{"id":235039,"date":"2026-04-17T01:12:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T01:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/235039\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T01:12:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T01:12:09","slug":"justice-john-d-couriel-named-next-chief-justice-of-florida-supreme-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/235039\/","title":{"rendered":"Justice John D. Couriel named next chief justice of Florida Supreme Court"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\t\t\t\t\t\tJustice John D. Couriel has been named the next chief justice of the Florida Supreme Court. Couriel will begin his two-year term as chief justice on July 1. Your neighborhood: Local coverage from WPBF 25 NewsThe Miami native was appointed to the court by Gov. Ron DeSantis in 2020. Current Chief Justice Carlos Muniz will remain on the bench as a regular justice when Couriel takes over.Get the latest news updates with the WPBF 25 News app. You can download it here.\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\tTALLAHASSEE, Fla. \u2014 \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

Justice John D. Couriel has been named the next chief justice of the Florida Supreme Court. <\/p>\n

Couriel will begin his two-year term as chief justice on July 1. <\/p>\n

\t\t\"04-16-2026<\/p>\n

\n\t\tFlorida Supreme Court\t<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tOn Thursday, April 16, 2026,\u00a0John D. Couriel was named chief justice of Florida Supreme Court.<\/p>\n

Your neighborhood: Local coverage from WPBF 25 News<\/a><\/p>\n

The Miami native was appointed to the court by Gov. Ron DeSantis in 2020. <\/p>\n

Current Chief Justice Carlos Muniz will remain on the bench as a regular justice when Couriel takes over.<\/p>\n

Get the latest news updates with the WPBF 25 News app. You can download it here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Justice John D. Couriel has been named the next chief justice of the Florida Supreme Court. Couriel will…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":235040,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27023,28,30,29,17867,7289,20949,104837,104835,6951,675,677,5127,104838,104836,104840,104839,189],"class_list":{"0":"post-235039","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-florida","8":"tag-bench","9":"tag-florida","10":"tag-florida-headlines","11":"tag-florida-news","12":"tag-florida-supreme-court","13":"tag-gov-ron-desantis","14":"tag-july","15":"tag-justice-john-d-couriel","16":"tag-justice-john-d-couriel-named-next-chief-justice-of-florida-supreme-court","17":"tag-late-news-update","18":"tag-local-coverage","19":"tag-neighborhood","20":"tag-news-app","21":"tag-newsthe-miami-native","22":"tag-next-chief-justice","23":"tag-regular-justice","24":"tag-two-year-term","25":"tag-wpbf"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235039\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/235040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}