This installment of the Daily Business Review’s coverage of the August primary election features Q&As with family lawyer Olanike Adebayo and civil lawyer Eleane Sosa-Bruzon, running for Miami-Dade County Court judge, Group 33. Responses have been edited for style and content.


Olanike “Nike” Adebayo

Adebayo is from Chicago but relocated to Miami to obtain her juris doctor from the University of Miami School of Law. She began her legal career at the Miami State Attorney’s Office, where she spent eight years prosecuting and trying felony, misdemeanor, juvenile and domestic violence cases. Her most recent position was chief of litigation in the juvenile division. Adebayo was a police legal adviser at the Miami-Dade Police Department for five years, where she prosecuted civil forfeiture actions and also taught at the department’s accredited Metropolitan Police Institute.