David V. Ward
Circuit Judge · Tenth Judicial Circuit Court
High confidence· verified August 3, 2026
Circuit Judge · Tenth Judicial Circuit Court
What applies in this courtroom
317 verified requirements and 6 rule deadlines govern practice before Judge David V. Ward across the judge, division, county, circuit, and statewide layers.
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Highlands Felony Sec 6
Highlands Felony Sec 6.
Verified 2026-08-03: the 10th's own judges page publishes portrait galleries for 10 officers; this judge is not among them. The missing photo is a court fact, not a harvest gap.
Captured verbatim from the court's own published pages and orders during circuit verification. Chambers practices change without notice — confirm anything time-critical with the judicial assistant. Procedural information only; not legal advice.
Appeals from this courtroom go to the Sixth District Court of Appeal (Lakeland).
● LiveThat court's published bench (11): Carrie Ann Wozniak, Dan Traver, Jared E. Smith, John K. Stargel, Joshua A. Mize, Joshua E. Pratt, Keith F. White, Mary Alice Nardella, Paetra T. Brownlee, Rachel B. Kamoutsas, Roger K. Gannam
Jurisdiction per § 35.043, Fla. Stat. (six-district alignment eff. Jan. 1, 2023).
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This tab lists judge-and-division rules only, and this judge's division publishes its practice at the county, circuit, and statewide layers instead — 317 verified requirements still govern this courtroom. The Full Premium Report assembles every one of them, cited.
See all 317 in the Full Premium Report →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.
No judge-scoped deadlines on this tab. Deadlines are extracted only when the source rule text states them — we never infer or calculate dates the rule does not explicitly contain. 6 rule deadlines apply in this courtroom across all layers — assembled with citations in the Full Premium Report.
Timing shown here is quoted from the rule text. Compute your actual date against the court's calendar and the rule itself — not legal advice.
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How Florida’s appellate courts disposed of the 17 opinions in BenchPath’s corpus (January 29, 2021–June 16, 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.
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O. P., A. P., and E. P. v. DEPARTMENT OF CHILDREN AND FAMILIES
Sixth District Court of Appeal · Highlands County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
A. R. v. DEPARTMENT OF CHILDREN AND FAMILIES AND STATEWIDE GUARDIAN AD LITEM
Sixth District Court of Appeal · Highlands County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Opinion
ERRIC LEROY PRESSLEY v. STATE OF FLORIDA
Sixth District Court of Appeal · Highlands County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
JENNIFER SANT ANGELO HUGHES AND CHRISTOPHER SANT ANGELO VS CARLA MARIE SANT ANGELO
Sixth District Court of Appeal · Highlands County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Authored Opinion
EARL BUTLER vs LAW OFFICES OF ROBIN STEVENSON
Second District Court of Appeal · Highlands County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
DALE L. GILLIS vs JACKSON SHORES TOWN HOMES ASSOCIATION, INC.
Second District Court of Appeal · Highlands County
Disposition (court’s label): Reversed
J. R. Y. vs DEPT. OF CHILDREN & FAMILIES
Second District Court of Appeal · Highlands County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
EARL BUTLER vs OFFICE OF CRIMINAL CONFLICT AND REGIONAL COUNSEL
Second District Court of Appeal · Highlands County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
DAVID PARSONS AND MARLA PARSONS vs PATRICIA CULP
Second District Court of Appeal · Highlands County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed in Part/Reversed in Part
ANNEMARIE CORNINE vs KEVIN CORNINE
Second District Court of Appeal · Highlands County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
VIVIAN E. CASTRO vs SUN 'N LAKE OF SEBRING IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT
Second District Court of Appeal · Highlands County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed in Part/Reversed in Part
STEPHEN F. CAMPBELL A/K/A STEPHEN CAMPBELL, ET AL vs WELLS FARGO BANK N. A.
Second District Court of Appeal · Highlands County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
COUNTRY WALK OF LAKE PLACID HOMEOWNER'S ASSOCIATION, INC. vs RONALD G. RADER, ET AL.
Second District Court of Appeal · Highlands County
Disposition (court’s label): Dismissed
JAVIER ZAMARANO-VALDEZ v. STATE OF FLORIDA
Sixth District Court of Appeal · Highlands County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Opinion
CHARLES IVEY v. STATE OF FLORIDA
Sixth District Court of Appeal · Highlands County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
LINDA POURGHAFARI vs KAZEM POURGHAFARI AND ALISON B. COPLEY, P.A.
Second District Court of Appeal · Writ of Certiorari to the Circuit Court for Highlands County
Disposition (court’s label): Dismissed
LACE MELITTA HEFLIN v. STATE OF FLORIDA
Sixth District Court of Appeal · Highlands County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Opinion
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