Ursula Mancusi Ungaro

Ursula Mancusi Ungaro

Judge on the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida
Incumbent
Assumed office October 9, 1992
Appointed by	George H. W. Bush
Preceded by	New seat
Personal details
Born	(1951-01-29) January 29, 1951 Miami Beach, Florida, U.S.
Alma mater	University of Miami University of Florida College of Law

Ursula Mancusi Ungaro (born January 29, 1951; formerly known as Ursula Ungaro-Benages) is an American lawyer and judge.

Ungaro was born in 1951 in Miami Beach, Florida. She graduated from the University of Miami with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1973 and from the University of Florida College of Law with a Juris Doctor in 1975.

Ungaro was in private practice in Miami from 1976 to 1987. Ungaro practiced at Frates Floyd Pearson Stewart Richman & Greer from 1976 to 1978, Blackwell Walker Gray Powers Flick & Hoelhl from 1978 to 1980, Finley Kumble Heine Underberg Manley & Casey from 1980 to 1985, and was a shareholder at Sparber Shap & Heilbronner, P.A. from 1985 to 1987.^[1] Ungaro was a judge of the Eleventh Judicial Circuit of Florida from 1987 to 1992.

President George H.W. Bush nominated Ungaro-Benages to the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida on November 26, 1991, to the new seat created by 104 Stat. 5089. Confirmed by the Senate on October 8, 1992, she received commission on October 9, 1992.

On April 26, 2012, Judge Ungaro ruled that an order issued by Florida Governor Rick Scott to randomly drug test 80,000 Florida state workers was unconstitutional. Ungaro found that Scott had not demonstrated that there was a compelling reason for the tests and that, as a result, they were an unreasonable search in violation of the Constitution.^[2]

Sources

Ursula Mancusi Ungaro at the Biographical Directory of Federal Judges, a public domain publication of the Federal Judicial Center.

↑ Biographies of Federal Court Judges Sitting in Florida
↑ Alvarez, Lizette (26 April 2012). "State Worker Drug Tests Struck Down in Florida". The New York Times. Retrieved 27 April 2012.

Legal offices
Preceded by new seat	Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida 1992–present	Incumbent

Current active district judges of the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals

M. Alabama	Watkins 2 seats vacant

N. Alabama	Bowdre Coogler Proctor Hopkins Kallon Haikala 2 seats vacant

S. Alabama	Steele DuBose 1 seat vacant

M. Florida	Merryday Kovachevich Whittemore Corrigan Covington Howard Scriven Honeywell Dalton Chappell Davis Byron Mendoza 2 seats vacant

N. Florida	Rodgers Walker 2 seats vacant

S. Florida	Moore Zloch Moreno Ungaro Lenard Middlebrooks Dimitrouleas Marra Martinez Altonaga Cooke Williams Scola Gayles Bloom Rosenberg 2 seats vacant

M. Georgia	Land Treadwell Abrams 1 seat vacant

N. Georgia	Thrash Murphy Story Duffey Batten Totenberg Jones May Cohen Ross 1 seat vacant

S. Georgia	Wood Moore Hall

Authority control	WorldCat Identities VIAF: 147009527 LCCN: no2010172606 ISNI: 0000 0000 9910 9516

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