10TH CIRCUIT JNC ANNOUNCES COUNTY AND CIRCUIT COURT JUDICIAL APPLICANTS
The following applicants have applied for consideration to fill the COUNTY COURT vacancy created by the retirement of Judge Griffin.
Jordan A. Wells
Second District Court of Appeal
Career Attorney for the Honorable Robert J. Morris
Nicole Eleanor Orr
Office of the State Attorney 10th Judicial Circuit
Assistant State Attorney Director of Intake
Taylor R. Bowen
Hinshaw & Culbertson, LLP Partner
Joseph Anthony Ravelo
United States Attorney’s Office Assistant United States Attorney
Brenda A. Freeman, State of Florida
Second District Court of Appeal
Career Staff Attorney to the Honorable Anthony K. Black
David Molloy
Guardian Ad Litem Office
Senior Attorney
Norda Nathalie Swaby Boggs
Office of the State Attorney
Prosecutor
Ruth Moracen Knight
Public Defender’s Office of the Tenth Judicial Circuit
Assistant Public Defender
Todd Patrick Scholl
Panella Law Firm
Associate Attorney
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 Masters.
Jordan A. Wells
Second District Court of Appeal
Career Attorney for the Honorable Robert J. Morris
Nicole Eleanor Orr
Office of the State Attorney 10th Judicial Circuit
Assistant State Attorney Director of Intake
Taylor R. Bowen
Hinshaw & Culbertson, LLP
Partner
The Honorable Anne Trefz Gibson
Tenth Judicial Circuit
County Court Judge
Joseph Anthony Ravelo
United States Attorney’s Office
Assistant United States Attorney
Brenda A. Freeman
Second District Court of Appeal
Career Staff Attorney to the Honorable Anthony K. Black
Todd Patrick Scholl
Panella Law Firm
Associate Attorney
The Honorable Kevin Michael Kohl
State of Florida
County Court Judge
Norda Nathalie Swaby Boggs
Office of the State Attorney
Prosecutor
Caymen Alexis Calabro Hargaden
Office of the State Attorney for the Tenth Judicial Circuit
Assistant State Attorney
Ruth Moracen Knight
Public Defender’s Office of the Tenth Judicial Circuit
Assistant Public Defender
Sarah Elizabeth Corbett
State of Florida -Director of Central Staff Sixth District Court of Appeal
*Polk County Court Judge beginning March 2, 2026
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 & Myers in Lakeland, Florida. Interviews will commence at 9 a.m. on March 2, 2026, and will continue throughout the day.
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.
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