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Elijah Smiley: [58] [59] First African American male to serve as the Chief Judge of the Fourteenth Judicial Circuit in Florida (2015) [Bay, Calhoun, Gulf, Holmes, Jackson and Washington Counties, Florida] James E.C. Perry: [38] First African American male to serve on the Eighteenth Judicial Circuit in Florida (2003) [Brevard and Seminole ...
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)
Florida Supreme Court Chief Justice Carlos G. Muniz assembled a 14-member panel made up of attorneys and judges to study the merits of consolidating the judicial circuits.
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.
He was known as "Buddy" to most people, even on the bench, but 15th District Circuit Judge Claiborne McDonald IV took his role as a judge seriously. McDonald, 75, died Monday at Forrest General ...
Overall, Biden is outpacing every other president since Richard Nixon in confirming circuit court judges, who have the last word in most federal cases. With public defenders as judges, Biden ...
From 1996 to 2009, he served as a judge for the 15th Circuit Court in Palm Beach County, Florida. He is notable as the non-partisan judge who refused a new county-only vote during the 2000 U.S. Presidential election on the grounds that the Constitution stated that an election must be held everywhere in the United States on the same day, not ...
Following law school graduation, Williams became a law clerk for the firm of Colson & Hicks, P.A. in Miami, Florida from 1980 – 1982. From 1982 – 1984 she was an associate attorney with Fowler, White, Burnett, Hurley, Banick & Strickroot [1] where she handled many aspects of insurance defense matters including legal research and writing, filing and arguing pretrial motions, and taking ...