A Miami attorney has become president-elect designate of the Florida Bar after being elected without opposition.

Francisco "Frank" R. Angones is to be sworn in as president-elect at the Bar's 2006 annual meeting in June. At that time, current president-elect Henry M. "Hank" Coxe III is to be sworn in as president.

Angones is to be sworn in as president in June 2007. That ceremony may make him the first Cuban-born president of the Florida Bar...

Angones has been a member of the Florida Bar board of governors since 2000 and currently serves on the executive committee. He is a past president of both the Dade County Bar Association and the Cuban American Bar Association; a former member of the house of delegates of the American Bar Association and he has served on the federal judicial nominating commission for the Southern District, among other bar-related activities.

Angones said he wants to continue the Florida Bar's diversity efforts, to work closely with bar sections and voluntary bars and to increase the bar's interaction with the legislature and executive branch.

After arriving in the United States from Cuba in 1961 without his parents via the humanitarian Operation Pedro Pan, Angones lived in Miami and graduated from LaSalle High School. He received a bachelor's degree magna cum laude from the University of Miami in 1972 and his Juris Doctor from University of Miami School of Law in 1976.

Angones and his wife, Georgina, assistant dean of the University of Miami School of Law, live in Coral Gables. They have one son, Frank R.

Angones Jr., who is scheduled to graduate from Columbia University in May.

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