{"id":87824,"date":"2025-12-18T10:27:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T10:27:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/87824\/"},"modified":"2025-12-18T10:27:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T10:27:11","slug":"gov-desantis-appoints-3-judges-in-miami-dade-2-in-tallahassee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/87824\/","title":{"rendered":"Gov. DeSantis appoints 3 Judges in Miami-Dade, 2 in Tallahassee"},"content":{"rendered":"

Gov. Ron DeSantis just filled a handful of bench vacancies, three in Florida\u2019s most populous county and two in the state\u2019s capital.<\/p>\n

In Miami-Dade, DeSantis named County Court Judge Christina Correa and Assistant State Attorney Jose Rohaidy to the 11th Judicial Circuit Court. He also tapped lawyer Jennifer Levin for a judgeship on the Miami-Dade County Court.<\/p>\n

All fill vacancies created by the enactment of SB 2508<\/a>, a measure the Governor signed this year increasing the number of circuit and county court Judges statewide.<\/p>\n

Correa has served on the County Court since 2020, having previously worked as an Assistant State Attorney. She holds a Juris Doctor from Florida International University.<\/p>\n

Rohaidy, part of State Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle\u2019s team since 2019, previously worked as an associate at Zumpano Patricios<\/a> and earned his Juris Doctor from St. Thomas University.<\/p>\n

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Levin, a partner at Stone Glass & Connolly<\/a> and past associate at Martinez Morales Law<\/a>, earned her Juris Doctor from FIU, too.<\/p>\n

Two Tallahassee lawyers \u2014 both of whom have worked in the Legislature \u2014 are also donning robes, courtesy of DeSantis\u2019 appointment pen.<\/p>\n

The first is Jeremiah Hawkes, who will take a seat on the 2nd Judicial Circuit Court bench, which covers Franklin, Gadsden, Jefferson, Leon, Liberty and Wakulla counties. Hawkes has worked as a senior counsel for Bass Sox & Mercer since 2022. He previously worked as the General Counsel for the Senate and earned his Juris Doctor from Florida State University (FSU).<\/p>\n

Carlos Rey, another FSU College of Law alum who has worked as the Senate\u2019s General Counsel since 2023 and a senior attorney since 2020, is joining the Leon County Court. He previously served as an Assistant General Counsel for the Florida Department of State.<\/p>\n

Hawkes\u2019 seat opened up due to SB 2508. Rey\u2019s was made available by the recent elevation<\/a> of Judge Jason Jones.<\/p>\n

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Correa is from Coral Gables, while Rohaidy and Levin are from Miami, according to a press note from the Governor\u2019s Office. Hawkes and Rey both live in Tallahassee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gov. Ron DeSantis just filled a handful of bench vacancies, three in Florida\u2019s most populous county and two…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":87825,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[47777,47778,47779,47780,47781,47782,9269,412,47783,232,234,233],"class_list":["post-87824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tallahassee","tag-carlos-rey","tag-christina-correa","tag-jason-jones","tag-jennifer-levin","tag-jeremiah-hawkins","tag-jose-rohaidy","tag-katherine-fernandez-rundle","tag-ron-desantis","tag-sb-2508","tag-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee-headlines","tag-tallahassee-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87824","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=87824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87824\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}