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A. Christian Miller
Circuit Judge · Seventh Judicial Circuit Court
High confidence· verified July 25, 2026
Circuit Judge · Seventh Judicial Circuit Court
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378 verified requirements and 6 rule deadlines govern practice before Judge A. Christian Miller across the judge, division, county, circuit, and statewide layers.
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Div 42 Felony — Volusia County
Circuit Judge A. Christian Miller was elected to the bench in 2018 and served as a Volusia County Court Judge for seven years before his appointment as a Circuit Judge in 2025. He earned his undergraduate degree from the University of Tennessee and his Juris Doctor from Stetson University College of Law. He was admitted to The Florida Bar in 2006 and served as an Assistant State Attorney. Before that, he worked in private practice, and while in law school, he interned with the Public Defender’s Office of the Sixth Judicial Circuit. He currently hears criminal cases at the S. James Foxman Judicial Center in Daytona Beach.
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S. James Foxman Judicial Center, 251 N. Ridgewood Ave, Rm. 284, Daytona Beach, FL 32114
Published forms & procedures: DIVISION 42 PROCEDURES AND GUIDELINES; Plea Form; Plea Form in Spanish; Violation of Probation Plea Form; The Florida Bar Recommended Best Practices for Remote Court Proceedings
Verified against Judge A. Christian Miller's own court profile page, 2026-07-24.
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Appeals from this courtroom go to the Fifth District Court of Appeal (Daytona Beach).
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Jurisdiction per § 35.043, Fla. Stat. (six-district alignment eff. Jan. 1, 2023).
Profile upgraded 2026-07-24: bio_url now points to this judge's own page (https://circuit7.org/judges/judge-a-christian-miller/), confirmed to name them before extraction. Biography captured verbatim from the court's page. 5 linked form/procedure document(s) fetched and hashed.
2 verified rules specific to this judge's division, grouped by requirement category. 378 total requirements apply in this courtroom across all layers — the Full Premium Report assembles the complete stack.
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How Florida’s appellate courts disposed of the 16 opinions in BenchPath’s corpus (August 27, 2021–May 5, 2026) that name this judge as the lower-tribunal judge — the courts’ own disposition labels, counted verbatim. This is a census of the appellate record we hold, not a complete case history, an affirmance rate, or a performance rating.
Florida appellate and Supreme Court opinions naming this judge as the lower-tribunal judge, taken verbatim from each court’s official slip opinion (source-hashed). Descriptive record, not a rating.
Michele K. Blakely v. State of Florida
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Volusia County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
last checked September 3, 2026
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Dexter Lamar Hill v. State of Florida
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Volusia County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
James P. White v. State of Florida
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Volusia County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Alonza Henry v. State of Florida
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Volusia County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
James P. White v. State of Florida
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Volusia County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Alonza Henry v. State of Florida
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Volusia County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
David Lee Davis v. State of Florida
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Volusia County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Henry L. Peterson v. State of Florida
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Volusia County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
PAUL COLANTONIO, EVA CHRISTINE KELLY, AND CHRISTOPHER OSTEEN vs SARAH I. MOOG
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Volusia County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed in Part/Reversed in Part
WILLIAM GALLO vs LAUREL OAKS APARTMENTS, LLC
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Volusia County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
Christopher Dane Morgan v. State of Florida
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Volusia County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
D'Markious A. Noel v. State of Florida
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Volusia County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Akeem L. Washington v. State of Florida
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Volusia County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Curtis L. Duhart v. State of Florida
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Volusia County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Robert E. Matthews v. State of Florida
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Volusia County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Jason Aaron Mather v. State of Florida
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Volusia County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
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