{"id":400621,"date":"2026-09-15T17:00:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-15T17:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/400621\/"},"modified":"2026-09-15T17:00:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-15T17:00:09","slug":"governor-desantis-appoints-2-university-of-florida-grads-to-appeals-court-district-in-tallahassee-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/400621\/","title":{"rendered":"Governor DeSantis appoints 2 University of Florida grads to appeals court district in Tallahassee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">GAINESVILLE, Fla. (WCJB) &#8211; Governor Ron DeSantis announced four new appointments to a body that will shape the appeals court district covering Tallahassee. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Two of the appointments to the first district court of appeals judicial nominating commission are University of Florida grads.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Law school grad Jeff Aaron is a founding shareholder of a law firm headquartered in Orlando. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">TRENDING: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wcjb.com\/2026\/09\/15\/alachua-planning-board-passes-12-month-moratorium-data-centers\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Alachua planning board passes 12-month moratorium on data centers<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">UF undergrad alum Jason Hillborn is a deputy state attorney general.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The other appointments are Tallahassee attorneys Lazaro Fields and Benjamin Gibson. <\/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 four new appointments to a body that will shape the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":400622,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[7855,159274,8219,2683,159275,4735,232,234,233,2511],"class_list":["post-400621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tallahassee","tag-appeals","tag-appoints","tag-court","tag-desantis","tag-grad","tag-ncfl","tag-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee-headlines","tag-tallahassee-news","tag-uf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400621","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=400621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400621\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/400622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=400621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=400621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=400621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}