Milton Hirsch

Hon. Milton Hirsch has been a judge of the 11th Judicial Circuit of Florida since January of 2011.

In 2013, Judge Hirsch was the recipient of the Gerald Kogan Judicial Distinction Award, the highest award given to a member of the judiciary by the Miami Chapter of the Florida Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers; in 2014, he was the recipient of the Theodore Klein award, the highest award conferred by the Miami Chapter of the Florida Association for Women Lawyers; in 2016, he received the Dade County Bar Association’s Criminal Justice Award; in 2017 the Miami Jewish Legal Society conferred the Shofet Tzedek (“righteous judge”) award upon him; and in 2018 he received the Jay and Marilyn Weinberg Rule of Law Award at the annual Project Nuremberg event sponsored by the South Palm Beach County Bar Association, Lynn University, and Temple Beth El.

Judge Hirsch is the author of numerous law review articles; and his first novel, The Shadow of Justice, was the 2005 winner of the Midwestern Independent Publishers Award for best novel in the mystery/fiction category, and runner-up for the Benjamin Franklin Award for best new voice in American fiction.

The Shadow of Justice is now available on Amazon Kindle. See https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07H1M9G54/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1535838169&sr=1-1&keywords=Milton+Hirsch; as is the sequel novel, entitled Laredo Slider. See https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07H1KNMPM/ref=sr_1_3?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1535838261&sr=1-3&keywords=Milton+Hirsch.

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Judge Hirsch looks forward to his beloved Chicago Cubs winning the World Series again in another 108 years.