{"id":475441,"date":"2026-02-18T07:59:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T07:59:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/475441\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T07:59:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T07:59:11","slug":"10th-circuit-jnc-announces-county-and-circuit-court-judicial-applicants-the-florida-bar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/475441\/","title":{"rendered":"10th Circuit JNC announces county and circuit court judicial applicants \u2013 The Florida Bar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                10th Circuit JNC announces county and circuit court judicial applicants<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-554723 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/10th-Circuit-logo-150x150.png\" alt=\"10th Circuit logo\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\"  \/>The following applicants have applied for consideration to fill the county court vacancy created by the retirement of Judge Robert Griffin:<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: left;\">Jordan A. Wells<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: left;\">Second District Court of Appeal<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: left;\">Career Attorney for the Honorable Robert J. Morris<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: left;\">Nicole Eleanor Orr<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: left;\">Office of the State Attorney 10th Judicial Circuit<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: left;\">Assistant State Attorney Director of Intake<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: left;\">Taylor R. Bowen<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: left;\">Hinshaw &amp; Culbertson, LLP Partner<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: left;\">Joseph Anthony Ravelo<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: left;\">United States Attorney\u2019s Office Assistant United States Attorney<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: left;\">Brenda A. Freeman<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: left;\">Second District Court of Appeal<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: left;\">Career Staff Attorney to the Honorable Anthony K. Black<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: left;\">David Molloy<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: left;\">Guardian Ad Litem Office<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: left;\">Senior Attorney<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: left;\">Norda Nathalie Swaby Boggs<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: left;\">Office of the State Attorney<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: left;\">Prosecutor<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: left;\">Ruth Moracen Knight<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: left;\">Public Defender\u2019s Office of the Tenth Judicial Circuit<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: left;\">Assistant Public Defender<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: left;\">Todd Patrick Scholl<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: left;\">Panella Law Firm<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: left;\">Associate Attorney<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: left;\">The following applicants have applied for consideration to fill the circuit court vacancies created by the enactment of Senate Bill 2508 and the retirement of Judge Ellen Masters:<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: left;\">Jordan A. Wells<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: left;\">Second District Court of Appeal<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: left;\">Career Attorney for the Honorable Robert J. Morris<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: left;\">Nicole Eleanor Orr<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: left;\">Office of the State Attorney 10th Judicial Circuit<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: left;\">Assistant State Attorney Director of Intake<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: left;\">Taylor R. Bowen<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: left;\">Hinshaw &amp; Culbertson, LLP<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: left;\">Partner<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: left;\">Judge Anne Trefz Gibson<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: left;\">Tenth Judicial Circuit<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: left;\">County Court Judge<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: left;\">Joseph Anthony Ravelo<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: left;\">United States Attorney\u2019s Office<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: left;\">Assistant United States Attorney<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: left;\">Brenda A. Freeman<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: left;\">Second District Court of Appeal<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: left;\">Career Staff Attorney to the Honorable Anthony K. Black<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: left;\">Todd Patrick Scholl<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: left;\">Panella Law Firm<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: left;\">Associate Attorney<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: left;\">Judge Kevin Michael Kohl<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: left;\">State of Florida<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: left;\">County Court Judge<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: left;\">Norda Nathalie Swaby Boggs<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: left;\">Office of the State Attorney<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: left;\">Prosecutor<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: left;\">Caymen Alexis Calabro Hargaden<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: left;\">Office of the State Attorney for the Tenth Judicial Circuit<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: left;\">Assistant State Attorney<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: left;\">Ruth Moracen Knight<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: left;\">Public Defender\u2019s Office of the Tenth Judicial Circuit<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: left;\">Assistant Public Defender<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: left;\">Sarah Elizabeth Corbett<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: left;\">State of Florida -Director of Central Staff Sixth District Court of Appeal<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: left;\">*Polk County Court Judge beginning March 2, 2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: left;\">The Tenth Judicial Circuit Judicial Nominating Commission will conduct the interviews of the above referenced applicants on Monday, March 2, 2026, at the offices of Peterson &amp; Myers in Lakeland, Florida. Interviews will commence at 9 a.m. on March 2, 2026, and will continue throughout the day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: left;\">Commission Members are Julie Landrigan Ball (Chair), Walter E. Engle, III (Vice-Chair), Lydia Zbrzeznj, Krista Mahalak, Nicholas T. Zbrzeznj, Robert B. Peddy, Jr., Kelvin Ready, Tosha Cohen and Mattie Hardin Tondreault.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"10th Circuit JNC announces county and circuit court judicial applicants The following applicants have applied for consideration to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":475442,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":{"0":"post-475441","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-united-states-of-america","12":"tag-unitedstates","13":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","14":"tag-us","15":"tag-usa"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=475441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475441\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/475442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=475441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=475441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=475441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}