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The circuit courts primarily handle felony criminal cases, civil cases where the amount in controversy is greater than $30,000, as well as appeals from county courts. Circuit courts also have jurisdiction over domestic relations, juvenile dependency, juvenile delinquency, and probate matters. [4] Florida has twenty judicial circuits.
Stacy A. Scott: [75] First female Public Defender of the Eighth Judicial Circuit (2010) [Alachua, Baker, Bradford, Gilchrist, Levy and Union Counties, Florida] Susan C. Bucklew: [76] [77] First female appointed as a Judge of the Hillsborough County Superior Court (1982) and circuit court judge for the Thirteenth Judicial Circuit, Florida (1986)
In 1999, Honeywell applied for an opening on the Florida Circuit Courts, inspired in part by the appointment of Peggy Quince as the first African American female justice on the Florida Supreme Court. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] In 2000, Florida Governor Jeb Bush appointed Honeywell to a judicial post on the Thirteenth Circuit in Hillsborough County, which she ...
In the document, Keeler said he had no “prior judicial or public office” experience and was a 33-year state resident whose family owned a RV hospitality business in Port St. Lucie.
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The Florida circuit courts are state courts and trial courts [1] of original jurisdiction for most controversies. In Florida, the circuit courts are one of four types of courts created by the Florida Constitution (the other three being the Florida Supreme Court, Florida district courts of appeal, and Florida county courts).
The honorable Judge Robert Belanger, of the 19th Judicial Circuit Court, collects his personal belongings from his bench inside his courtroom in the St. Lucie County Courthouse on Monday, Nov. 6 ...
He was a public defender for the 19th Judicial Circuit from 1964 to 1968. He was a school board attorney of Indian River County from 1968 to 1978. He was a judge of the 19th Circuit Court in Vero Beach from 1978 to 1983. He was a member of the faculty of Indian River Community College (now Indian River State College) in Fort Pierce in 1979. [1]