Florida Supreme Court Justice Renatha Francis.
BOCA RATON, Fla. (Aug. 11, 2025) – Florida Atlantic University’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.
The lecture will take place on Monday, Sept. 15, at 10 a.m. in the Osher Lifelong Learning Society’s Barry and Florence Friedberg Auditorium, Boca Raton campus, 777 Glades Road,. Tickets are $10 and are available at fauevents.com or by calling 561-297-6124. Lifelong Learning students can purchase tickets through OLLI at FAU.
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.
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About Florida Atlantic University:
Florida Atlantic University, established in 1961, officially opened its doors in 1964 as the fifth public university in Florida. Today, Florida Atlantic serves more than 30,000 undergraduate and graduate students across six campuses located along the Southeast Florida coast. In recent years, the University has doubled its research expenditures and outpaced its peers in student achievement rates. Through the coexistence of access and excellence, Florida Atlantic embodies an innovative model where traditional achievement gaps vanish. Florida Atlantic is designated as a Hispanic-serving institution, ranked as a top public university by U.S. News & World Report, and holds the designation of “R1: Very High Research Spending and Doctorate Production” by the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education. Florida Atlantic shares this status with less than 5% of the nearly 4,000 universities in the United States. For more information, visit www.fau.edu.
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