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Hope Tieman-Bristol
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Prior offices:
Florida 17th Circuit Court

Education
Bachelor's
Emory University
Law
Nova Southeastern School of Law

Hope Bristol Tieman was a Juvenile Dependency Division judge of the 17th Judicial Circuit Court in Florida. She was elected on August 31, 2004. She ran unopposed and was retained in 2010 to a six-year term that ended on January 2, 2017.[1][2][3]

Education

Tieman-Bristol received her undergraduate degree from Emory University and her J.D. degree from Nova Southeastern School of Law. She was admitted to the Bar in 1989.[4]

Career

Tieman-Bristol spent a 15 years as a lawyer prior to joining the court. For ten of those years, she was an assistant state attorney in Broward County. During her last six years there, she prosecuted sex crimes and child abuse cases. She then started her own family law practice, which she maintained until she was elected to the circuit court in 2004.[5]

2010 election

Tieman ran unopposed and was automatically retained to a new term.[2]

Main article: Florida judicial elections, 2010

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