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The Florida Judicial Nominating Commissions are 26 separately constituted bodies responsible for providing the governor of Florida with a list of possible appointments to the various state courts (the Florida Supreme Court, the five Florida District Courts of Appeal, and the twenty Florida Circuit Courts). [1]
The Supreme Court of Florida is the highest judicial body in the state and sits at the apex of the Florida State Courts System.Its membership consists of seven justices–one of whom serves as Chief Justice–who are appointed by the Governor of Florida to 6-year terms and remain in office if retained in a general election near the end of each term.
District court of appeal judges, like Florida Supreme Court justices, are first recommended by the Florida Judicial Nominating Commission. They are then appointed by the governor of Florida , but have retention elections every six years, in which voters are asked on the ballot to vote whether the judge should be retained in office.
Broward County Commissioner, District 2. Mark D. Bogen. Write-in. Cooper City City Commissioner, District 1. Joshua Giancarlo. Jeremy Katzman. Cooper City City Commissioner, District 2. Lisa ...
The 2025 Florida's 1st congressional district special election will be held on April 1, 2025 [1] to fill a vacant seat in Florida's 1st congressional district previously occupied by Matt Gaetz, who resigned on November 13, 2024, after president-elect Donald Trump nominated him for attorney general of the United States. [2]
When the District Court of an Appeal for the Second District first convened, its headquarters were in the old Florida Citrus Commission building in Lakeland. In 1980 a branch headquarters for the Second District was authorized and in that same year was established in Tampa where the court maintains an additional courtroom and where eight of the ...
Previously, Sasso was appointed to the Fifth District Court of Appeal in January 2019 by former Gov. Rick Scott and recommissioned to the Sixth Court of Appeal by DeSantis on Jan. 1, 2023.
President George W. Bush nominated Covington to the United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida on April 20, 2004, to the seat vacated by Ralph Wilson Nimmons, Jr. She was confirmed by the Senate on September 7, 2004, she received her commission three days later. Covington serves on the Tampa Division of the court