YOUR NEXT THREE MIAMI-DADE COUNTY JUDGES .....

THE CAPTAIN REPORTS:

SO, YOU WANT TO BE A JUDGE .......

The JNC for the 11th Judicial Circuit recently interviewed a number of candidates for one new Circuit Court seat and two new County Court seats created by the enactment of SB 2508 during the 2025 legislative session.

The JNC has nominated the following individuals for appointment to the Circuit Court seat. The Governor has 60 days to name our next Circuit Court Judge: (all six are current County Court Judges, meaning the Governor will get a two-fer).

Alicia Garcia Priovolos

Cristina Rivera Correa

Elisabeth Espinosa

Jorge Perez Santiago

Rita Gonzalez Cuervo

Stephanie Silver

The following individuals have been nominated for the two County Court seats. The Governor will name two of the 12 as our next County Court Judges:

Alexander Shear (APD)

Jose Rohaidy (ASA)

Andrew McGinley (Fla. Dept of Children & Families)

Kimberly C. Hillery (Dept. of Homeland Security)

Christian Dunham (Federal APD)

Michelle Roth (pvt. practice, former ASA)

Gabrielle Raemy Charest-Turken (AUSA)

Patricia Salman (CABA Staff Attorney)

Jeffrey Pierce (ICE - Dept. of Homeland Security)

Yaneth Baez (ASA)

Jennifer Trautman Levin (pvt. practice)

Zahara Markoe (pvt. practice, former ADA) 

TAKING BETS ON THE THREE WINNERS (name your three in the Comments) .....

IN KEEPING WITH TRADITION .....

Governor DeSantis has been in office for slightly more than 6.5 years. In that time, he has made

326 judicial appointments.

Today alone, he named one new Circuit Court Judge in the 7th Judicial Circuit and two new County Court Judges in St. Johns and Monroe County. Two of the three new judges come directly from the State Attorney’s Office, while the third is a former ASA.

Of the 326 judges he has appointed to date, 208 had ASA/AUSA/AAG on their resume (64%), and 103 of those 208 were current prosecutors at the time of their appointment (32%).  Contrast that with the fact that only three of the 326 were APDs (two state and one federal) at the time of their appointment (1%), and only 16 of the 326 had APD on their resume (5%). 

Yes, elections do have consequences. (Good luck with your interviews in Tallahassee, Alexander Shear and Christian Dunham, - you have about a 5% chance of getting the call).

CAPTAIN OUT .......
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