After some controversy and legal ramblings concerning his place of residence a MOTION FOR EMERGENCY RELIEF was filed against McKinize. However, it was denied by the courts. Newly appointed Fort Lauderdale City Commissioner Robert L. McKinzie was sworn in as the Commissioner for City of Fort Lauderdale, District III. As McKinzie’s mother Hattie holds the bible, legendary retired Broward County Judge Zebedee Wright, the first Black male to graduate from Florida State University College of Law in 1971, gives McKinzie his charges and oath as the newly appointed Commissioner while Mayor John P. ‘Jack’ Seiler and other commissioners look on.