Gold served as a research assistant to Judge Charles Carroll of the Florida Third District Court of Appeal from 1969 to 1970.
President Bill Clinton nominated Gold to the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida on February 12, 1997, to the seat vacated by Judge Jose Alejandro Gonzalez Jr. During Gold's confirmation hearings before the Senate, he surprised many when, after being asked which Supreme Court decision troubled him most, he named Griswold v.
[2] During his service on the district court Gold has heard cases including the trial of Alberto Gutman, the corruption and conspiracy trial of 11 former Miami Police Department officers[3] and a racketeering and fraud lawsuit against DuPont.
[5] Gold also presided over a case involving ten Coral Gables/University of Miami Police officers who were suing the University of Miami for employment related matters along with claims of misreporting crime statistics and police corruption .
[6][better source needed] The chief judge ruled that Gold did nothing wrong by not disclosing those details.