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| October 11, 2007 |
By: Review staff |
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he wife of a top fundraiser for Gov. Charlie Crist has been appointed to the Miami-Dade Circuit Court bench.
Nushin G. Sayfie, 39, was appointed Tuesday by Crist to a term expiring Jan. 3, 2011. Crist passed over five other candidates, including two county court judges. The other finalists were: Miami attorneys Miguel de la O, Joseph Davis Jr., and Lisa Walsh, and Miami-Dade County Judges George Sarduy and Darrin Gayles.
Sayfie’s husband, Justin Sayfie, was a statewide finance co-chairman for Crist’s 2006 campaign and a senior policy adviser to former Gov. Jeb Bush. He is a founding shareholder of Blosser & Sayfie in Fort Lauderdale.
Nushin Sayfie was an assistant public defender in Miami-Dade County, where she worked two stints from 1994 to 1999 and from 2001 to the present. She was an assistant public defender in Tallahassee from 1999 to 2001.
Asked whether her family connections to Crist influenced Nushin Sayfie’s appointment to the bench, Crist spokesman Thomas Philpot said, “She was appointed on her own merits and her own qualifications.”
She replaces Christina Pereyra-Schuminer, who stepped down June 29 to become a television judge with Univision.
Before coming to Florida, Sayfie was an associate with Slotnick and Baker in New York from 1993 to 1994.
She has a bachelor’s degree from Georgetown University and a law degree from Fordham University.
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