{"id":2279,"date":"2026-05-31T18:38:37","date_gmt":"2026-05-31T18:38:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orlandorelocationreport.com\/?p=2279"},"modified":"2026-05-31T18:38:37","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T18:38:37","slug":"r-fred-lewis-florida-supreme-court-justice-and-champion-for-disadvantaged-has-died","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orlandorelocationreport.com\/?p=2279","title":{"rendered":"R. Fred Lewis, Florida Supreme Court justice and champion for disadvantaged, has died"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<p>R. Fred Lewis, one of the last liberal lions of the\u00a0Florida Supreme Court, whose youth as a coal miner\u2019s son and devotion to a daughter born with severe disabilities engendered an abiding concern for the unpowerful and unprotected, died on\u00a0Tuesday, May 26. He was 78.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/orlandorelocationreport.com\/?p=2277\">A United Airlines flight to Spain turns back to Newark after a possible security threat midair<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Lewis was appointed by then-Gov.\u00a0Lawton Chiles\u00a0in 1998 and served as chief justice from 2006 to 2008. He retired from the court in 2019, and began a teaching career at\u00a0Florida Southern College, his alma mater, where he also oversaw what he considered his crowning achievement, the Justice Teaching initiative, a curriculum for school children that encouraged civic and legal engagement.<\/p>\n<p>During his tenure on the state\u2019s highest court, Lewis saw it as his duty to reform legal practices and barriers that prevented people with special needs from accessing services and protections that other Floridians took for granted. He assembled a task force that surveyed courthouses throughout\u00a0Florida\u00a0to identify structures and practices that impeded access to justice for people with disabilities. He convened the first commission to improve the treatment of people with mental illness within the court system.<\/p>\n<p>Retired Justice\u00a0Harry Lee Anstead, who served with Lewis during some of the Supreme Court\u2019s most tumultuous times, said the two men became dear friends \u201con and off the court\u201d \u2014 including the tennis court, where they competed for years. He called his friend remarkable, \u201cfor his character and passion for justice.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When Lewis was\u00a0named chief justice\u00a0in 2006, he hung a sign at the entrance to the court that read, roughly, \u201cTell us how we can move the cause of justice forward through the issues in your case,\u201d Anstead recalls.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEvery lawyer present for oral arguments that day couldn\u2019t avoid reading that sign,\u201d said Anstead. It invited litigants to view their appearance before the seven justices as an avenue toward something higher, something meaningful. \u201cIt was an approach that extended to both the mundane, like an automobile accident, and to the possibility of the death penalty being imposed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGreat leaders know only one way to lead,\u201d Anstead said, \u201cand that\u2019s by example. Without that, nobody would have the credibility to preach about high standards and justice.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lewis \u201csustained a terrible fall\u201d last week, breaking his spine \u2014 \u201can injury from which he was unable to recover,\u201d his family said.<\/p>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<p>A Supreme Court spokesman said Lewis will lie in state within the\u00a0Florida Supreme Court\u00a0rotunda from\u00a011 a.m. to 1 p.m.\u00a0on\u00a0June 11.\u00a0Chief Justice Carlos Mu\u00f1iz\u00a0will give remarks as members of the court \u201cwill ceremonially receive the body.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lewis cut an unlikely path to the highest court. Born in the mountain town of\u00a0Beckley, West Virginia, much of Lewis\u2019 family worked in the coal mines. Initially, sports were his ticket out. Blessed with an imposing stature and athleticism, Lewis attended\u00a0Florida Southern College, a private Methodist school in\u00a0Lakeland, on a combined athletic and academic scholarship, playing basketball and baseball, and serving as president of his sophomore, junior and senior classes. He was the first in his family to earn a college degree.<\/p>\n<p>He enrolled in the\u00a0University of Miami\u2019s law school, also under scholarship, in 1969, graduating third in his class. He remained in\u00a0Miami\u00a0to practice law, working in defense of insurance companies, and later as an appellate lawyer who represented both industry and those who believed they were harmed by it.<\/p>\n<p>He kept a jar of coal on his desk, and a lithograph of a coal miner on his wall while a partner at his Miami law firm, Kuvin, Lewis, Restani and Stettin. When introduced as a new justice by Chiles in 1998, he said his proudest moment was on behalf of a woman seeking stem cell treatment for breast cancer. His victory over\u00a0Blue Cross\/Blue Shield\u00a0allowed 30 other women to be treated with the procedure without filing suit.<\/p>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Lindsay Lewis, the younger of Fred and Judy Lewis\u2019 two daughters, was born with a rare genetic disorder that left her deaf, nearly blind, and suffering from a constellation of other serious disabilities. She sat in a wheelchair next to him during the press conference in which Chiles introduced him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe understands the struggles, difficulties and challenges that many citizens face every day,\u201d Chiles said at the media conference.<\/p>\n<p>When Lewis applied for the open seat on the court, he wrote: \u201cI have learned to transform the suffocating stares and ridiculing comments due to my daughter\u2019s abnormal behavior into an understanding by others of her human condition.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have learned together to appreciate art work and music through the touch of our fingers and the positioning of our faces against the source of the sound,\u201d he added. \u201cHer human spirit has taught me more about life than I ever thought possible.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As Chiles\u2019 general counsel,\u00a0Dan Stengle\u00a0submitted Lewis\u2019 name to the governor as one of five candidates for the court\u2019s vacant seat. Faced with a tough decision, Chiles vacillated. \u201cI think you wanted to appoint\u00a0Fred Lewis\u00a0since you interviewed him,\u201d he said he told the governor. \u201cHis authenticity. His humility,\u201d Stengle said. \u201cThere was just a connection.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The appointment was one of Chiles\u2019 final acts in office before his death. \u201cChiles put him on the Supreme Court and he had not even been a judge.\u201d The appointment was virtually unheard of, Stengle said.<\/p>\n<p>Friends and family members said Lewis brought a bit of\u00a0Beckley, West Virginia, with him to the high court. But his children were never far away.\u00a0Lindsay Lewis\u00a0frequently accompanied her dad to\u00a0Florida Bar\u00a0gatherings and other appearances, and he introduced her proudly when lawyers and others approached to shake his hand.<\/p>\n<p>Lewis was unapologetic about his efforts to use the courts as a vehicle for improving the lives of ordinary Floridians, and especially those who struggled.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/orlandorelocationreport.com\/?p=2275\">ASK IRA: Can Magic, with Paolo Banchero, trump a Heat bid for Giannis?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>He encountered an exhibition of photographs by abused and neglected children in foster care \u2014 the kids were given Polaroid cameras and encouraged to explore their feelings through art \u2014 and arranged for the photos to be displayed at the Supreme Court rotunda in 2003. Some of the youths were flown to the Capital to view their work.<\/p>\n<p>Steven Leifman, who served as a\u00a0Miami-Dade County\u00a0judge for 30 years, said Lewis altered the trajectory of his life when, in 2007, he asked Leifman to oversee a Supreme Court commission on the treatment of Floridians with mental illness in the court system. \u201cHe changed my whole career,\u201d Leifman said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe was one of the first jurists who recognized that the criminal system had become the mental health and substance abuse system in America,\u201d Leifman said. After studying the issue for three years, the commission released a damning report that led to changes in the way people with psychiatric disorders are treated in the court system. \u201cMany of those things became a model for the country.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In 2004, justices struck down \u201cTerri\u2019s Law,\u201d a measure passed by the Legislature enabling then-Gov.\u00a0Jeb Bush\u00a0to order the reinsertion of a feeding tube that had sustained\u00a0Terri Schiavo, a\u00a0Pinellas County\u00a0woman whom a trial court had determined was in a vegetative state. A succession of hearings pitted Schiavo\u2019s husband against her parents, who were desperate to keep her alive in hope she would recover.<\/p>\n<p>The case\u00a0gained national attention, fractured\u00a0Florida, and greatly troubled Lewis, \u201cbecause of his love for his own daughter,\u201d whose disabilities had been so devastating, said retired Justice\u00a0Barbara Pariente. \u201cBut in the end he joined with the unanimous court.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lewis considered his greatest legacy to be the Justice Teaching initiative, a program that trained educators across the state to teach legal principles as part of a broader civics curriculum. \u201cHe was very critical that the state did not do a good enough job of teaching kids about civics,\u201d said\u00a0Michael Genden, who served as a\u00a0Miami-Dade Circuit\u00a0judge for 24 years. Genden, who became close with Lewis in law school, flew to\u00a0Tallahassee\u00a0for six years to work with the program.<\/p>\n<p>Lewis oversaw workshops with school kids himself, traveling to schools in his free time, staging mock trials and handing out copies of legal documents, like the\u00a0Constitution.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe was a human being first, and a lawyer second,\u201d said Genden, who remained friends with the justice since law school.<\/p>\n<p>Lewis\u2019 dedication to Floridians living on the margins endeared him to many, but it was also a source of enormous friction with conservatives in the state, who put a target on him and his philosophical kindreds on the courts as they ascended to power.<\/p>\n<p>In 2012, a political action committee funded by billionaire brothers from\u00a0Kansas,\u00a0Charles\u00a0and\u00a0David Koch,\u00a0backed a secretive campaign\u00a0to remove Lewis and two other justices from the court via a merit retention vote. The three were retained for another six years, but the justices called the period a stressful attack on the independence of the judiciary.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe went around the state talking about the importance of a fair and impartial judiciary, not beholden to special interests,\u201d Pariente recalls. \u201cWe shared a belief in the importance of protecting individual rights.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Though the Supreme Court had been trending toward a conservative majority for several years, the mandatory retirement of liberal justices Lewis, Pariente and\u00a0Peggy Quince\u00a0in\u00a0January 2019\u00a0enabled Gov.\u00a0Ron DeSantis\u00a0to put a libertarian-leaning stamp on the court that is expected to endure for a generation or longer.<\/p>\n<p>Only Justice\u00a0Jorge Labarga, a South Floridian like Lewis and Pariente, remains of a liberal core that helped shape law and policy in the state for decades. Their departure and replacement engendered a philosophical shift that reversed long-settled law, making it easier, for example, for trial judges to discard a jury\u2019s verdict and issue a \u201csummary judgement\u201d from the bench. Business groups applauded that opinion. Lawyers for plaintiffs called it an affront.<\/p>\n<p>The new court also shifted away from more stringent protections for condemned inmates, discarding a legal requirement that death sentences be imposed only upon a unanimous jury vote, and that they be reviewed to ensure they are not disproportionate.<\/p>\n<p>The ideological rupture from previous courts has been most apparent in the development of a new framework of laws governing the state\u2019s near-abolition of abortion.<\/p>\n<p>But it wasn\u2019t politics that energized Lewis, his friends and colleagues say. It was his concern for the plight of others. \u201cRegardless of his elevated position, he never lost the common touch \u2013 or his understanding of the needs of those who weren\u2019t as fortunate as he was,\u201d said Stengle.<\/p>\n<p>Lewis is survived by his wife of 57 years,\u00a0Judy Lewis; his daughter,\u00a0Elle Anderson; his son-in-law,\u00a0Clarke Anderson; and grandchildren Ellison and\u00a0Evans Anderson. Lindsay predeceased her father in\u00a0March 2012.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a92026 Miami Herald. Visit\u00a0miamiherald.com. Distributed by\u00a0Tribune Content Agency, LLC.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/orlandorelocationreport.com\/?p=2273\">Editorial: DeSantis seeks to ram through a flawed property-tax plan<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>R. 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