Heidi Davis
Circuit Judge · Fifth Judicial Circuit Court
High confidence· verified July 25, 2026
Circuit Judge · Fifth Judicial Circuit Court
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873 verified requirements and 6 rule deadlines govern practice before Judge Heidi Davis across the judge, division, county, circuit, and statewide layers.
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Circuit Judge — Lake County
From Judge Heidi Davis's own profile page on the circuit's county judiciary index, verified 2026-07-25.
Verified 2026-08-03: the 5th's own county judiciary pages render name-only rosters with no biography prose. A court fact, not a harvest gap.
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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).
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4 verified rules specific to this judge's division, grouped by requirement category. 873 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 57 opinions in BenchPath’s corpus (December 12, 2011–July 17, 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 57 are counted in the outcome census above.
JENNIFER ANN BARKER vs STATE OF FLORIDA
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Lake County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
last checked September 3, 2026
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BRANDON JORDAN STEVENS vs STATE OF FLORIDA
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Lake County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
JUAN RINCON, JR. vs STATE OF FLORIDA
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Lake County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
CHARLES RAMONE HULL vs STATE OF FLORIDA
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Lake County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
Nancy Golly v. Accelerated Inventory Management, LLC
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Lake County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
MATTHEW ANTHONY SPLUNGE VS STATE OF FLORIDA
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Lake County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
MATTHEW DONNELLY vs STATE OF FLORIDA
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Lake County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
MIGUEL A. PEREZ vs STATE OF FLORIDA
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Lake County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
JASON ALLEN CALHOUN VS STATE OF FLORIDA
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Lake County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Opinion
ERNEST PRESY vs STATE OF FLORIDA
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Lake County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
LARRY BURROWS VS STATE OF FLORIDA
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Lake County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
DONIELLE JERMAINE SIMPSON vs STATE OF FLORIDA
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Lake County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
CHRISTOPHER SHANE PERRY vs STATE OF FLORIDA
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Lake County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
JENNIFER ANN BARKER vs STATE OF FLORIDA
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Lake County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
ANTONIO GRAHAM vs STATE OF FLORIDA
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Lake County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
JACOB M. PERRITT vs STATE OF FLORIDA
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Lake County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
RENEE T. ROUNDTREE vs STATE OF FLORIDA
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Lake County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
SEAN SIMS vs STATE OF FLORIDA
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Lake County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
JASON ALLEN CALHOUN VS STATE OF FLORIDA
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Lake County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Opinion
KEDIR FELIX vs NATIONAL COLLEGIATE STUDENT LOAN TRUST 2006-4
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Lake County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
RO'S TAVERN, LLC, A FLORIDA LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY, D/B/A THE PINEAPPLE PLACE, JAMES V. KOEPKE, VS DAVID A. HURLEY, AS TRUSTEE OF THE DAVID A. HURLEY FAMILY TRUST U/A/D MARCH 11, 1997, AND
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Lake County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
JOHN EDWARD NAILS vs STATE OF FLORIDA
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Lake County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
JENNIFER ANN BARKER vs STATE OF FLORIDA
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Lake County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
ANGEL M. MALDONADO-MELENDEZ vs STATE OF FLORIDA
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Lake County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
DONALD OTIS WILLIAMS vs STATE OF FLORIDA
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Certiorari Review of Order from the Circuit Court for Lake County
Disposition (court’s label): Non-dispositive
STEVEN JOSEPH KOTARSKI VS STATE OF FLORIDA
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Lake County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
MIGUEL A. PEREZ vs STATE OF FLORIDA
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Lake County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
DONALD OTIS WILLIAMS vs STATE OF FLORIDA
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Lake County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
KENNETH ROBINSON vs STATE OF FLORIDA
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Lake County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
DONALD OTIS WILLIAMS VS STATE OF FLORIDA
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Lake County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
CHRISTOPHER SHANE PERRY vs STATE OF FLORIDA
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Lake County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
BRANDON JORDON STEVENS vs STATE OF FLORIDA
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Lake County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
DAVID JOSEPH SHEETS vs STATE OF FLORIDA
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Lake County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
JOSHUA RUBEN HERRERA VS STATE OF FLORIDA
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Lake County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
CHARLES GIVENS vs STATE OF FLORIDA
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Lake County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
GURPREET MICHAEL SINGH vs STATE OF FLORIDA
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Lake County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
JASON ALLEN CALHOUN vs STATE OF FLORIDA
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Lake County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
KENNETH M. ROBINSON vs STATE OF FLORIDA
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Lake County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
ROMAN CORY PRUSH vs STATE OF FLORIDA
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Lake County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
KENNETH BANKS vs U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION NOT IN ITS INDIVIDUAL CAPACITY BUT SOLELY AS TRUSTEE FOR THE RMAC TRUST, SERIES 2016-CTT, SHAKIMA THOMAS-BANKS A/K/A SHAKIMA THOMAS BANKS, ET AL
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Lake County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
JEMEL L. HAMILTON vs STATE OF FLORIDA
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Lake County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
JENNIFER BRANAM AND JAMES BRANAM vs BRANAMJAMES CONSTRUCTION, LLC., ART ZIMMET, STEVEN MACH AND MICHAEL OSBORNE
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Lake County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
TIMOTHY KOSTER vs STATE OF FLORIDA
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Lake County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
Donald Otis Williams v. State of Florida
Supreme Court of Florida · Lake County
Disposition (court’s label): affirmed
CHARLES R. HULL vs STATE OF FLORIDA
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Lake County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
CECIL CLIFFORD GARRETT, III vs STATE OF FLORIDA
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Lake County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
CHARLES LAMONT CASEY vs STATE OF FLORIDA
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Lake County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
CURTIS L. HOYLE vs FRANCINA HOYLE
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Lake County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
JAMA JOHNSON vs STATE OF FLORIDA
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Lake County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
MORGAN G. SALBER vs DIANA MARIE FRYE
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Certiorari Review of Order from the Circuit Court for Lake County
Disposition (court’s label): Denied
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