HISTORICAL SOCIETY EVENTS
‘A Supreme Evening 2024’ to Feature Former U.S. Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales
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he Historical Society’s annual fundraiser, A Supreme Evening 2024, is set for January 18, and will feature a fireside chat with former U.S. Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales, moderated by Florida Supreme Court Justice John D. Couriel. Sponsorships and dinner reservations are now being accepted at FlCourtHistory.org. Gonzales served as the 80th attorney general of the United States during the George W. Bush administration — the nation's first Hispanic attorney general. He is currently the dean and Doyle Rogers distinguished professor of law at Belmont University College of Law in Nashville, Tenn. Historical Society President Tim Chinaris, an attorney and law professor at Belmont, arranged the program. “We look forward to welcoming Dean Gonzales to Tallahassee in January for an in-depth conversation about his life and career. With a long history of public
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service, he will share his unique perspective as a former U.S. attorney general and counsel to the president — the only Hispanic American to have held either of these positions,” Chinaris said. Gonzales is an Air Force veteran and attended the U.S. Air Force Academy. He is a graduate of Rice University and Harvard Law School. Before entering public service, Gonzales practiced business law at the Houston law firm of Vinson & Elkins. In 1995, he resigned his law partnership to serve as general counsel to then-Texas Governor George W. Bush. After three years, Gov. Bush appointed Gonzales as Texas secretary of state. He was subsequently appointed as a justice on the Texas Supreme Court and elected by the citizens of Texas to serve a full six-year term in the November 2000 general election. After Bush became president, he appointed Gonzales as White House counsel in 2001. Gonzales served as U.S. attorney general from 2005-
