The latest chapter of the Daily Business Review’s coverage of South Florida candidates in the August primary elections features a Q&A with white-collar criminal defense attorney Yery Marrero and commerical litigation attorney Joe Perkins, candidates for Miami-Dade Circuit judge, Group 25. Here’s what they had to say about what qualifies them for the bench. Responses have been edited for style and content.

Yery Marrero

Yery Marrero was born in 1961 in Bayamo, Cuba, and obtained her law degree from Loyola School of Law in New Orleans. Marrero has been practicing for 28 years in courts throughout the country, and began her career as an assistant public defender, focusing on minor offenses in county court then progressing to handling major crimes in circuit court. After almost 10 years, she opened a private practice dedicated to representing clients under investigation or charged with state and federal criminal offenses.