Ben Overton was born December 15, 1926, in Green Bay, Wisconsin.

He received his master of laws degree from the University of Virginia.

[2] He was a city attorney for St. Petersburg, Florida from 1954 to 1957, and he became a circuit judge in 1964.

[1] Overton served as a Florida Supreme Court Justice from 1974 to 1999.

[1] Overton, 86, died December 29, 2012, in Gainesville, Florida of complications from heart surgery.