10 Questions Live: What was it like to be a prosecutor at 20? Robyn Crawford shares her experience
Robyn Crawford’s path to her job as an assistant state’s attorney in Florida may have been short, but it wasn’t always smooth.
“I was originally just in a public high school, and wasn’t getting along very well with some of the teachers and the things that they were teaching me,” she told reporter Jenny Davis during the ABA’s 10 Questions Live Google Hangout on Thursday. “So we decided to take kind of an alternative path to my education, which started with me in my freshman year of high school enrolling in a local community college and also being homeschooled at the same time.”
She credits her parents with both recognizing her potential and helping her accelerate through school. She passed the bar at age 20, and has been prosecuting misdemeanor cases for the 5th Judicial Circuit’s Citrus County office for a year now.
“Of course, watching TV, I thought I would be spending every single day in the courtroom, standing up and objecting valiantly against the opposing counsel,” Crawford told Davis. “But it ends up being a lot more work in the office and behind the scenes.”
Watch the video of her full conversation with Jenny Davis below.
