The application also asked: “Do you now or have you ever belonged to any club or organization that in practice or policy restricts (or restricted during the time of your membership) its membership on the basis of race, religion, national origin or sex?”
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When the Judicial Nominating Commission application asked Grosshans to "list all Bar associations and professional societies of which you are a member,'' Grosshans did not list the Alliance or the Blackstone Legal Fellowship program in her answer.īut on the web page of her law firm in 2017, Plant Street Law, she touted the affiliation: “She is a Blackstone Fellow with the Alliance Defense Fund, serves on the Board of Directors for the Central Florida Christian Legal Society, and is an active member of her community.” Only when the court declared Francis ineligible did Grosshans catapult to the position she coveted.Īccording to both applications obtained by the Times/Herald, Grosshans omitted her association with the powerful Alliance Defending Freedom and its prestigious fellowship. Grosshans, 41, landed on the shortlist for DeSantis twice, but was passed over last year and again this year when he named Renatha Francis and John Couriel in May to replace Luck and Lagoa. A year later, Scott named her to the Fifth District Court of Appeal and within months she had assembled her first application to the Florida Supreme Court. Her husband, Joshua Grosshans, was a member of the Judicial Nominating Commission that nominated her. Grosshans was first appointed to be a county judge by then-Gov. "Judge Grosshans is known as a member of the school-choice, home-school, pro-life community and is thought of very highly in those communities,'' he said.
Grosshans' background and affiliation with the Christian-based organizations may not have been spelled out on her application, but were no surprise to the legal community that promoted her, said William Large, president of the Florida Justice Reform Institute, an organization that advocates for tort reform. Its web site declares: “Marriage has always been a union between one man and one woman” and, “Opponents of marriage will not stop at removing the foundation of civilization.” Supreme Court ruled that the birth control mandate in employee-funded health plans was unconstitutional. Hobby Lobby, the landmark case in which the U.S. Notably, the group represented the petitioner in the Masterpiece Cakeshop case where a Colorado baker refused to serve a gay couple, and the petitioner in Burwell v.
It trains lawyers and funds cases on abortion, religion, tuition tax credits, and LGBTQ issues. The Alliance Defending Freedom is a national organization that, according to its website “exists to keep the doors open for the Gospel by advocating for religious liberty, the sanctity of human life, freedom of speech, and marriage and family.” Both times Grosshans applied to the state’s high court, she left out some details on her application: specifically her membership in the Alliance Defending Freedom, her work as a Blackstone Fellow, a prestigious but secretive national award that trains rising star lawyers in the conservative teachings of the Alliance Defending Freedom, and her 2011 work with Orlando attorney John Stemberger to prevent a young woman from having an abortion.
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