Darren Jackson
County Judge · Lafayette County Court
High confidence· verified July 25, 2026
County Judge · Lafayette County Court
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405 verified requirements and 6 rule deadlines govern practice before Judge Darren Jackson across the judge, division, county, circuit, and statewide layers.
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County seat pending
1998 Bachelor of Science: Biology, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL.
Published by the Lafayette County Court on this judge's own profile page and reproduced verbatim — BenchPath does not write or paraphrase judicial biographies. Read it on the court's site →
Appeals from this courtroom go to the First District Court of Appeal (Tallahassee).
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Jurisdiction per § 35.043, Fla. Stat. (six-district alignment eff. Jan. 1, 2023).
Provenance attributed 2026-08-08 by the BenchPath automated pass: the official page https://thirdcircuitfl.org/judges/judge-darren-k-jackson/ was live-verified to name this judge (sha256 2811b5beb2001b6f…). Public bio composed from the page's own career prose; family/PII text excluded. Bio trimmed to the court's biographical text; referral boilerplate removed.
1 verified rule specific to this judge's division, grouped by requirement category. 405 total requirements apply in this courtroom across all layers — the Full Premium Report assembles the complete stack.
No judge-level deadline on record runs shorter than a statewide deadline with the same trigger. The sentinel compares quoted timing across every published rule scoped to this judge on each visit — a clean result today is re-earned tomorrow.
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How Florida’s appellate courts disposed of the 59 opinions in BenchPath’s corpus (February 2, 2012–October 21, 2025) 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. Showing the 50 most recent; all 59 are counted in the outcome census above.
last checked September 3, 2026
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Michelle Baron, Former Wife vs Richard Baron, Former Husband
First District Court of Appeal · Lafayette County
Disposition (court’s label): Reversed
Timothy Lucier vs Williams Dairy Trucking, Inc., A Foreign For-Profit Corporation, et al.
First District Court of Appeal · Lafayette County
Disposition (court’s label): Dismissed
Donnie L. Pickford vs Taylor County School District
First District Court of Appeal · Taylor County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed in Part/Reversed in Part
Hill v. Suwannee River Water Management District
First District Court of Appeal · Columbia County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Jackson v. Florida Department of Corrections, Dixon
First District Court of Appeal · Lafayette County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Kenneth E. Hammett vs T. Travis Lamb, Warden, Mayo C.I., Mark S. Inch, Secretary of the Department of Corrections
First District Court of Appeal · Lafayette County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
Jeffrey Lance Hill, Sr. v. Suwannee River Water Management District
First District Court of Appeal · Columbia County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Donnie L. Pickford VS Taylor County School District
First District Court of Appeal · Taylor County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Authored Opinion
Abel Turner VS Donna Knight and her heirs, assigns, tenants, agents, employees,
First District Court of Appeal · Taylor County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Authored Opinion
Alexandra L. Young vs State of Florida
First District Court of Appeal · Lafayette County
Disposition (court’s label): Dismissed
Conklin-Peters v. Bank of America, NA
First District Court of Appeal · Lafayette County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Cortijo, Cortijo v. Salameh, Salameh
First District Court of Appeal · Lafayette County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Opinion
Michael Miller VS State of Florida
First District Court of Appeal · Lafayette County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Ronald Stuyvesant Boyd VS State of Florida
First District Court of Appeal · Lafayette County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Authored Opinion
Miller v. State of Florida
First District Court of Appeal · Lafayette County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Rigdon v. Insurance Company
First District Court of Appeal · Lafayette County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Miller v. State of Florida
First District Court of Appeal · Lafayette County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Tracy Barnes v. Lafayette County School Board
First District Court of Appeal · Lafayette County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Helton v. Dixon
First District Court of Appeal · Lafayette County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Young v. State of Florida
First District Court of Appeal · Lafayette County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Bowden v. State of Florida
First District Court of Appeal · Lafayette County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Angelo Mitchell VS State of Florida
First District Court of Appeal · Hamilton County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Ronald Spring vs State of Florida
First District Court of Appeal · Taylor County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
Young v. State of Florida
First District Court of Appeal · Lafayette County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Bass, Organic Growing Solutions, LLC v. Shiver
First District Court of Appeal · Lafayette County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
E.F. v. Department of Children and Families
First District Court of Appeal · Taylor County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Alexandra L. Young vs State of Florida
First District Court of Appeal · Lafayette County
Disposition (court’s label): Dismissed
Donnie L. Pickford vs Taylor County School District
First District Court of Appeal · Taylor County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed in Part/Reversed in Part
Michael Hurley vs Mark S. Inch, Secretary of Florida Department of Corrections
First District Court of Appeal · Lafayette County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
Ned Hanner vs State of Florida
First District Court of Appeal · Lafayette County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
Dale A. Williams, Jr. vs State of Florida
First District Court of Appeal · Lafayette County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
Clifton M. Brooks Sr. vs Department of Corrections
First District Court of Appeal · Lafayette County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
Michael D. Miller vs State of Florida
First District Court of Appeal · Lafayette County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
Richard Baron vs Michelle Baron
First District Court of Appeal · Lafayette County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
B.B., Mother of L.T., Minor Child vs Department of Children and Families
First District Court of Appeal · Lafayette County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
C. J. O., Father of J. L. O., Minor Child vs Department of Children and Families
First District Court of Appeal · Lafayette County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
B and H Miracle, LLC, a Florida etc. et al. vs Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., a national banking etc.
First District Court of Appeal · Lafayette County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed in Part/Reversed in Part
Colon H. Russell vs State of Florida
First District Court of Appeal · Lafayette County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
Hakim Ramatoola vs State of Florida
First District Court of Appeal · Lafayette County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
Willie L. Bowden vs State of Florida
First District Court of Appeal · Lafayette County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
Margaret Conklin-Peters vs Bank of America, N.A.
First District Court of Appeal · Lafayette County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
Bricen Angelo Bowden vs State of Florida
First District Court of Appeal · Lafayette County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
Torbio Alvarado vs State of Florida
First District Court of Appeal · Lafayette County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
Michael Hurley vs State of Florida, et al.
First District Court of Appeal · Lafayette County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
Michele Gaylord, Former Wife vs Chad Gaylord, Former Husband
First District Court of Appeal · Lafayette County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
Launa Tackett Prine vs State of Florida
First District Court of Appeal · Lafayette County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
Raynaldo Quiroga vs State of Florida
First District Court of Appeal · Lafayette County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
JAMES HARMON, III, v. STATE OF FLORIDA
First District Court of Appeal · Lafayette County
Torbio Alverado vs State of Florida
First District Court of Appeal · Lafayette County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
Anthony Cobb vs State of Florida
First District Court of Appeal · Lafayette County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
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