THE CAPTAIN REPORTS:
YOUR NEXT 2 CIRCUIT COURT & COUNTY COURT JUDGES:
The next additions to the Eleventh Judicial Circuit bench will come from the lists below.
Last week, the Eleventh Judicial Circuit Judicial Nominating Commission (JNC) interviewed applicants for two newly created Circuit Court seats and two newly created County Court seats.
Following those interviews, the JNC submitted 12 nominees for each court to Governor Ron DeSantis. The Governor now has 60 days to select the four judges.
CIRCUIT COURT NOMINEES:
Notably, 10 of the 12 nominees are currently serving as County Court judges. The two nominees who are not sitting judges are marked with an asterisk.
Miesha Darrough
Christian Dunham*
Elisabeth Espinosa
Alicia Garcia Priovolos
Christopher Green
Chiaka Ihekwaba
Andrew McGinley*
Jorge Perez Santiago
Stephanie Silver
Eleane Sosa-Bruzon
Michelle Urbistondo
COUNTY COURT NOMINEES:
Destiny Goede Alvarez** (private practice)
Yaneth Baez (Assistant State Attorney)
Natalia Costea (Office of Gen Counsel 11th Jud. Circ., former AAG)
Christian Dunham*
Kimberly Hillery (Department of Homeland Security)
Yvette Lavelle (private practice)
Andrew McGinley*
Michelle Roth (private practice, former ASA)
Jeffrey Pierce (Assistant United States Attorney)
Patricia Salman (CABA Pro Bono Legal Services)
Alexander Shear (Assistant Public Defender)
*DUAL NOMINATIONS
Two nominees managed to get themselves nominated for both Circuit Court and County Court — no small feat.
Christian Dunham currently serves as an Assistant Federal Public Defender. He began his legal career as an Assistant Public Defender in state court, where he spent six years. Dunham has been a member of the Bar for 27 years, handling both state and federal criminal defense matters.
Andrew McGinley has been a member of The Florida Bar for seven years and currently serves as General Counsel for the Florida Department of Children and Families. Prior to relocating to Florida, he began his legal career in Missouri nine years ago, practicing family law before serving as an Assistant Attorney General in Illinois and later holding several additional legal positions.
BACKGROUND ON Destiny Goede Alvarez:
We previously reported on Destiny Goede Alvarez, who has been a member of The Florida Bar for just over five years, the minimum required to qualify for judicial appointment.
Alvarez earned two degrees from the University of Florida, where she served as President of Florida Blue Key and was later inducted into its Hall of Fame. She is also a member of the Federalist Society.
Her professional experience includes:
Serving as a judicial intern for U.S. Magistrate Judge Amanda Arnold Sansone
Working for one year in the DeSantis Administration at the Florida Department of Transportation
Practicing for two years as an associate at GrayRobinson
Currently serving as a partner at Goede, DeBoest & Cross (the Goede is John Goede)
WHAT HAPPENS NEXT:
Governor DeSantis now has 60 days to select two Circuit Court judges and two County Court judges from the nominees submitted by the JNC.
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