Marcia Gail Cooke was an American lawyer.
She was born October 16, 1954 in Sumter, South Carolina, United States.
Marcia Cooke earned a Bachelor of Science in Foreign Service from the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University in 1975 and received a Juris Doctor from Wayne State University Law School in 1977.
After graduating, Cooke worked as a staff attorney for Neighborhood Legal Services in Michigan from 1978 to 1979. She subsequently served as deputy public defender of the Legal Aid and Defender Association in Michigan from 1979 to 1980.
From 1980 to 1983, Cooke worked as an assistant U.S. Attorney in Detroit and subsequently work briefly in private practice from 1983 to 1984. Between 1984 and 1992, she worked as a federal magistrate judge in Detroit.
In 1992, she worked at the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Miami as director of professional development and training and later became executive assistant U.S. Attorney.
Cooke also served as chief inspector general for the Executive Office of the Governor of Florida under Jeb Bush from 1999 to 2002.
From 2002 to 2004, Cooke was assistant county attorney in Miami-Dade County.
Cooke was appointed to the bench in Miami in 2004 by President George W. Bush and was confirmed by the Senate on May 18, 2004. She was the first Black female federal judge in Florida.
She served as a senior Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida from July 15, 2022, till her demise.
Marcia Cooke passed away on January 27, 2023, at age 68 in Detroit, Michigan, United State after battling inoperable cancer.
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