The Honorable Adalberto Jordan
Adjunct Professor of Law
Email: ajordan@stu.edu
Mail:
St. Thomas University College of Law
Faculty Suite (209)
16401 NW 37th Ave
Miami Gardens, FL 33054
Education:
B.A. University of Miami
J.D. University of Miami School of Law
Expertise:
Criminal Law
Criminal Procedure
Federal Courts
The Honorable Adalberto Jordan
Adalberto Jordan was born in Havana, Cuba, in 1961, and emigrated to the United States with his family in 1968. He and his wife, Esther, have two daughters, Diana and Elizabeth.
He obtained his bachelor’s degree in 1984 and his juris doctor degree in 1987 from the University of Miami. After law school he clerked for Judge Thomas Clark of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, and for Justice Sandra Day O’Connor of the United States Supreme Court. He then returned to Miami and entered private practice at Steel Hector & Davis from 1989 to 1994 before working as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Southern District of Florida from 1994 to 1999. During his last year and a half at the U.S. Attorney’s Office, he was head of the appellate division.
In 1999 President Clinton appointed him as a district judge for the Southern District of Florida. He served in that capacity until 2012, when President Obama appointed him as a circuit judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit.
Judge Jordan is an adjunct professor at the University of Miami School of Law and at the Florida International University College of Law, and has been a lecturer at Harvard Law School. He served on the ABA Standing Committee on Federal Judicial Improvements from 2010 to 2012 and on the Judicial Conference’s Advisory Committee on Bankruptcy Rules from 2010 to 2016. He is a member of the American Law Institute and the Judicial Advisory Board of the American Society of International Law. Judge Jordan teaches Federal Courts.
