Mary Barzee Flores, a shareholder at Stearns Weaver Miller Weissler Alhadeff & Sitterson and former Miami-Dade circuit judge, was nominated Thursday to the federal bench in the Southern District of Florida.

Barzee Flores has been a fixture in high-stakes litigation, most recently appearing as plaintiffs counsel in the Takata air bag multidistrict litigation newly assigned to U.S. District Judge Federico Moreno in Miami. She has been with Stearns Weaver since 2011, where she practices complex commercial and employment litigation.