The Broward County Hispanic Bar Association (BCHBA) is celebrating its 30-year anniversary during its annual gala June 1. In light of this achievement, the BCHBA will be honoring its beginnings by interviewing several of the BCHBA’s past presidents, and asking how and why the organization was started.

One of the BCHBA’s founding members and its first president, Judge Marina Garcia-Wood of the Seventeenth Judicial Circuit, recalled in her interview what inspired her to start the organization, stating “In the fall of 1988, I came to Broward County for a new legal opportunity and I found myself feeling isolated. I would go to court, and I wouldn’t see people on the bench  … [or] … attorneys that looked like me or sounded like me.” That was when Garcia-Wood decided to do something about it.

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