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Emiliano Jose Salcines receives honorary
degree from Florida Southern College

LAKELAND, Fla. (April 26, 2002) - Second District Court of Appeal Judge Emiliano Jose Salcines of Tampa will receive an honorary degree of Doctor of Laws during Florida Southern College's graduation ceremony April 27. The commencement, at which 245 Lakeland day students will receive their degrees, takes place at 1:30 p.m. in the Jenkins Field House. Salcines will deliver the commencement address.

A 1959 graduate of Florida Southern, Salcines is being recognized for his distinguished career in the legal profession. He served the law as a career federal and state prosecutor for 22 years and in private practice for 13 years before being appointed as an appellate judge in 1998.

Salcines was elected four times over 16 years as State Attorney for the 13th Judicial Circuit. He served as Assistant U.S. Attorney of the U.S. Department of Justice in the Middle District of Florida and as a special federal prosecutor for organized crime in the southern and midwestern states.

Salcines created the first program on pre-trial intervention that has become the standard throughout Florida. He was appointed judge of the appellate court in 1998 and has received many high honors from his profession and community, including the 1974 Special Merit Award from the National District Attorneys Association as one of the outstanding prosecuting attorneys in the nation. He was knighted in 1979 by King Juan Carlos of Spain into the Royal Order of Queen Isabella and received the President's Distinguished Citizen award and the Distinguished Service Award from the University of South Florida.

About Florida Southern College
Florida Southern is a four-year, private, co-educational liberal arts college affiliated with the United Methodist Church. The college offers more than 40 undergraduate majors and a master of business administration degree accredited by the Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools. Located in Lakeland, Fla., the college is home to the largest, single-site collection of Frank Lloyd Wright architecture in the world.

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