Judge Barbara Pariente has been a Judge since 1997 and served as Chief Justice for the Florida Supreme Court from 2004 through 2006. Judge Pariente graduated from George Washington University Law School in 1973. She moved to Fort Lauderdale, Florida in 1973 for a two-year judicial clerkship with United States District Court Judge Norman C. Roettger, Jr., of the Southern District of Florida.
In September 1993, Justice Pariente was appointed to the Fourth District Court of Appeal, where she served until her appointment as the seventy-seventh Justice of the Florida Supreme Court on December 10, 1997.
From 2010 to 2016, Judge Pariente chaired the Supreme Court’s Steering Committee on Families and Children in the Courts, which works collaboratively to improve methods for handling cases involving children and families so that the interests and need of the child are paramount. Since 2010, Judge Pariente has served as the Chief-Justice’s designee to the Florida Children and Youth Cabinet.
Judge Pariente is married to Judge Frederick A. Hazouri, who retired in January 2013 as a judge of the Fourth District Court of Appeal and now serves as a mediator. Together, they have three married children and ten grandchildren, all of whom live in Florida.
