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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 Judge Carlos E. Mendoza: Orlando: 1970 2014–present — — Obama: 40 District Judge William F. Jung: Tampa: 1958 2018–present — — Trump: 41 District Judge Thomas P. Barber: Tampa: 1966 2019–present — — Trump: 42 District Judge Wendy Berger: Jacksonville: 1968 2019–present — — Trump: 43 District Judge John ...
Gerald Bard Tjoflat (born December 6, 1929) is an American lawyer and Senior United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. [1] He previously served as a U.S. district judge on the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida from 1970 to 1975 and as a state court judge on the Fourth Judicial Circuit of Florida from 1968 to 1970.
The investiture, a ceremony in which a judge formally gets his robes and is sworn in, will be in courtroom 2-E and is open to the public. Investiture ceremony for Circuit Judge Lance Neff set for ...
Lance Neff, general counsel for the Florida Department of Corrections and a judge advocate for the Florida National Guard, has been appointed to the 2nd Judicial Circuit bench, succeeding the late ...
Judge Duty station Born Term of service Appointed by Active Chief Senior; 24 Chief Judge Mark E. Walker: Tallahassee: 1967 2012–present 2018–present — Obama: 22 District Judge M. Casey Rodgers: Pensacola: 1964 2003–present 2011–2018 — G.W. Bush: 25 District Judge Allen Winsor: Tallahassee: 1976 2019–present — — Trump: 26 ...
The new facility is located Downtown Jacksonville, Florida; it was built starting in 2009 and opened in 2012. Duval County was created on August 12, 1822 and was formerly part of St. Johns County . Although the county's area was huge, it took more than twenty years before the first courthouse was constructed during the 1840s.
Thomas J. "T.J." Reddick Jr.: [61] [62] First African American male to serve as a circuit court judge in Broward County, Florida (1972) [63] Zebedee Wright: [64] First African American male appointed as a County Court Judge in Broward County, Florida (1982) Robert Lee: [65] First openly LGBT male judge in Broward County, Florida (1997)