Jimmy L.
Morales was first elected to the Miami-Dade Board of County
Commissioners on October 1996 to represent District 7,
and was re-elected to serve a second term on September
5, 2000. His commission district includes portions of
the City of Miami, Coral Gables, Pinecrest and all of
Key Biscayne.
Commissioner Morales serves as the Chairperson of the
Mayor's Task Force on Efficiency and Competition. He
also serves as the County's representative to the Downtown
Development Authority, the Dade League of Cities and
the Florida Association of Counties. He has also served
as the Chairman of the Commission's Budget, Finance
and Public Trust Committee.
Commissioner Morales has a long history of service
to the community. He has served on numerous not-for-profit
boards including the Dade Community Foundation, The
American Red Cross, Crimestoppers of Dade County, the
East Little Havana Community Development Corporation,
Aspira of Florida, and the Girl Scout Council of Tropical
Florida. Commissioner Morales is a graduate of both
the Leadership Miami and Leadership Florida Programs.
He is the recipient of the Bill Colson Leadership Award
for the Leadership Miami Program of the Greater Miami
Chamber of Commerce.
Commissioner Morales is a shareholder with the Miami
law firm of Steams Weaver Miller Waissier Alhadeff &
Sitterson, P.A. He specializes in corporate and international
law.
Commissioner Morales graduated Phi Beta Kappa and Magna
Cum Laude from Harvard University in 1984. He went on
to graduate Magna Cum Laude from Harvard Law School
in 1987. Commissioner Morales is a member of the Dade
County Bar Association, the Cuban American Bar Association,
the National Hispanic Bar Association, and the InterAmerican
Bar Association.
Commissioner Morales was born and raised on Miami Beach,
and currently resides in Coral Gables, He is married
and has a daughter, Nora Leigh, and a son Peter Jay.
