Stephan P. Mickle

Who is Stephan P. Mickle?

Stephan P. Mickle is an American lawyer and judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Florida.

Mickle was born in New York City. In 1965, he received his Bachelor of Arts degree in political science. He was the first black student to graduate from the University of Florida. In 1966, he received his M.Ed. from the University of Florida. Additionally, he received his J.D. from the University of Florida College of Law in 1970. He was the second black student to graduate from the University of Florida Fredric G. Levin College of Law.

Mickle worked briefly as an attorney in the Office of Legal Services at the U.S. Office of Equal Opportunity in Washington, D.C. in 1970 and in private practice in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. He returned in Gainesville in 1971, when he became an adjunct professor at the University of Florida College of Law, a post he still holds today, and entered private practice as the first black lawyer in Alachua County. Mickle was also a special assistant public defender for the Eighth Judicial Circuit in 1974.

Mickle was a judge on the Alachua County Court from 1979 to 1984 and was a circuit judge of the Eighth Judicial Circuit from 1984 to 1992. He served as a judge of the Florida First District Court of Appeal from 1993 to 1998.