Patricia C. Fawsett

Patricia C. Fawsett (born 1943) is a Senior United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida.

Education and career

Fawsett was born in 1943 in Montreal, Canada. She received her Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Florida in 1965, her Master of Arts in Teaching from the University of Florida in 1966, and her Juris Doctor from the University of Florida College of Law in 1973. Fawsett was in private practice in Orlando, Florida from 1973 to 1986.^[1]

Federal judicial service

President Ronald Reagan nominated Fawsett to the United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida on April 9, 1986, to the seat vacated by Judge John A. Reed Jr.. Confirmed by the Senate on June 6, 1986, she received her commission three days later. She served as Chief Judge of the court from 2003 to 2008. She took senior status on August 25, 2008.^[1]

Famous sentence imposed by Patricia C. Fawsett

Judge Patricia C. Fawsett sentenced Keith Pound 740 years after being convicted on 76 counts and Sholam Weiss 845 years after being convicted on 93 counts, for financial crimes of money-laundering and fraud scheme against National Heritage Life Insurance. ^{[2] [3] [4]} She also sentenced Erin Sharma, a federal corrections officer who deliberately arranged to move an alleged inmate informant into the cell of a notoriously violent inmate, resulting in his fatal beating, was sentenced to life in prison Ex-corrections officer gets life in prison

Reference

Sources

• Patricia C. Fawsett at the Biographical Directory of Federal Judges, a public domain publication of the Federal Judicial Center.