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America's 250th Anniversary: What Does It Mean to Be an American?

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Ed Artau

Ed Artau

District Judge, United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida

Biography

Judge Ed Artau is a United States District Judge for the Southern District of
Florida. He was nominated by President Donald Trump for appointment to
the United States District Court in May of 2025, and confirmed by the United
States Senate in September of 2025. Prior to his confirmation, Judge Artau
was appointed by Governor Ron DeSantis to the Fourth District Court of
Appeal of Florida, where he served as an appellate judge from 2020 until
2025. Prior to being an appellate judge, Judge Artau was appointed by
Governor Rick Scott to the Fifteenth Judicial Circuit in Palm Beach County,
Florida, where he served as a trial judge from 2014 until 2020.

Judge Artau is also an Adjunct Professor at St. Thomas University College of
Law and has served as the Dean of the Advanced Judicial Studies College
and on the faculty of both the Florida Judicial College and the Advanced
Judicial Studies College.

Judge Artau has previously served as the Chair of the Fifteenth Circuit
Judicial Nominating Commission, Vice Chair of the Fourth District Court of
Appeal Judicial Nominating Commission, Parliamentarian of the Appellate
Court Rules Committee, Vice Chair of the Judicial Nominating Procedures
Committee, and as a representative on the Florida Court Education Council.

Before his appointment to the bench, Judge Artau served as General Counsel
to the South Florida Water Management District, where he commenced his
public service as a senior litigation attorney. Prior to this role, Judge Artau
managed his own law firm after having served in the litigation departments of
the law firms of Proskauer Rose, L.L.P. and Hodgson Russ, L.L.P.

Judge Artau is a graduate of the Georgetown University Law Center where he
served as a law review editor and Vice-President of the Georgetown Student
Chapter of the Federalist Society. Judge Artau completed his undergraduate
studies at Nova Southeastern University, where he graduated cum laude and
was later awarded a Doctor of Laws, honoris causa, for his commitment to
public service, academia, and the law.

Judge Artau is a founder of the first Lawyers Chapter of the Federalist
Society in Florida and is the 2025 recipient of the Good Shepherd Award,
presented by the Florida Chapters of the Federalist Society in recognition of his              “Commitment to the Rule of Law and the Ideals of the Federalist Society.”

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Gabriel Groisman

Gabriel Groisman

Founder, Groisman LLC

Biography

Gabriel Groisman is a nationally recognized attorney, policy strategist, public speaker, and advocate for the Jewish community. He is the Founder of Groisman, LLC, a boutique government affairs and consulting firm with offices in Miami and Washington, D.C., where he provides strategic advisory services, public affairs, and advocacy for select clients. He is also a practicing attorney and the principal of Groisman Law, where he handles select litigation and legal matters.

Gabe is a weekly columnist for JNS.org, where he writes on issues relating to antisemitism, U.S. and Israeli politics, and the future of the Jewish people. He is also the host of the political podcast Standpoint with Gabe Groisman, featuring high-level interviews with U.S. Senators, members of Congress, governors, mayors, and thought leaders from across the conservative and pro-Israel landscape.

Groisman is an internationally sought-after speaker and legal scholar on antisemitism and the BDS movement. He has addressed audiences at the United Nations, the Italian Parliament, and the Israeli Knesset, as well as conferences and institutions around the globe. He serves as a Senior Advisor to the Combat Antisemitism Movement and is a member of the Jewish National Fund’s Speakers Bureau.

Previously, Gabe served as Mayor of Bal Harbour, Florida, from 2016 to 2022, after first being elected to the Village Council. During his tenure, he authored and passed the nation’s first municipal ordinance banning BDS (December 2015) and became the first elected official in the U.S. to codify the IHRA definition of antisemitism (December 2017).

He currently serves as Chairman of the Board of the Children’s Tumor Foundation, and is a national board member of the Republican Jewish Coalition.

In recognition of his work, Gabe received the Pursuit of Justice Award from the American Association of Jewish Lawyers and Jurists in 2018 and the Voices of Iron Award from the Israeli Knesset in 2025 for his unwavering defense of Israel and the Jewish people.

Gabe earned his B.A. in Philosophy from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and his J.D. from American University’s Washington College of Law. He lives in Bal Harbour with his wife Lisa and their five daughters.

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Ryan Dean Newman

Ryan Dean Newman

Chief Deputy Attorney General

Biography

Ryan Newman is currently Chief Deputy Attorney General for Florida Office of the Attorney General.

During the first Trump Administration, he served as Counselor to the United States Attorney General for national security and international affairs, Deputy General Counsel (Legal Counsel) for the Department of Defense, and Acting Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Legal Policy at the Department of Justice. Prior to serving in the Executive Branch, Ryan was Chief Counsel to United States Senator Ted Cruz during the 114th Congress. 

Ryan served as a law clerk to the Honorable Samuel A. Alito, Jr. on the United States Supreme Court, the Honorable Richard J. Leon on the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, and the Honorable J.L. Edmondson on the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit.

Prior to law school, Ryan was an armor officer in the United States Army assigned to the 1st Squadron, 10th U.S. Cavalry Regiment (Buffalo Soldiers). He deployed to Iraq in 2003 for Operation Iraqi Freedom.

Ryan graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1998. He earned his law degree with high honors from The University of Texas School of Law in 2007.

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Theodore Wold

Theodore Wold

Director, Administrative State Project, The Claremont Institute Center for the American Way of Life

Biography

Theo Wold

Washington Fellow

Theodore Wold was the Acting-Assistant Attorney General in the Office of Legal Policy at the Department of Justice and Deputy Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy during the Trump Administration. He previously served as Deputy Chief Counsel to United States Senator Mike Lee on the Senate Judiciary Committee. He holds a B.A. from Georgetown University, where he studied government and English; an M. Litt. from the University of St. Andrews, where he studied English literature; and a J.D. from the University of Notre Dame. Mr. Wold clerked at the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit for Judge Janice Rogers Brown and the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico for Judge José Antonio Fusté. He has also lectured at the law school of the Universidad of Francisco Marroquín in Guatemala. Mr. Wold was a John Marshall Fellow at the Claremont Institute and a Madison Fellow at Hillsdale College’s Kirby Center.

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Roy Kalman Altman

Roy Kalman Altman

Judge, United States District Court, Southern District of Florida

Biography

On April 4, 2019, Judge Altman was confirmed to a seat on the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida. At 36, he became the youngest federal district court judge in the country—and the youngest federal judge ever appointed in the Southern District of Florida.

Judge Altman received a BA from Columbia University, where he played quarterback on the football team and pitched for the baseball team—earning All-Ivy honors. Judge Altman received his JD from the Yale Law School, where he was projects editor of the Yale Law Journal. After law school, the Judge clerked on the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals for the Honorable Stanley Marcus.

Judge Altman then became a federal prosecutor at the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Miami, where he twice received the Director of the Executive Office of U.S. Attorneys’ Award for Superior Performance by a federal prosecutor. In 2013, Judge Altman was named “Federal Prosecutor of the Year” by the Miami-Dade Chiefs of Police and the Law Enforcement Officers’ Charitable Foundation.

In 2014, Judge Altman became a partner at the Miami law firm of Podhurst Orseck, where he represented the victims of airplane crashes and bank fraud conspiracies.

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Gabriel Groisman

Gabriel Groisman

Founder, Groisman LLC

Biography

Gabriel Groisman is a nationally recognized attorney, policy strategist, public speaker, and advocate for the Jewish community. He is the Founder of Groisman, LLC, a boutique government affairs and consulting firm with offices in Miami and Washington, D.C., where he provides strategic advisory services, public affairs, and advocacy for select clients. He is also a practicing attorney and the principal of Groisman Law, where he handles select litigation and legal matters.

Gabe is a weekly columnist for JNS.org, where he writes on issues relating to antisemitism, U.S. and Israeli politics, and the future of the Jewish people. He is also the host of the political podcast Standpoint with Gabe Groisman, featuring high-level interviews with U.S. Senators, members of Congress, governors, mayors, and thought leaders from across the conservative and pro-Israel landscape.

Groisman is an internationally sought-after speaker and legal scholar on antisemitism and the BDS movement. He has addressed audiences at the United Nations, the Italian Parliament, and the Israeli Knesset, as well as conferences and institutions around the globe. He serves as a Senior Advisor to the Combat Antisemitism Movement and is a member of the Jewish National Fund’s Speakers Bureau.

Previously, Gabe served as Mayor of Bal Harbour, Florida, from 2016 to 2022, after first being elected to the Village Council. During his tenure, he authored and passed the nation’s first municipal ordinance banning BDS (December 2015) and became the first elected official in the U.S. to codify the IHRA definition of antisemitism (December 2017).

He currently serves as Chairman of the Board of the Children’s Tumor Foundation, and is a national board member of the Republican Jewish Coalition.

In recognition of his work, Gabe received the Pursuit of Justice Award from the American Association of Jewish Lawyers and Jurists in 2018 and the Voices of Iron Award from the Israeli Knesset in 2025 for his unwavering defense of Israel and the Jewish people.

Gabe earned his B.A. in Philosophy from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and his J.D. from American University’s Washington College of Law. He lives in Bal Harbour with his wife Lisa and their five daughters.

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