[Editor's note: The below article, with minor edits, was provided courtesy of Bridget Holt of the University of Central Florida's Burnett Honors College]
The UCF Burnett Honors College is proud to announce that Charles “Chas” Short (Iota Theta/Central Florida 2006) has been awarded the 2010 Rising Star Alumni Award. The Rising Star Award recognizes a recent graduate of UCF who displays promise and excellence in his or her career, and Chas exemplifies those attributes.
Chas graduated with both University Honors (a four year program) as well as the Honors in the Major distinction (where he wrote an undergraduate thesis) with a 4.0 GPA. Chas was also a National Merit Finalist. During his time at UCF, he was an Honors Congress Director, a member of the LEAD Scholars program, founding Vice President of the Iota Theta chapter of Theta Chi Fraternity, and served on UCF's prestigious President’s Leadership Council.
He presently continues his involvement with UCF as an e-mail mentor to current Honors students and also by serving as the alumni advisor for Iota Theta. He currently funds a book scholarship awarded to a member of the chapter that demonstrates outstanding academic achievement.
Chas attended law school at the University of Florida where he served as the President of the John Marshall Bar Association (UF Law's student bar association), and graduated in the top 10 percent of his class. He has authored an article of legal scholarship (Guilt by Machine: The Problem of Source Code Discovery in Florida DUI Prosecutions) that was published in a forthcoming issue of the Florida Law Review. It will be his second published article.
Chas is an attorney in the Miami office of the law firm Carlton Fields. His practice focuses primarily on corporate internal investigations and white collar criminal matters.
Chas will be awarded the Rising Star Award at UCF’s Annual Black and Gold Gala on October 23 at the UCF Arena in Orlando, Florida. Congratulations, Chas!
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