JAMAICAN-BORN Peter A. McGlashan is among two attorneys named to fill vacancies in the Circuit Court and the county court for Volusia, Florida, the Governor's Office announced last week.
Governor Jeb Bush has appointed Randell H. Rowe III, an assistant county attorney, to become the new circuit judge and Assistant State Attorney Peter A. McGlashan to become the new county judge.
Rowe will take a Circuit Court vacancy covering civil cases, while McGlashan will take a criminal docket, according to court records. Both vacancies are based at the Daytona Beach Courthouse Annex.
McGlashan, 41, of South Daytona, has worked as a prosecutor in the 7th Judicial Circuit since 1993 and is currently division chief of the trial docket before Chief Circuit Judge William A. Parsons. He received his undergraduate degree from the University of the West Indies in 1986 and his law degree from the University of Florida College in 1993.
"Trial wise, he's very savvy, and he has a down-to-earth approach to his cases that really qualifies him to be a judge," State Attorney John Tanner aid of McGlashan Thursday. "He is compassionate, but he's also firm and he can tell the difference between someone who needs to be put away and someone who made a mistake and can be rehabilitated."
PRIOR EXPERIENCES
Rowe, 44, of DeLand, has worked for Volusia County government since 1994 and previously worked as a judicial staff attorney in the 7th Judicial Circuit. He received his undergraduate degree from Stetson University in 1983 and his law degree from the Cumberland School of Law of Samford University, in Birmingham, Ala., in 1987.
This is the fourth judicial appointment in Volusia County this year.
Former DeLand-based prosecutor Raul Zambrano has become a new circuit judge and Belle Schumann, who worked in the Daytona Beach office of the attorney general, is a county judge.
- Reprinted from the Sun Sentinel
