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Emiliano Jose Salcines receives honorary
degree from Florida Southern College

LAKELAND, Fla. (April 15, 2002) - Judge Emiliano Jose (E.J.) Salcines of the Tampa District Court of Appeal, will receive an honorary degree of Doctor of Laws during Florida Southern College's graduation ceremony April 27. The commencement, at which 245 Lakeland day students will receive their degrees, takes place at 1:30 p.m. in the Jenkins Field House. Salcines will deliver the commencement address.

A 1959 graduate of Florida Southern, Salcines is being recognized for his distinguished career in the legal profession. He has served the law for nearly 40 years in private practice and as a prosecutor, lecturer, author, and appellate court judge.

Salcines was elected four times over 22 years as Assistant State Attorney for the 13th Judicial Circuit. He served as Assistant U.S. Attorney of the U.S. Department of Justice in the Middle District of Florida and as a special federal prosecutor for organized crime in the southern and midwestern states.

Salcines created the first program on pre-trial intervention that has become the standard throughout Florida. He was appointed judge of the appellate court in 1998 and has received many high honors from his profession and community, including the 1974 Special Merit Award as one of the outstanding prosecuting attorneys in the nation. He was knighted in 1979 by King Juan Carlos of Spain into the Royal Order of Queen Isabella, and received the President's Distinguished Citizen award and the Distinguished Service Award from the University of South Florida.

About Florida Southern College
Florida Southern is a four-year, private, co-educational liberal arts college affiliated with the United Methodist Church. The college offers more than 40 undergraduate majors and a master of business administration degree accredited by the Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools. Located in Lakeland, Fla., the college is home to the largest, single-site collection of Frank Lloyd Wright architecture in the world.

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