Five Questions with former Florida Supreme Court justice Ricky Polston
Ricky Polston, a former Florida Supreme Court justice, had a good reason to leave the bench years before he reached the state’s mandatory retirement age of 75: A state pension “is good but it's not that good,” he told City & State with a laugh.
He stepped down from the bench in March to become general counsel and chief legal officer at Citizens Property Insurance Corp., the state-backed insurer of last resort. But within a few months, the Shutts & Bowen law firm announced that he would join the Tallahassee office as a partner. The 67-year-old father of 10 will head the firm’s Constitutional Law Practice Section.
Ben Gibson, the firm’s Tallahassee office managing partner, said it has “over 30...
