Judge Alex
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Judge Alex is a United States syndicated courtroom television show that debuted September 12, 2005. The host is the Honorable Alex E. Ferrer.
Ferrer was born in Havana, Cuba in 1961 but almost immediately fled Fidel Castro's Communist regime with his family at the age of 1. At 19, Ferrer became one of the youngest police officers in the state of Florida. At age 24, he graduated from the University of Miami and left the force to practice law, becoming a trial lawyer with a focus on civil litigation.
In 1995, he then became an Associate Administrative Judge in the Criminal Division of Florida's Eleventh Judicial Circuit, which services Miami-Dade County, where he spent ten years presiding over thousands of criminal cases. He also presided as an appellate judge over appeals from the Miami-Dade County Court, County Commission and numerous other governmental bodies. In 1999, he was elected by other judges to serve as their District Representative to the Executive Committee of the Conference of Circuit Court Judges, a role he held until 2001.
He is a member of both the Florida and the District of Columbia's bars. He has been an adjunct professor at Florida International University, and teaches media relations to other judges at The New Judges College and The College of Advanced Judicial Studies, as well as at various national conferences.
Ferrer resides in Miami, Florida with his wife and two children.
