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Rosalyn Destinie Baker Sutton

Rosalyn Destinie Baker Sutton

The Supreme Court has appointed four new members to the Florida Board of Bar Examiners.

Rosalyn Destinie Baker Sutton, Gary M. Miller, and John J. O’Sullivan, and new public member Kamran A. Malik join the organization responsible for handling matters of Bar admission.

Sutton of West Palm Beach has been appointed to succeed retiring member Rachelle Munson of Tallahassee.

Sutton received her bachelors from Florida State University and her J.D. from the University of Florida Levin College of Law. She was a prosecutor at the Palm Beach County State Attorney’s Office for over a decade, obtaining experience litigating complex matters including racketeering, pill mills, gangs, and first-degree murder, in the Organized Crime Unit. Sutton is the founding shareholder of Destinie Law Firm, where she focuses primarily on catastrophic personal injury cases. She was admitted to the Bar in 2005 and is a member of the U.S. Supreme Court of the United States and the U.S. District Court, Southern District.

Sutton is also the co-founder and president for the Palm Beach County Sheree Davis Cunningham Black Women Lawyers Association and has served in leadership roles in the Florida Association for Women Lawyers, Palm Beach Chapter, the Palm Beach County Bar Association, and F. Malcolm Cunningham, Sr., Bar Association, the University of Florida College of Law Alumni Council, Alpha Kappa Sorority and The Links, Incorporated.

Her term of office will extend through October 31, 2028.

Gary Miller

Gary Miller

Miami’s Miller succeeds retiring member John R. Dierking of Orlando.

Miller received his law degree from the Pepperdine University School of Law, and his bachelors from Gettysburg College. He was admitted to The Florida Bar in 1993. Miller recently retired as an enforcement attorney after 22 years with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

His term of office will extend through October 31, 2028.

John O'Sullivan

John O’Sullivan

O’Sullivan of Miami succeeds Dennis J. Alfonso of Dade City.

Judge O’Sullivan (retired) received his bachelor’s from the State University of New York at Albany and his J.D. from the University of Miami School of Law, where he graduated magna cum laude. He is a CPA and a member of The Florida Bar. O’Sullivan served as the chief magistrate judge for the U.S. District Court, Southern District of Florida, where he sat on the bench for 22 years. Prior to his appointment to the bench, he was an assistant U.S. attorney in Miami for 13 years. He was admitted to The Florida Bar in 1985 and is a board member of the Federal Bar Association.

His term of office will extend through October 31, 2028.

Kamran Malik

Kamran Malik

Malik of Safety Harbor succeeds retiring public member Sanjena V. Clay of West Palm Beach.

Malik received his bachelor’s in mathematics from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and is a dual career professional, an actuary for the past 27 years helping Fortune 500 insurance companies with health-care product design/business strategy consulting and for the past 12 years he also shares his passion of photography with Central Florida clients as a commercial photographer.

Malik is a Leadership Tampa Bay and Leadership Pinellas alum and served on the board of Leadership Pinellas in the recent past. Malik is a member of the Society of Actuaries where he served on several elected leadership roles and he is also a member of American Academy of Actuaries.

His term of office will extend through October 31, 2026.

The Bar Examiner’s website, located at www.floridabarexam.org, has the board’s computerized bar application forms and features the full text of the Rules of the Supreme Court Relating to Admissions to the Bar, Frequently Asked Questions, and links to other agencies, including The Florida Bar and the Florida Supreme Court.

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