Florida Senate - 2010                            (NP)    SR 2770
       
       
       
       By Senator Villalobos
       
       
       
       
       38-02451-10                                           20102770__
    1                          Senate Resolution                        
    2         A resolution honoring the Honorable Emiliano Jose
    3         “E.J.” Salcines, Jr., for his lifetime commitment to
    4         public service, education, and the administration of
    5         justice.
    6  
    7         WHEREAS, Emiliano Jose “E.J.” Salcines, Jr., was born in
    8  Tampa on July 18, 1938, to naturalized American citizens who
    9  moved to this country from Spain after World War I, and
   10         WHEREAS, E.J. Salcines, Jr., graduated from Riverside
   11  Military Academy in Gainesville, Georgia, and, in 1959, received
   12  his Bachelor of Arts degree from Florida Southern College, and
   13         WHEREAS, in 1963, E.J. Salcines, Jr., received his Doctor
   14  of Jurisprudence degree from South Texas College of Law, where
   15  he went on to serve for 16 years as a member of the Board of
   16  Trustees and where the “E.J. Salcines Student Lounge” is named
   17  in his honor, and
   18         WHEREAS, in 1963, E.J. Salcines, Jr., was named an
   19  Assistant State Attorney for Hillsborough County and, from 1964
   20  to 1968, served as an Assistant United States Attorney with the
   21  United States Department of Justice in the Middle District of
   22  Florida, and
   23         WHEREAS, in 1967, E.J. Salcines, Jr., was appointed as a
   24  special federal prosecutor for organized crime in the southern
   25  and midwestern states, and subsequently was elected four times
   26  and served for 16 years as the County Solicitor and State
   27  Attorney in Florida’s Thirteenth Judicial Circuit, and
   28         WHEREAS, E.J. Salcines, Jr., was a career federal and state
   29  prosecutor for 22 years and in private practice for 13 years
   30  before being appointed to the bench in the Second District Court
   31  of Appeal by then-Governor Lawton Chiles in 1998, and
   32         WHEREAS, E.J. Salcines, Jr., served with great distinction
   33  for 10 years as an appellate judge and continues to serve as a
   34  senior judge after reaching the mandatory retirement age of 70,
   35  and
   36         WHEREAS, E.J. Salcines, Jr., embraces his Spanish heritage
   37  and achieved many “firsts” as a Hispanic in his service as an
   38  attorney and as a jurist, and, in 1979, was knighted by King
   39  Juan Carlos of Spain into the Royal Order of Queen Isabella, and
   40         WHEREAS, in addition to his duties as a senior judge, E.J.
   41  Salcines, Jr., is an adjunct professor of law at Stetson
   42  University College of Law and has been a visiting lecturer on
   43  American law and the American court system at the University of
   44  Oviedo and the International University of Menendez-Pelayo in
   45  Spain and in venues in Spanish-speaking countries around the
   46  world, and
   47         WHEREAS, in 2008, E.J. Salcines, Jr., received the Champion
   48  of Justice Award from the Tampa Bay Trial Lawyers Association
   49  and the Good Government Award from the Hillsborough County Board
   50  of County Commissioners, which annually confers the “E.J.
   51  Salcines Lifetime Leadership Award” to outstanding leaders in
   52  the community, and
   53         WHEREAS, for more than 40 years, E.J. Salcines, Jr., has
   54  been writing, publishing, lecturing, and making radio and
   55  television appearances pertaining both to the law and to this
   56  nation’s rich Hispanic heritage, and
   57         WHEREAS, his love of the Tampa Bay area has led him to
   58  serve on numerous boards and committees, including his service
   59  as chair of the committee that oversaw the award-winning
   60  activities celebrating the 500th Anniversary of Christopher
   61  Columbus’s discovery of America, and
   62         WHEREAS, E.J. Salcines, Jr., has been recognized by the
   63  City of Tampa as its “Hispanic Man of the Year,” was awarded the
   64  Distinguished Service Award by the University of South Florida
   65  Foundation, and was the recipient of the President’s
   66  Distinguished Citizen Award given by the University of South
   67  Florida, NOW, THEREFORE,
   68  
   69  Be It Resolved by the Senate of the State of Florida:
   70  
   71         That the members of the Senate recognize Emiliano Jose
   72  “E.J.” Salcines, Jr., for his lifetime commitment to public
   73  service, education, and the administration of justice.
   74         BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a copy of this resolution, with
   75  the Seal of the Senate affixed, be presented to Emiliano Jose
   76  “E.J.” Salcines, Jr., as a tangible token of the sentiments of
   77  the Florida Senate.