The Hon.

Robin

L.

Rosenberg

Robin L. Rosenberg was nominated by President Barack Obama, confirmed by the United States Senate, and sworn in as a United States district judge for the Southern District of Florida on July 25, 2014. Judge Rosenberg serves as chair of the Judicial Conference Advisory Committee on Civil Rules. Judge Rosenberg also serves as a member of the Board of Editors for the new 
edition of the Manual for Complex Litigation (a publication of the FJC). She is a board member 
of the American Law Institute and is the co-creator of the national US Courts Civil Discourse 
and Decisions program, a program presented to high school, college and law students throughout the country.

Judge Rosenberg also serves as chair of the Eleventh Circuit Civics Education Committee and is 
a member of the Eleventh Circuit Local Rules Committee. She serves as chair of the Southern 
District of Florida Technology Committee and is a member of the Southern District of Florida
Local Rules Committee, Pro Se Committee, and Fairness and Diversity Committee.

Judge Rosenberg is the recipient of the Federal Bar Association’s 2019 Kenneth L. Ryskamp 
award in recognition of her distinguished contribution to enhancing the quality of the practice of 
law in the Southern District of Florida. She also received the Miami Jewish Legal Society’s 2024 Devorah Judge Award as well as the 2024 Distinguished Federal Judicial Service Award for outstanding and sustained service to the public. The Florida Supreme Court awards the 
distinction to a federal judge who exemplifies the ideals embodied in the Code of Conduct for 
United States Judges, furthering the goals of equal justice under the law and encouraging pro 
bono service by Florida lawyers.

Judge Rosenberg served on the Duke School of Law’s Board of Visitors for several years and 
currently is the chair of the Editorial Board of Judicature, a scholarly journal focused on the 
judiciary, the administration of justice, and the rule of law published by the Bolch Judicial 
Institute at Duke. She published an article in Judicature in August 2019 entitled “The 
Conversations of a Lifetime: The Power of the Sentencing Colloquy and How to Make it Matter”
and an article in 2022 entitled “Critical Life Skills Through Courtroom Experiences.”

Before she was elevated to the federal bench, she served as a Circuit Court judge for the 
Fifteenth Judicial Circuit (Palm Beach County) from January 2, 2007, until July 2014. Judge 
Rosenberg was assigned to the Circuit Civil Division from 2007-2013, the Foreclosure Division 
in 2013, and the Criminal Division from 2013-14.

Before she was elected a circuit judge, Judge Rosenberg was in private practice representing and 
counseling clients in general employment law and litigation matters.

From 1999 to 2002, Judge Rosenberg served as vice president and general counsel of Slim•Fast 
Foods Company and was a member of the executive committee that led all company operations. 

As general counsel, Judge Rosenberg supervised the legal matters for the company, including 
corporate, litigation, products liability, regulatory, and labor/employment issues. In 2001, Judge
Rosenberg led the legal team for Slim•Fast through a $2.1 billion merger with Unilever.

Prior to her tenure with Slim•Fast Foods Company, Judge Rosenberg was a litigation partner 
with the law firm of Holland & Knight LLP in West Palm Beach. She concentrated her practice 
in the representation of employers in employment and labor disputes including Title VII, ADA, 
ADEA, FCRA, FMLA and FLSA matters.

Judge Rosenberg worked as an attorney in private practice and at the City Attorney's Office in 
West Palm Beach from 1995 to 1997.

For the 1993-94 academic year, Judge Rosenberg was a CEP Fellow and visiting professor at a
university in the Czech Republic. She assisted in the establishment of a graduate public 
administration program for Czech students.

In 1990, Judge Rosenberg joined the U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division,
Employment Litigation Section, in Washington. D.C., through its Honors Program. As a trial 
attorney from 1990 to 1994, she represented the United States as the plaintiff in employment 
discrimination cases throughout the country.

Judge Rosenberg served as a judicial law clerk to the Honorable James C. Paine, United States 
District Court, Southern District of Florida from 1989-1990.

Judge Rosenberg is a member of Florida and Washington, D.C., bars, as well as the bars of the 
United States Supreme Court, Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals, and Southern District of 
Florida.

While in private practice, Judge Rosenberg, obtained an A-V Rating from Martindale-Hubbell. 
She also was a Circuit Civil and County Court Certified Mediator and owned a mediation 
company, ARC Mediation. She was a member of the American Arbitration Association (AAA) 
National Roster of Arbitrators and Mediators.

Judge Rosenberg is a graduate of Princeton University (BA, politics major) and Duke
University's Law School (JD), and Duke University's Sanford School of Public Policy (MA).

Judge Rosenberg is married to attorney and author Michael McAuliffe, and they have three adult 
children.