Patti Englander Henning
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Patti L. Englander Henning is a Civil Division judge of the 17th Judicial Circuit Court in Florida. She was elected on September 4, 1984, taking office the following January.[1][2] Henning was re-elected in 2008 and 2014, and her current six-year term expires on January 4, 2021.[3][4][5]
Elections
2014
See also: Florida judicial elections, 2014
Englander Henning ran for re-election to the Seventeenth Circuit Court.
As an unopposed candidate, she was automatically re-elected without appearing on the ballot.
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Education
Henning received her undergraduate degree from Cornell University and her J.D. degree from the University of Florida School of Law. She was admitted to the bar in 1976.[6]
Career
Henning served as a judge on the Broward County Court from 1981 until she joined the circuit court in 1985.[6]
Open records ruling
On November 4, Henning ruled in favor of the City of Hallandale Beach. The city had sued blogger Mike Butler after he submitted a request for records to the city under the Florida Sunshine Law[7][8]
Butler wanted a list of recipients of an email sent by Mayor Joy Cooper on February 17, 2009 from her personal America Online account. The subject line of the email was "Mayor Cooper's Update." The email included attachments to three columns written by Cooper for a weekly community newspaper addressing city policies. The email included Cooper's city hall address and phone number. These characteristics of the email led Butler to conclude that the email was a public document, even though it had been sent on Cooper's personal email account.[7]
The city responded with a lawsuit against Butler. On November 4, 2009, Judge Henning ruled in favor of the city.[9]
Butler characterized the ruling from Henning as "shocking" and said that it runs counter to an advisory opinion issued in 2007 from Bill McCollum, Florida's attorney general, which says that emails from public officials "that are intended to communicate, perpetuate or formalize knowledge" are public records, regardless of whether or not they are sent using a public or governmental email address.
Mayor Cooper said, "You're under the assumption that he's a good guy and he's the victim. But the victim is the city commission. I feel like my privacy has been raped."[7]
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Footnotes
- ↑ 17th Judicial Circuit Court, "Circuit Civil Judges," accessed November 28, 2014
- ↑ Florida Department of State, Division of Elections, "September 4, 1984 Primary Election Results," accessed November 28, 2014
- ↑ Florida Division of Elections, "Patti Englander Henning," 2008
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Florida Secretary of State, “Candidate Listing for 2014 General Election,” accessed May 5, 2014
- ↑ Judicial selection in Florida
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Lawdiary.com, "Biographies of State and County Court Judges in Florida," accessed May 7, 2014 Scroll to p.59
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 Sun Sentinel, "Score another win for weirdness in Hallandale," October 26, 2009
- ↑ Sun Sentinel, "Hallandale fights blogger seeking mayor's e-mail list," April 20, 2009
- ↑ Sun Sentinel, "Text of City of Hallandale Beach v. Michael Butler," November 9, 2009
Federal courts:
Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals • U.S. District Court: Middle District of Florida, Northern District of Florida, Southern District of Florida • U.S. Bankruptcy Court: Middle District of Florida, Northern District of Florida, Southern District of Florida
State courts:
Florida Supreme Court • Florida District Courts of Appeal • Florida Circuit Court • Florida County Court
State resources:
Courts in Florida • Florida judicial elections • Judicial selection in Florida
