Terry P. Lewis is a retired state circuit judge who presided over cases in the Second Judicial Circuit Court of

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. He was appointed to that court in 1998 by Governor

Lawton Chiles Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr. (April 3, 1930 – December 12, 1998) was an American politician and military officer. A member of the Democratic Party (United States), Democratic Party, he served as a United States Senate, United States senator fr ...

, after serving as a Leon County Court judge from 1989. Lewis is best known for overseeing the Florida recount during the 2000 US presidential election. He is also a writer of legal thriller novels.

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