The Role of the Courts in Interpreting the Constitution
Florida Supreme Court Justice Renatha Francis.
91Fans’s Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters presents the 2025 Constitution Day lecture, “The Role of the Courts in Interpreting the Constitution” with Florida Supreme Court Justice Renatha Francis on Monday, Sept. 15 at 10 a.m. in the Osher Lifelong Learning Society’s Barry and Florence Friedberg Auditorium, 777 Glades Road, Boca Raton campus.
Francis is the 92nd justice and the first Jamaican-American appointed to the state's highest court. She will share insights from her inspiring journey — from her early life in Kingston, Jamaica, to her distinguished legal career across Florida’s judicial system. This timely conversation will explore the role of the courts in American constitutional democracy.
This event is sponsored by FAU’s School of Communication and Multimedia Studies; Department of Political Science; Division of Student Affairs; and the Osher Lifelong Learning Society.
Tickets are $10 and are available at fauevents.com or 561-297-6124. Lifelong Learning students can purchase tickets through OLLI at FAU.
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