The Daily Business Review’s coverage of South Florida candidates in the August primary election features Q&As with candidates in judicial races across South Florida. This installment focuses on the race for Miami-Dade County Court judge, Group 2. Here’s what real estate attorney Rosy Annette Aponte and prosecutor Kristy Nunez have to say about their qualifications for the bench. Responses have been edited for style and content.

Rosy Annette Aponte

Rosy Annette Aponte was born in Adjuntas, Puerto Rico, and grew up in Miami since the age of 3. She graduated from Miami-Dade College, Barry University and Whittier Law School. Before becoming an attorney, she was also an elementary school teacher for the public school system for many years. Aponte attended Whittier Law School in the evening, for four of those seven years. When the foreclosure boom hit in 2008, she was of counsel for various law firms and was a permanent staple litigating in civil court on a daily basis and helping many people modify their mortgage and save their homes. Aponte has done hundreds of trials, motion calendars and evidentiary hearings. She has been a civil rights attorney, helping people fight discrimination in the workplace from the beginning of her legal career until now. She has also dedicated her legal career to real estate litigation, personal injury, insurance litigation, bankruptcy law, commercial litigation and family law.