Judges on the ballot

Florida District Court of Appeal Judges

According to Florida Courts, the purpose of Florida’s District Courts of Appeal is to provide the opportunity for thoughtful review of decisions of lower tribunals by multi-judge panels. District Courts of Appeal correct harmful errors and ensure that decisions are consistent with our rights and liberties. This process contributes to the development, clarity, and consistency of the law.




Florida First District Court of Appeal

Harvey Jay
Stephanie Ray
Brad Thomas
Kemmerly Thomas
Allen Winsor

Second District Court of Appeal

Anthony Black
Darryl Casanueva
Edward LaRose
Susan Rothstien-Youakim

Third District Court of Appeal

Kevin Emas
Ivan Fernandez
Norma Shepard Lindsey
Robert Joshua Luck

Fourth District Court of Appeal

Burton Conner
Jeffrey Kuntz
Carole Taylor

Fifth District Court of Appeal

Eric Eisnaugle

Photo by the Florida Bar


Circuit Judges 

First Circuit — Escambia, Okaloosa, Santa Rosa and Walton

Group 1/1: John Jay Gontarek

Group 1/4: Darlene Dickey

Group 1/5: Thomas Victor Dannheisser

Group 1/6: Jeff Burns

Group 1/7: Lacey Powell Clark

Group 1/9: Kelvin Clyde Wells

Group 1/12: Jeffrey Lewis

Group 1/13: Mary Polson

Group 1/14: Linda Nobles

Group 1/15: Terry Ketchel

Group 1/18: John Miller

Group 1/23: Gary Bergosh

Group 1/24: Ross Goodman

Second Circuit — Franklin, Gadsden, Jefferson, Leon, Liberty, and Wakulla


Group 2/1: Bobby Long

Group 2/2: Barbara Hobbs

Group 2/3: Ron Flury

Group 2/5: Francis Barclay

Group 2/7: Robert Wheeler

Group 2/12: Lisa Barclay Fountain


Third Circuit — Columbia, Dixie, Hamilton, Lafayette, Madison, Suwannee and Taylor


Group 3/2: Melissa Gates Olin

Group 3/3: David Fina

Group 3/5: Wes Douglas

Fourth Circuit — Clay, Duval and Nassau


Group 4/3:  Don Lester

Group 4/7: Steven Whittington

Group 4/14: Thomas More Beverly

Group 4/16: Karen Cole

Group 4/17: Katie Dearing

Group 4/18: Maureen Horkan, Charles McBurney

Group 4/19: Kevin Blazs

Group 4/22: Robert Dees

Group 4/24: Gary Wilkinson

Group 4/25: Eric Roberson

Group 4/29: Mark Jeffrey Borello

Group 4/32: John Guy

Group 4/33: Collins Cooper

Group 4/34: Suzanne Bass

Group 4/35: Daniel Wilensky


Fifth Circuit — Citrus, Hernando, Lake, Marion and Sumter


Group 5/4: Don Barbee, Edward Spaight

Group 5/7: Michelle Morley

Group 5/8: Steven Glen Rogers

Group 5/13: Heidi Davis

Group 5/16: Jennifer Bass

Group 5/19: Stephen Toner Jr.

Group 5/20: Gary Sanders

Group 5/26: Anthony Tatti

Group 5/29: Edward Leon Scott

Group 5/30: Michael Takac

Group 5/31: Daniel Merritt Jr.

Sixth Circuit — Pasco and Pinellas


Group 6/4: Dustin Anderson, Dave Ellis, Roxanne Fixsen

Group 6/9: Claudia Elizabeth Blackwell, Christine Helinger

Group 6/10: Philip Federico

Group 6/11: Thomas Ramsberger

Group 6/12: Dee Anna Farnell

Group 6/13 Kemba Lewis

Group 6/14: Declan Mansfield

Group 6/15: Bill Burgess

Group 6/23: Amy Martha Williams

Group 6/24: Joseph Bulone

Group 6/31: Kimberly "Kim" Campbell

Group 6/32: Pat Siracusa

Group 6/34: Nancy Moate Ley

Group 6/35: Lauralee Ganson Westine

Group 6/36: Doneene Loar, Donald McBath, Thomas "Tommy" Minkoff

Group 6/40: Mike Trentalange

Group 6/43: Gregory Groger

Group 6/45: Evan Frayman


Seventh Circuit — St. Johns, Volusia, Flagler and Putnam


Group 7/1: Lee Smith

Group 7/2: Patti Ann Christensen

Group 7/8: Chris France

Group 7/9: Terence Perkins

Group 7/12: Mary Jolley

Group 7/15: Linda Gaustad, Sebrina Slack, Ryan Will

Group 7/16: Leah Case

Group 7/21: Elizabeth Blackburn

Group 7/27: Clyde Wolfe


Eighth Circuit — Alachua, Baker, Bradford, Gilchrist, Levy, and Union


Group 8/3:  Susanne Wilson Bullard

Group 8/4: Stan Griffis

Group 8/5: Denise Ferrero

Group 8/8: David Robertson, Julie Waldman, Gloria Walker


Ninth Circuit — Orange and Osceola


Group 9/5; Jenifer Harris

Group 9/7: Leticia Marquest

Group 9/11:
 ail Adams

Group 9/15: Jeff ASton, Howard Friedman

9/19: Mike Murphy

9/20: Mark Steven Blechman

9/26: Joseph Haynes Davis, Tom Young

9/27: Keith White

9/28:Patricia Doherty

9/37: Tanya Davis Wilson

9/41: Lorraine Elizabeth DeYoung, Dean Mosley, Laura Shaffer

9/42: Tim Shea

9/43: Bob LeBlanc 

Tenth Circuit — Hardee, Highlands, and Polk


10/3: Steven Selph

10/5: Michael McDaniel

10/6: David Ward

10/7: William "Bill" Sites

10/10: Lee Cohen, Melissa Gravitt, Keith Merritt

10/11: Dana Moore, Stephen Paul Pincket

10/14: Wayne Durden

10/27: Catherine Combee

10/28: John Stargel


Eleventh Circuit — Dade


11/8: Elisabeth Espinosa, David Miller

11/13: Jose Fernandez

11/14: Vivianne del Rio, Renee Gordon, Louis Martinez

11/15: Maria Elena Verde

11/21: Bronwyn Catherine Miller

11/22: Rosy Aponte, Shearon Cruz

11/24: Mindy Glazer

11/25: Yery Merrero, Joe Perkins

11/29: Pedro Echarte

11/31: Carlos Lopez

11/36: Lisa Sharon Walsh

11/42: Miguel de la O

11/43: Ellen Venzer

11/47: Maria de Jesus Santovenia

11/49: Teresa Mary Pooler

11/53: Jason Emilios Dimitris

11/54: Antonio "Tony" Arzola

11/56: Mari Espinosa Dennis

11/60: Michael Hanzman

11/66: Lourdes Simon

11/68: Victoria del Pino

11/71: Charlie Johnson

11/78: Valerie Manno Schurr

11/80: Marisa Tinkler Mendez




Twelfth Circuit — DeSoto, Manatee, and Sarasota


12/3: Charles Williams

12/4: Lon Arend

12/7: Don Hall

12/8: Andrew Watt McHugh

12/9: Hunter Carroll

12/12: Brian Iten, Mari Ruhl

12/13: Teresa Kaklis Dees

12/14: Frederick Mercurio

12/16: Donn Padar Berlin

12/20: Debra Johnes Riva

12/21: Rochelle Taylor Curley


Thirteenth Circuit — Hillsborough


13/12: Paul Huey

13/14: Mark Wolfe

13/16: Cheryl Thomas

13/25: Cissy Boza Sevelin, Starr Brookins, Robin Fuson, Jamey Moody

13/26: Ronald Ficarrotta

13/28: Christine Marlewski

13/32: Kim Hernandez Vance

13/35: Anne-Leigh Gaylord Moe

13/42: Darren David Farfante

13/43: Kimberly Kay Fernandez

13/44: Emily Peacock

13/45: Jennifer Gabbard


Fourteenth Circuit — Bay, Calhoun, Gulf, Holmes, Jackson and Washington

14/3: John Fishel II

14/4: Ana Maria Garcia

14/6: Shonna Young Gay

14/11: Elija Smiley

Fifteenth Circuit — Palm Beach


15/6: Janis Brustares Keyser

15/11: Joseph Marx

15/13: Jordan Jordan, Scott Ryan Kerner, Alcolya J. L. St. Juste

15/18: Maxine Cheesman, Marybel Reinoso Coleman, Joseph "Joe" Maryuma

15/19: Kathleen Kroll

15/24: Cymonie Rowe

15/25: Henry Quinn Johnson, Michael McAuliffe, Sarah Willis

15/26: James Martz

15/29: Daliah Weiss

Sixteenth Circuit — Monroe
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Seventeenth Circuit — Broward


17/1: Carol-Lisa Phillips

17/5: Nicholas "Nick" Lopane

17/8: Ernest Albert Kollra, Alan Schneider

17/10: Ari Abraham Porth

17/19: Michael Ian Rothschild

17/25: Fabienne Elizabeth Fahnestock

17/28: Jose Izquierdo

17/31: Tim Lawrence Bailey

17/32: Michael Robinson

17/34: Marin Samuel Fein

17/35: Keathan Frink

17/36: Shari Beth Africk-Olefson, Kristin Weisberg Padowitz

17/38: Jason Allen-Rosner, Melissa Minsk Donoho, Linda Marie Leali, Stephanie Camille Moon

17/39: Susan Lynn Alspector, Camille CoolidgeShotwell

17/40: Yael "Elle" Gamm

17/42: Richard Brian Kaplan, Michael Usan

17/43: Karen Elizabeth Berger

17/44: Tom Coleman

17/45: Al Ribas

17/46: James Curry, Mari Markhasin-Weekes, Walter "Dale" Miller

17/57: Michele Towbin Singer

Eighteenth Circuit — Brevard and Seminole


18/7: Lisa Davidson

18/8: Jeffrey Mahl

18/10: Debra Nelson

18/11: Marlene Alva

18/17: Jennifer Taylor

18/20: Charlie Crawford

18/24: Adam Pollack, Melissa Dyan Souto

18/26: James Earp

Nineteenth Circuit — Indian River, Martin, Okeechobee and St. Lucie


19/3: Sherwood "Chip" Bauer Jr.

19/12: Robert Belanger

19/19: Louis "Lou" Larsen, Robert "Bob" Meadows, Nirlaine Smartt


Twentieth Circuit — Charlotte, Collier, Glades, Hendry and Lee


20/1: Carolyn Swift

20/2: Frank Porter

20/5: Geoffrey Gentile

20/8: James Wesley Chandler, John Owen McGowan

20/9: Margaret "Meg" Ogilvie

20/14: Bruce Kyle

20/17: Leigh Frizzell Hayes

20/18: Joseph Foster

20/23: Lee Ann Schreiber

20/26: Lisa Spader Porter

20/27: Joseph Fuller

20/28: Elizabeth Krier

20/29: George Richards

20/30: Elisabeth Adams

20/31: Keith Kyle





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