{"id":350869,"date":"2026-07-24T07:45:28","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T07:45:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/350869\/"},"modified":"2026-07-24T07:45:28","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T07:45:28","slug":"governor-ron-desantis-announces-two-judicial-appointments-in-north-central-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/350869\/","title":{"rendered":"Governor Ron DeSantis announces two judicial appointments in North Central Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">GAINESVILLE, Fla. (WCJB) &#8211; Governor Ron DeSantis announced the appointments of two judicial seats in North Central Florida on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The Governor appointed Lorelie Brannan to the Eighth Judicial Circuit Court, covering most of the North Central Florida region. Brannan replaced Judge Robert Groeb, wo retired in April.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The Governor also appointed Lua Lepianka as judge on the Alachua County Court. She filled the vacancy left behind by Judge Jonathan Ramsey, who was appointed to circuit court. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wcjb.com\/newsletter\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Click here<\/a> to subscribe to our newsletter.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WCJB. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"GAINESVILLE, Fla. (WCJB) &#8211; Governor Ron DeSantis announced the appointments of two judicial seats in North Central Florida&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":350870,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[143534,49914,28,30,29,6281,31394,9699,7896,45347,143535,412],"class_list":["post-350869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-8th-judicial-circuit-court","tag-appointments","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-governor","tag-judges","tag-judicial","tag-new","tag-north-central-florida","tag-replace","tag-ron-desantis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350869","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=350869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350869\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/350870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=350869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=350869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=350869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}