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Judicial Appointments

Governor Rick Scott

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This page lists judges appointed by Rick Scott (R) during his term as Governor of Florida. As of today, the total number of Scott appointees was 265. For the full profile of Scott, click here.

Ballotpedia provides comprehensive coverage of the 100 largest cities in America by population. Some Florida judges are outside of that coverage scope. As a result, this page does not provide an exhaustive list of all judges appointed by Gov. Scott.

Appointment process

In Florida, the governor makes a judicial appointment after candidates are recommended by a judicial nominating commission. After the governor appoints a judge, she or he must run for retention at the appellate level or election at the trial court level in the next general election after one year in office.

Appointed judges

The tables below list the governor's appointees to the courts across the state.

State Courts

Supreme Court

Name	Court	Active
C. Alan Lawson	Florida Supreme Court	December 31, 2016 - August 31, 2022

Court of Appeals

Name	Court	Active
Thomas D. Winokur	Florida 1st District Court of Appeal	June 11, 2015 - Present
Timothy D. Osterhaus	Florida 1st District Court of Appeal	May 20, 2013 - Present
Ross L. Bilbrey	Florida 1st District Court of Appeal	December 23, 2014 - Present
Harvey Jay III	Florida 1st District Court of Appeal	2016 - December 31, 2022
Allen Winsor	Florida 1st District Court of Appeal	2016 - 2019
Scott D. Makar	Florida 1st District Court of Appeal	2012 - December 31, 2022
M. Kemmerly Thomas	Florida 1st District Court of Appeal	June 20, 2016 - Present
Ronald V. Swanson	Florida 1st District Court of Appeal	2011 - 2016
Susan Kelsey	Florida 1st District Court of Appeal	April 16, 2015 - Present
Stephanie Williams Ray	Florida 1st District Court of Appeal	2011 - Present
Susan Rothstein-Youakim	Florida 2nd District Court of Appeal	2016 - Present
John L. Badalamenti	Florida 2nd District Court of Appeal	April 30, 2015 - 2020
Matthew C. Lucas	Florida 2nd District Court of Appeal	December 23, 2014 - Present
J. Andrew Atkinson	Florida 2nd District Court of Appeal	2018 - Present
Andrea Teves Smith	Florida 2nd District Court of Appeal	February 1, 2019 - Present
Samuel Salario	Florida 2nd District Court of Appeal	December 23, 2014 - June 4, 2020
Daniel H. Sleet	Florida 2nd District Court of Appeal	December 21, 2012 - Present
Thomas W. Logue	Florida 3rd District Court of Appeal	June 7, 2012 - Present
Bronwyn C. Miller	Florida 3rd District Court of Appeal	2019 - Present
Edwin A. Scales III	Florida 3rd District Court of Appeal	October 21, 2013 - Present
Eric Hendon	Florida 3rd District Court of Appeal	2019 - February 26, 2024
Robert J. Luck	Florida 3rd District Court of Appeal	2017 - January 14, 2019
Norma S. Lindsey	Florida 3rd District Court of Appeal	May 26, 2016 - Present
Ivan F. Fernandez	Florida 3rd District Court of Appeal	August 12, 2011 - Present
Mark W. Klingensmith	Florida 4th District Court of Appeal	June 27, 2013 - Present
Alan O. Forst	Florida 4th District Court of Appeal	March 7, 2013 - Present
Jeffrey T. Kuntz	Florida 4th District Court of Appeal	November 4, 2016 - Present
Burton C. Conner	Florida 4th District Court of Appeal	2011 - Present
Brian D. Lambert	Florida 5th District Court of Appeal	May 19, 2014 - Present
Frederic Rand Wallis	Florida 5th District Court of Appeal	May 29, 2013 - Present
Jamie Rutland Grosshans	Florida 5th District Court of Appeal	2018 - September 14, 2020
Meredith Sasso	Florida 5th District Court of Appeal	2019 - January 1, 2023
Wendy W. Berger	Florida 5th District Court of Appeal	August 21, 2012 - 2019
John M. Harris	Florida 5th District Court of Appeal	2018 - Present
James A. Edwards	Florida 5th District Court of Appeal	November 14, 2014 - Present
Eric Eisnaugle	Florida 5th District Court of Appeal	2017 - Present

Local Courts

Name	Court	Active
Susan Miller-Jones	Alachua County Court
Richard B. Davis Jr.	Bradford County Court
Thomas Brown	Brevard County Court
Michelle Naberhaus	Brevard County Court	2016 - 2020
Christopher W. Pole	Broward County Court
Nina Di Pietro	Broward County Court
Daniel Kanner	Broward County Court
Giuseppina Miranda	Broward County Court
Kristina Mobley	Clay County Court
Michael Brown	Collier County Court
Cynthia S. Munkittrick	Dixie County Court
Meredith Charbula	Duval County Court
Erin Perry	Duval County Court	2019 - January 4, 2021
Mose Floyd	Duval County Court	2011 - Present
Eric Roberson	Duval County Court	2015 - 2017
Kelly Eckley-Moulder	Duval County Court	2016 - Present
Scott Mitchell	Duval County Court	2012 - Present
Lester Bass	Duval County Court
Jennifer J. Frydrychowicz	Escambia County Court
Kerra Smith	Escambia County Court
Amy Brodersen	Escambia County Court
David Ward	Florida 10th Circuit Court
Jalal Harb	Florida 10th Circuit Court
Andrea Teves Smith	Florida 10th Circuit Court	June 30, 2013 - 2019
Michael McDaniel	Florida 10th Circuit Court
Glenn Terry Shelby	Florida 10th Circuit Court
Juan Ojeda	Florida 10th Circuit Court
Reinaldo Ojeda	Florida 10th Circuit Court
J. Kevin Abdoney	Florida 10th Circuit Court
Kelly P. Butz	Florida 10th Circuit Court
Eric Hendon	Florida 11th Circuit Court	2012 - 2019
Alexander Bokor	Florida 11th Circuit Court
Robert J. Luck	Florida 11th Circuit Court	2013 - 2017
Renatha Francis	Florida 11th Circuit Court
Alan Fine	Florida 11th Circuit Court
Victoria R. Brennan	Florida 11th Circuit Court
Spencer Multack	Florida 11th Circuit Court	January 19, 2018 - Present
Andrea Wolfson	Florida 11th Circuit Court	2018 - Present
Lourdes Simon	Florida 11th Circuit Court	2017 - Present
Fleur J. Lobree	Florida 11th Circuit Court
Dawn V. Denaro	Florida 11th Circuit Court	June 4, 2018 - Present
Carlos M. Guzman	Florida 11th Circuit Court	2018 - Present
Ivonne Cuesta	Florida 11th Circuit Court
Jason Dimitris	Florida 11th Circuit Court	2017 - Present
Laura Stuzin	Florida 11th Circuit Court
Lisa S. Walsh	Florida 11th Circuit Court	2011 - Present
Charlie Johnson	Florida 11th Circuit Court	2015 - Present
Rosa C. Figarola	Florida 11th Circuit Court
Ariana Fajardo	Florida 11th Circuit Court
Angelica Zayas	Florida 11th Circuit Court
Rodney Smith	Florida 11th Circuit Court	2012 - 2019
Rodolfo Ruiz	Florida 11th Circuit Court	2015 - 2019
Cristina Miranda	Florida 11th Circuit Court
Thomas J. Rebull	Florida 11th Circuit Court	October 7, 2011 - October 1, 2020
Michael A. Hanzman	Florida 11th Circuit Court
Victoria del Pino	Florida 11th Circuit Court	2016 - Present
Brian Iten	Florida 12th Circuit Court
Teresa Kaklis Dees	Florida 12th Circuit Court
Lon Arend	Florida 12th Circuit Court
Charles P. Sniffen	Florida 12th Circuit Court
Don T. Hall	Florida 12th Circuit Court
Kimberly Bonner	Florida 12th Circuit Court
Andrea Watt McHugh	Florida 12th Circuit Court
Hunter Carroll	Florida 12th Circuit Court
Kim Hernandez Brennan	Florida 13th Circuit Court	2014 - Present
Darren Farfante	Florida 13th Circuit Court
Anne-Leigh Gaylord Moe	Florida 13th Circuit Court
Laurel Lee	Florida 13th Circuit Court	2013 - 2019
Michael Scott Williams	Florida 13th Circuit Court
Nick Nazaretian	Florida 13th Circuit Court
Chris Nash	Florida 13th Circuit Court	2015 - Present
Lawrence M. Lefler	Florida 13th Circuit Court
Mark Kiser	Florida 13th Circuit Court	2015 - Present
Wesley Tibbals	Florida 13th Circuit Court	2015 - Present
Christine Marlewski	Florida 13th Circuit Court
Jennifer Gabbard	Florida 13th Circuit Court
James J. Goodman	Florida 14th Circuit Court	September 8, 2017 - Present
Shonna Young Gay	Florida 14th Circuit Court
Dustin Stephenson	Florida 14th Circuit Court	February 1, 2019 - Present
Ana Maria Garcia	Florida 14th Circuit Court
Scott Suskauer	Florida 15th Circuit Court
Cheryl Caracuzzo	Florida 15th Circuit Court
Kirk C. Volker	Florida 15th Circuit Court
Gregory M. Keyser	Florida 15th Circuit Court
Jeffrey Dana Gillen	Florida 15th Circuit Court
James Ferrara	Florida 15th Circuit Court
Dina Keever	Florida 15th Circuit Court
Rosemarie Scher	Florida 15th Circuit Court
Janis Keyser	Florida 15th Circuit Court
Edward Artau	Florida 15th Circuit Court
Howard K. Coates	Florida 15th Circuit Court
Tim Koenig	Florida 16th Circuit Court
Nina Weatherly Di Pietro	Florida 17th Circuit Court
Lynn Rosenthal	Florida 17th Circuit Court
Stacy Ross	Florida 17th Circuit Court
Edward Merrigan Jr.	Florida 17th Circuit Court
Keathan Frink	Florida 17th Circuit Court
Elizabeth Scherer	Florida 17th Circuit Court
Alberto Ribas	Florida 17th Circuit Court
Yael Gamm	Florida 17th Circuit Court
Kal Le Var Evans	Florida 17th Circuit Court
Anuraag Singhal	Florida 17th Circuit Court	2011 - 2019
Ernest Kollra	Florida 17th Circuit Court
Jose Izquierdo	Florida 17th Circuit Court
Stephen Zaccor	Florida 17th Circuit Court
Fabienne Fahnestock	Florida 17th Circuit Court
Melissa Souto	Florida 18th Circuit Court
Kelly Jo McKibben	Florida 18th Circuit Court
Janet Carney Croom	Florida 19th Circuit Court
Charles Schwab	Florida 19th Circuit Court
Coleman Robinson	Florida 1st Circuit Court
Darlene F. Dickey	Florida 1st Circuit Court
John F. Simon	Florida 1st Circuit Court
Thomas Dannheisser	Florida 1st Circuit Court
J. Scott Duncan	Florida 1st Circuit Court
John Duryea	Florida 20th Circuit Court
James D. Sloan	Florida 20th Circuit Court
Leigh Frizzell Hayes	Florida 20th Circuit Court
Donald Herbert Mason	Florida 20th Circuit Court
Geoffrey Gentile	Florida 20th Circuit Court
Amy R. Hawthorne	Florida 20th Circuit Court
Robert Branning	Florida 20th Circuit Court
Kevin Carroll	Florida 2nd Circuit Court
Robert E. Long Jr.	Florida 2nd Circuit Court
Francis Allman Jr.	Florida 2nd Circuit Court
Robert R. Wheeler	Florida 2nd Circuit Court
Martin Fitzpatrick	Florida 2nd Circuit Court
Marianne Lloyd Aho	Florida 4th Circuit Court	2014 - Present
Robert Dees	Florida 4th Circuit Court
Gary Wilkinson	Florida 4th Circuit Court
Russell L. Healey	Florida 4th Circuit Court
Tyrie W. Boyer	Florida 4th Circuit Court
Tatiana Salvador	Florida 4th Circuit Court
Steven Fahlgren	Florida 4th Circuit Court
Eric Roberson	Florida 4th Circuit Court
Kevin Blazs	Florida 4th Circuit Court
Angela M. Cox	Florida 4th Circuit Court
Anthony Tatti	Florida 5th Circuit Court
Jennifer Bass	Florida 5th Circuit Court
Donald Scaglione	Florida 5th Circuit Court
Peter Brigham	Florida 5th Circuit Court
Gary Sanders	Florida 5th Circuit Court
Lisa D. Herndon	Florida 5th Circuit Court
Thomas Eineman	Florida 5th Circuit Court
Ann Melinda Craggs	Florida 5th Circuit Court
Frederick Pollack	Florida 6th Circuit Court
Christopher LaBruzzo	Florida 6th Circuit Court
Kemba Lewis	Florida 6th Circuit Court
Gregory Groger	Florida 6th Circuit Court
Sherwood S. Coleman	Florida 6th Circuit Court	2013 - Present
Lauralee Westine	Florida 6th Circuit Court
Steven Henderson	Florida 7th Circuit Court
R. Lee Smith	Florida 7th Circuit Court
Howard Maltz	Florida 7th Circuit Court
Howard O. McGillin Jr.	Florida 7th Circuit Court
David B. Beck	Florida 7th Circuit Court
Thomas Portuallo	Florida 7th Circuit Court
Charles David Hood Jr.	Florida 7th Circuit Court
Donna Keim	Florida 8th Circuit Court
David Koenig	Florida 8th Circuit Court
James Colaw	Florida 8th Circuit Court
Monica J. Brasington	Florida 8th Circuit Court
Susanne Wilson Bullard	Florida 8th Circuit Court
David P. Kreider	Florida 8th Circuit Court
Robert K. Groeb	Florida 8th Circuit Court
Wayne Wooten	Florida 9th Circuit Court
Patricia Strowbridge	Florida 9th Circuit Court	2015 - Present
Chad Alvaro	Florida 9th Circuit Court	March 12, 2018 - Present
Denise Beamer	Florida 9th Circuit Court	2019 - Present
Heather P. Rodriguez	Florida 9th Circuit Court
John E. Jordan	Florida 9th Circuit Court
Christi L. Underwood	Florida 9th Circuit Court
Daniel Traver	Florida 9th Circuit Court	2014 - 2019
Greg Tynan	Florida 9th Circuit Court	2014 - Present
Heather L. Higbee	Florida 9th Circuit Court
Keith A. Carsten	Florida 9th Circuit Court
Margaret H. Schreiber	Florida 9th Circuit Court
Scott Cupp	Hendry County Court
Donald McCathran Jr.	Hernando County Court
Cynthia Sullivan Oster	Hillsborough County Court
Jared Smith	Hillsborough County Court
Daryl Manning	Hillsborough County Court
Kim Hernandez Vance	Hillsborough County Court
Zachary Gill	Lee County Court
H. Andrew Swett	Lee County Court
Devin George	Lee County Court
Stephen Everett	Leon County Court
J. Layne Smith	Leon County Court
Renee Inman	Manatee County Court
Curtis L. Disque	Martin County Court
Renatha Francis	Miami-Dade County Court
Alexander Bokor	Miami-Dade County Court
Joseph Mansfield	Miami-Dade County Court
Gina Beovides	Miami-Dade County Court
Dawn V. Denaro	Miami-Dade County Court
Victoria del Pino	Miami-Dade County Court
Natalie Moore	Miami-Dade County Court	2019 - Present
Robert Watson	Miami-Dade County Court	2019 - 2019
Donald Cannava Jr.	Miami-Dade County Court	2011 - Present
Betty Capote-Erben	Miami-Dade County Court	2012 - Present
Gordon Charles Murray Sr.	Miami-Dade County Court	2017 - Present
Spencer Multack	Miami-Dade County Court
Carlos M. Guzman	Miami-Dade County Court
Jason Dimitris	Miami-Dade County Court	2013 - 2017
Elijah Levitt	Miami-Dade County Court	2018 - September 30, 2022
Christine Bandin	Miami-Dade County Court	2018 - May 30, 2023
Raul Cuervo	Miami-Dade County Court	2018 - Present
Diana Vizcaino	Miami-Dade County Court	2015 - 2021
Luis Perez-Medina	Miami-Dade County Court	2018 - Present
William Altfield	Miami-Dade County Court	August 10, 2011 - August 19, 2019
Mark David Wilson	Monroe County Court
Wesley R. Poole	Nassau County Court
Jamie Rutland Grosshans	Orange County Court	2017 - 2018
Jeanette Bigney	Orange County Court	2012 - Present
Carly Wish	Orange County Court	2019 - Present
Elizabeth Starr	Orange County Court	2015 - Present
Daliah Weiss	Palm Beach County Court
Robert G. Panse	Palm Beach County Court
Holly Grissinger	Pinellas County Court	2014 - Present
Myriam Irizarry	Pinellas County Court
Sharon M. Franklin	Polk County Court
Gerald Paul Hill II	Polk County Court
Jose A. Giraud	Santa Rosa County Court
Erika Quartermaine	Sarasota County Court
Nirlaine Tallandier Smartt	St. Lucie County Court
Daryl Isenhower	St. Lucie County Court
Paul Militello	Sumter County Court
Judith Duggan Davidson	Volusia County Court

Judicial selection process

See also: Judicial selection in Florida

Judicial selection in Florida
Florida Supreme Court
Method:	Assisted appointment
Term:	6 years
Florida District Courts of Appeal
Method:	Assisted appointment
Term:	6 years
Florida Circuit Court
Method:	Nonpartisan election
Term:	6 years
Florida County Court
Method:	Nonpartisan election
Term:	6 years

Judicial selection refers to the process used to select judges for courts. At the state level, methods of judicial selection vary substantially in the United States, and in some cases between different court types within a state. There are six primary types of judicial selection: partisan and nonpartisan elections, the Michigan method, assisted appointment, gubernatorial appointment, and legislative elections. To read more about how these selection methods are used across the country, click here.

This article covers how state court judges are selected in Florida, including:

• Florida Supreme Court,
• Florida District Courts of Appeal,
• Florida Circuit Court, and
• Limited jurisdiction courts

As of April 2025, judges for the Florida Supreme Court and Florida District Courts of Appeal were selected through the assisted appointment method, where the governor selects a nominee from a list provided by a nominating commission. Judges for the Florida Circuit Courts and Florida County Courts were selected through nonpartisan elections.

Click here to notify us of changes to judicial selection methods in this state.

Appellate state court selection in the United States, by general selection method

State courts and their selection methods across the U.S., including the District of Columbia
Method	Supreme Court (of 53)	Courts of Appeal (of 46)	Trial Courts (of 147)
Partisan elections (PE)	8	6	39
Nonpartisan elections (NPE)	13	16	34
Legislative elections (LE)	2	2	5
Gubernatorial appointment of judges (GA)	5	3	6
Assisted appointment (AA)	22	18	46
Combination or other	3	1	17

State profile

Demographic data for Florida
	Florida	U.S.
Total population:	20,244,914	316,515,021
Land area (sq mi):	53,625	3,531,905
Race and ethnicity**
White:	76%	73.6%
Black/African American:	16.1%	12.6%
Asian:	2.6%	5.1%
Native American:	0.3%	0.8%
Pacific Islander:	0.1%	0.2%
Two or more:	2.4%	3%
Hispanic/Latino:	23.7%	17.1%
Education
High school graduation rate:	86.9%	86.7%
College graduation rate:	27.3%	29.8%
Income
Median household income:	$47,507	$53,889
Persons below poverty level:	19.8%	11.3%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, "American Community Survey" (5-year estimates 2010-2015) Click here for more information on the 2020 census and here for more on its impact on the redistricting process in Florida. **Note: Percentages for race and ethnicity may add up to more than 100 percent because respondents may report more than one race and the Hispanic/Latino ethnicity may be selected in conjunction with any race. Read more about race and ethnicity in the census here.

Presidential voting pattern

See also: Presidential voting trends in Florida

Florida voted Republican in five out of the seven presidential elections between 2000 and 2024.

Pivot Counties (2016)

Ballotpedia identified 206 counties that voted for Donald Trump (R) in 2016 after voting for Barack Obama (D) in 2008 and 2012. Collectively, Trump won these Pivot Counties by more than 580,000 votes. Of these 206 counties, four are located in Florida, accounting for 1.94 percent of the total pivot counties.

Pivot Counties (2020)

In 2020, Ballotpedia re-examined the 206 Pivot Counties to view their voting patterns following that year's presidential election. Ballotpedia defined those won by Trump won as Retained Pivot Counties and those won by Joe Biden (D) as Boomerang Pivot Counties. Nationwide, there were 181 Retained Pivot Counties and 25 Boomerang Pivot Counties. Florida had three Retained Pivot Counties and one Boomerang Pivot County, accounting for 1.66 and 4.00 percent of all Retained and Boomerang Pivot Counties, respsectively.

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See also

• Judges appointed by Ron DeSantis

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External links

• Office of the Governor

Footnotes

Florida courts

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Federal courts:

Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals • U.S. District Court: Middle District of Florida, Northern District of Florida, Southern District of Florida • U.S. Bankruptcy Court: Middle District of Florida, Northern District of Florida, Southern District of Florida

State courts:

Florida Supreme Court • Florida District Courts of Appeal • Florida Circuit Court • Florida County Court

State resources:

Courts in Florida • Florida judicial elections • Judicial selection in Florida