Diana M. Tennis
Circuit Judge · Ninth Judicial Circuit Court
High confidence· verified July 25, 2026
Circuit Judge · Ninth Judicial Circuit Court
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Domestic Relations — Division 3/38 (Orange)
Judicial Assignment: 2023-2026 Administrative Circuit Judge, Family Court; 2022 Associate Administrative Circuit Judge, Domestic Relations; 2018-2026 Circuit Judge, Orange County, Domestic Relations; 2021 Associate Administrative Judge, Osceola County Domestic Courts; 2018 Circuit Judge, Orange County, Probate/Guardianships/Mental Health/Trusts/Civil Commitments; 2015-2017 Circuit Judge, Osceola County Unified Family Court — Education: Juris Doctor: University of Florida with Honors; Bachelor of Arts: University of Florida — Professional Activities: Member, The Florida Bar; Member, Orange County Bar Association; Member, Central Florida Association for Women Lawyers - Leadership Team 2013-2014; Member, Florida Association for Women Lawyers; Member, Central Florida Family Law Inn - President 2021-2023; Member, Hispanic Bar Association
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Published forms & procedures: PDF Format; Word Format; Attorney-Represented Uncontested Dissolutions Checklist; Instructions for Final Judgments of Dissolution of Marriage via Electronic Submission; Equitable Distribution Spreadsheet Forms - Color; Equitable Distribution Spreadsheet Forms - B&W; Equitable Distribution Spreadsheet Instructions; Instructions; Word Format; PDF Format; Word Format; PDF Format; AO 2014-19 - Establishing Ninth Judicial Circuit Court Domestic Court Guidelines; Uniform Order Setting In-Person Pretrial Conference and for Non-Jury Trial; Guidelines and Procedures
Verified against Judge Diana M. Tennis's own court profile page, 2026-07-24.
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Appeals from this courtroom go to the Sixth District Court of Appeal (Lakeland).
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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://ninthcircuit.org/judges/circuit/diana-m-tennis), confirmed to name them before extraction. Biography captured verbatim from the court's page. 15 linked form/procedure document(s) fetched and hashed.
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How Florida’s appellate courts disposed of the 54 opinions in BenchPath’s corpus (August 1, 2016–April 15, 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. Showing the 50 most recent; all 54 are counted in the outcome census above.
last checked September 3, 2026
last checked September 3, 2026
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BRADLEY T. PACE vs SHARESE M. PACE
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Orange County
Disposition (court’s label): Reversed
JONATHAN HERNANDEZ VELEZ vs GLORITAZ LAFONTAINE
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Orange County
Disposition (court’s label): Reversed
BRADLEY PACE vs SHARESE M. PACE
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Orange County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed in Part/Reversed in Part
HEIDI ZIEGLER vs HARTMUT ZIEGLER
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Orange County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed in Part/Reversed in Part
YDENER PIERRE vs KATHLEEN ST. MARC PIERRE
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Orange County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
SYED IMRAN ALI VS SALSABEEL A. KHAN
Sixth District Court of Appeal · Orange County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Authored Opinion
PETER HAEBERLI vs AYLA B. HAEBERLI
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Orange County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
HARDAT RAI vs KEMKUMARE J. RAI
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Orange County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
KENNETH RAYMOND MEYERS vs LAURA MARIE MEYERS
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Orange County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
BRADLEY T. PACE vs SHARESE M. PACE
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Orange County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed in Part/Reversed in Part
ABDEL OSCAR DELGADO vs ARNEI MOREJON
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Orange County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
STEVEN JOSEPH MILLER vs CAROLINE MILLER
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Orange County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed in Part/Reversed in Part
K. T. v. M. D. a/k/a P. C.
Sixth District Court of Appeal · Writ of Certiorari to the Circuit Court for Orange County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Opinion
ARNOLG GENE GRAHAM vs ALEXANDRA JEAN GRAHAM
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Orange County
Disposition (court’s label): Reversed
BRADLEY T. PACE vs SHARESE M. PACE
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Orange County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed in Part/Reversed in Part
FRANCES ANN JOHNSON-FORREST VS JERRY RADFORD FORREST
Sixth District Court of Appeal · Orange County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
L. R. C. F. VS M. P.
Sixth District Court of Appeal · Orange County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
BRITTANY NICOLE DIEHL AND LOUIS ROMAN JOSEPH OROSCO vs MIGUEL A. RODRIGUEZ
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Orange County
Disposition (court’s label): Dismissed
DIEGO MAURICIO SERNA vs CAROLINA BOTERO
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Orange County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
JAMES A. ZALESKI vs CHRISTINE A. BUCCILLI
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Orange County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
AYLA HAEBERLI vs PETER HAEBERLI
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Orange County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
XIAO WANG MINAHAN vs ROBERT LYONS MINAHAN
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Orange County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
AYLA B. HAEBERLI vs PETER HAEBERLI
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Orange County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
LOUIS ROMAN OROSCO VS MIGUEL A. RODRIGUEZ AND BRITTANY NICOLE DIEHL
Sixth District Court of Appeal · Orange County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Authored Opinion
C. C. VS STATE OF FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE O/B/O J.G. AND J.C., JR.
Sixth District Court of Appeal · Writ of Certiorari to the Circuit Court for Orange County
Disposition (court’s label): Petition - Per Curiam Opinion
STEVEN J. MILLER vs CAROLINE E. MILLER
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Orange County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
CHEYENNE HESS vs SUNDAY LYNN HESS
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Orange County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
JULIETTE NIEVES vs CHRISTOPHER GUTHRIE
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Orange County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
RAJEEV GUPTA vs SHAILY GUPTA
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Orange County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed in Part/Reversed in Part
KEVIN CARTER vs DEBORAH HART F/K/A DEBORAH CARTER
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Osceola County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed in Part/Reversed in Part
PRIYANKA BAKHRU VS HANOVER BAKHRU
Sixth District Court of Appeal · Orange County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
JENNIFER EDKIN vs JAKOB A. EDKIN
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Orange County
Disposition (court’s label): Reversed
ILYAS ZINNUROV v. VICTORIA SHELEGINA
Sixth District Court of Appeal · Orange County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Authored Opinion
K. T. v. M. D. a/k/a P. C.
Sixth District Court of Appeal · Writ of Certiorari to the Circuit Court for Orange County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Opinion
ARNOLG GENE GRAHAM vs ALEXANDRA JEAN GRAHAM AND JOSHUA DENNY
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Orange County
Disposition (court’s label): Reversed
CARL GREGORY TOLLEY vs THERESA ROBIN MCMENAMY F/K/A THERESA M. TOLLEY
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Orange County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
VERNECE HUTCHINS VS ESTATE OF DERRICK W. HUTCHINS, NEW LIFE MINISTRIES OF ORLANDO INC., DENNIS HUTCHINS, TANGELA THOMAS, ABRAHAM ENESSI, RICHARD JONES, RACHEL BOND, MALON MOYE MOORE, KEITH GRAYSON, GREGORY ATKINSON, KATRINA SPRINGER HUTCHINS, ET AL
Sixth District Court of Appeal · Orange County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Authored Opinion
WILLIAM N. VEITH VS KELLY LAWRENCE VEITH
Sixth District Court of Appeal · Orange County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
GRACE FLEMING vs LESLIE FLEMING
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Orange County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
JEFFREY CHARLES vs SHANNON WILLIAMS
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Orange County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
A. K. VS J. B.
Sixth District Court of Appeal · Orange County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
LESLIE CAMP vs SETH REECE
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Orange County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
ZACHARY C. TUOHEY vs DULISA GARCIA
Sixth District Court of Appeal · Orange County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
JESSICA L. SMITH vs SCOTT D. BROWN
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Orange County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
MELISSA MARTINEZ vs BRANDON LEBRON
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Orange County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
TERRY HERZOG GRIFFITH vs STEVEN L. GRIFFITH
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Osceola County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
DARIO HERNANDEZ vs CLAUDIA CARDENAS
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Orange County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
Carter v. Hart
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Osceola County
MICHAEL BASS vs KELLY BASS
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Osceola County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
Holloway v. Holloway
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Osceola County
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