Kenneth A. Cutler, a Coral Springs attorney and vice mayor of Parkland, received the Florida Historical Society’s Golden Quill Award for his article “Mystery Solved: Justice George W. Macrae” in the Fall/Winter 2021 issue of the Florida Supreme Court Historical Society’s Historical Review magazine. The award presentation was part of the May 2022 FHS Public History Forum in Gainesville. Historical Review Editor Melanie Kalmanson and Cutler are pictured here in front of Justice Macrae’s “imaginary” portrait in the Florida Supreme Court gallery in Tallahassee. “His import was significant historically for our state and his roots are tied to the earliest parts of American history,” Cutler said..

“Mystery Solved: Justice George W. Macrae,” published in the Florida Supreme Court Historical Society’s Historical Review Fall/Winter 2021 magazine, received the Florida Historical Society’s 2022 Golden Quill Award for an outstanding article on Florida history.

The story of Florida’s fourth Supreme Court justice, about whom little was known before the article, was researched and authored by Kenneth A. Cutler, a Coral Springs attorney at Cutler Rader and vice mayor of Parkland.