Information On Judicial Candidates Available On Florida Bar’s Website
TALLAHASSEE – The Florida Bar wants you to know more about the judicial candidates who will appear on your ballot in August.
Information on more than 100 county and circuit court candidates in Florida now is available on The Florida Bar’s website, as part of the Bar’s initiative to educate Florida’s voters about judicial elections.
Candidates for contested seats who wanted to participate submitted judicial candidate voluntary self-disclosure statements.
The 10-page statements, developed by the Bar’s Judicial Administration and Evaluation Committee, include information about legal experience and community work as well as short essays on why candidates feel they would be good judges.
Completed statements are available at www.floridabar.org/judicialcandidates.
The Bar’s “The Vote’s in Your Court” web page (www.floridabar.org/thevotesinyourcourt) is a go-to source for information on judicial elections. There, voters will find English and Spanish versions of the “Guide for Florida Voters” plus links to more information, including the Code of Judicial Conduct and biographies of the judges and justices up for merit retention votes. The Bar will add links to a merit retention poll of Bar members, which will be completed in early September.
The “Guide for Florida Voters” is available at supervisor of elections offices throughout the state and through local chapters of the League of Women Voters of Florida. It answers many questions voters might have about judicial elections and is available to civic groups upon request; email [email protected] or call (850) 561-5764.
The Bar also will publish a merit retention brochure for the Florida Supreme Court justices and District Court of Appeal judges up for a retention vote, with biographical information provided by the judges and justices who will be on the ballot.
Election dates this year are Aug. 30 and Nov. 8. All county and circuit judicial races appear on the primary ballot, with runoffs in November. The merit retention vote is in November.
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