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Preceded by
  
Roger Vinson

Succeeded by
  
Stephan P. Mickle

Role
  
Judge

Name
  
Robert Hinkle

Appointed by
  
Bill Clinton


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Preceded by
  
William Henry Stafford, Jr.

Alma mater
  
Florida State University Harvard Law School

Education
  
Harvard Law School, Florida State University

Robert Lewis Hinkle (born November 7, 1951) is a Senior United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Florida.

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Biography

Born in November 7, 1951, in Apalachicola, Florida, Hinkle received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Florida State University in 1972 and a Juris Doctor from Harvard Law School in 1976. He was a law clerk for Judge Irving Goldberg, United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit from 1976 to 1977. From 1977 to 1978, he was in private practice in Atlanta, Georgia, then practiced in Tallahassee, Florida from 1978 to 1996. He became an adjunct professor of law at Florida State University in 1981.

Federal judicial service

Hinkle was nominated by President Bill Clinton on June 6, 1996, to a seat vacated by William H. Stafford, Jr. of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Florida. He was confirmed by the United States Senate on July 25, 1996, and received his commission on August 1, 1996. He served as chief judge from 2004 to 2009. He took senior status on November 7, 2016.

Notable ruling

On August 21, 2014, Hinkle issued a ruling in Brenner v. Scott that denied the state defendants' motion to dismiss and granted the same-sex couple plaintiffs' motion for a preliminary injunction. In ordering the injunction, Judge Hinkle found that Florida's statutory and constitutional bans on same-sex marriage were federally unconstitutional.

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Robert Lewis Hinkle Wikipedia


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