K. Michael Moore

[1] Moore served as an assistant United States attorney for the Southern District of Florida from 1976 to 1981, as supervisory assistant United States attorney for the Northern District of Florida from 1981 to 1982, and as assistant United States attorney for the Northern District of Florida from 1983 to 1987.

Moore served as the United States attorney for the Northern District of Florida from 1987 to 1989.

[1] On August 12, 2020, President Donald Trump announced his intent to nominate Moore to serve as chair of the United States Sentencing Commission.

[2] On March 21, 2000, Moore issued a fifty-page ruling declaring that only United States Attorney General Janet Reno could grant political asylum to keep 6-year-old Cuban rafter survivor Elian Gonzalez in the United States.

[3] During his tenure on the bench, Judge Moore has overseen other high-profile cases, including the prosecution of the notorious Miami drug gang the "Boobie Boys,"[4] the sentencing of Sandra Avila Beltran, the "Queen of the Pacific," to seventy months imprisonment for her role in a conspiracy to import cocaine to the United States,[5] and the first trial conviction of a synthetic marijuana distributor in South Florida.