongoing endeavor.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gov.\u00a0Ron DeSantis continues to put his stamp on the Florida Supreme Court, appointing\u00a0Adam Tanenbaum to fill the opening…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":117902,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[59314,32321,55415,28,30,29,17867,412,3883],"class_list":["post-117901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-adam-tanenbaum","tag-charles-canady","tag-first-district-court-of-appeal","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-florida-supreme-court","tag-ron-desantis","tag-seminole"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117901\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/117902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}