Rosemary Barkett served as the first woman on the Florida Supreme Court, a federal appellate judge and now a judge in The Hague — but before all that, she was an immigrant.
Barkett spent the first six years of her life in Mexico before she and her Syrian-born parents arrived in Miami. Immigration has always been close to her heart, but perhaps never more than it is now, she said in a fiery Florida Bar convention speech Friday that urged attorneys to uphold American values of accepting those oppressed and threatened in their home countries.
