Who is Andrew Bain? He’s been a judge, UM football player and wannabe marine biologist
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For the second time in under four years, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has changed Lauderdale Lakes-raised Andrew Bain’s job title.
DeSantis appointed Bain to a Ninth Circuit judgeship in 2020. Judge Bain presided in Orange County until Wednesday when the governor replaced Ninth Circuit state attorney Monique Worrell, accusing her of breach of duty.
He made Bain the new state attorney for the circuit covering Orlando, Kissimmee and the rest of Orange and Osceola counties.
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Here are a few things to know about Bain:
▪ Bain grew up in the East Gate area of Lauderdale Lakes and went to Nova High School his freshman year before transferring to Pompano Beach Ely High School.
▪ Bain told Ninth Circuit Chief Judge Don Myers that he grew up only three miles from another Lauderale Lakes-raised Ninth Circuit judge, Judge Gabrielle Sanders-Morency. Though both also went to law school at Florida A&M, their time in law school was separated by four years. They met while working together in the Ninth Circuit state attorney’s office.
▪ University of Miami football fans will recognize Bain as a 6-foot-3, 315-pound offensive lineman who started at offensive left guard in 2006 and 2007 for the Hurricanes. Bain came to UM after an All-America high school career that included starting for Pompano Beach Ely High Schoo’s 2002 Class 5A state champions.
▪ In December 2006, Bain was named to the Atlantic Coast Conference All-Academic Team as he finished his bachelor’s degree in psychology. He’d add a business law degree at UM before moving on to Florida A&M Law School, where he got his law degree in 2013. Out of Florida A&M law school in 2013, Bain spent almost seven years as an assistant state attorney in Florida’s Ninth Circuit, which covers Orange and Osceola Counties. He was appointed to the bench in the Ninth Circuit in 2020.
▪ Bain told UM’s sports communications department in 2020 that while growing up in Broward County, he originally wanted to be a marine biologist. “I quickly found out when I was in fifth grade and I was 5-foot-10 and as big as my dad that that probably wasn’t going to be a viable option,” he told Christy Chirinos of UM’s athletic department. “Those little spaces weren’t going to be a real thing for me.”
Correction: An earlier version of this story misstated the location of Florida A&M School of Law, which is in Orlando.
This story was originally published August 9, 2023 at 9:56 AM.
