What happened to judge karen's husband

Last Updated on March 16, by Sabina. Karen Mills-Francis is an American television personality and former county court judge and criminal defense attorney in Florida before turning to TV to preside over her own court shows. She completed her undergraduate education at the prestigious Bowdoin College in Maine on a full scholarship and she spent summers studying at the University of Wisconsin.

Mills worked in the public welfare sector in areas such as job training after graduation and helping welfare recipients to gain employment.

Is judge karen married

She is 58 years old as of Karen was born the oldest in a family of five children to Andrea Mills. Some sources state that Karen had a husband who was Jamaican but later he died. Judge Karen also fostered an year-old Jamaican child. She has also repeatedly opened her home to those in need. She practiced law for 13 years both for the state in the Office of the Public Defender, as well as in private practice.

She then became a Traffic Magistrate in hearing non-criminal traffic cases. Mills became a Traffic Magistrate in hearing non-criminal traffic cases. She was driven by the lack of diversity in the court system to decide to run for a judgeship in She won her first election by overthrowing a longtime incumbent and becoming the second black woman to serve on the bench in Miami-Dade County.

Mills was elected twice to the position of Miami-Dade County Judge, Judge Karen and hence made it her mission to support those who are at risk of getting lost in the legal system. Judge Karen was the host of American arbitration-based reality court show that aired in first-run syndication.