About me
Rodolfo “Rudy” Armando Ruiz II is a District Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida. Judge Ruiz serves on the Local Rules Committee of the Judicial Council of the United States Eleventh Judicial Circuit. He is also Chair of the Probation Committee for the Southern District of Florida and former Chair of the Court’s Budget Committee. Judge Ruiz currently presides over two transferee assignments from the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation—MDL-3090, In Re: Fortra File Transfer Software Data Security Breach Litigation and MDL-2994, In Re: Mednax Services, Inc., Customer Data Security Breach Litigation.
Prior to his confirmation to the federal bench, Judge Ruiz was a Circuit Court Judge for the Eleventh Judicial Circuit of Florida from 2014 through 2019, and a Miami-Dade County Court Judge from 2012 through 2014. During his tenure as a state court judge, Judge Ruiz served as Chair of the Florida Bar’s Civil Procedure Rules Committee. He was also appointed to the Florida Supreme Court Committee on Standard Jury Instructions in Criminal Cases. Judge Ruiz was an active Florida judicial faculty member and served as the Eleventh Judicial Circuit Court Liaison to Dade Legal Aid.
Prior to taking the state court bench, Judge Ruiz was an Assistant County Attorney with the Miami-Dade County Attorney’s Office from 2009 through 2012. As an Assistant County Attorney, Judge Ruiz represented Miami-Dade County and government employees in federal and state court at both trial and appellate levels, serving as a member of the Federal Litigation, Tax & Finance, and Torts Sections. Before joining the Miami-Dade County Attorney’s Office, Judge Ruiz was an associate with White & Case L.L.P. from 2006 through 2008, where he specialized in mergers and acquisitions, asset-backed financings, and general corporate matters as a member of the firm’s Corporate Latin America practice group.
Judge Ruiz served as a law clerk to the Honorable Federico A. Moreno of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida from 2005 through 2006. He received a Bachelor of Science in Economics from Duke University and his law degree from Georgetown University, where he served as the Articles Editor for the American Criminal Law Review. He currently serves as Board Vice Chair of the Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University. He is also a member of the Georgetown Law Alumni Board and a member of the Judicial Group of Directors of the South Florida Chapter of the Federal Bar Association. Judge Ruiz has also served as an adjunct professor of law at St. Thomas University School of Law, teaching Complex Litigation.