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J. David Langford
Senior Judge · Tenth Judicial Circuit Court
High confidence· verified August 3, 2026
Senior Judge · Tenth Judicial Circuit Court
What applies in this courtroom
317 verified requirements and 6 rule deadlines govern practice before Judge J. David Langford across the judge, division, county, circuit, and statewide layers.
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No current assignment on record.
Senior judge, 10th Judicial Circuit. The senior gallery lists no current section assignment.
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).
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.
No verified ruling summary yet. BenchPath generates ruling summaries from opinion and docket corpora (CourtListener where covered) and publishes them only after human review — fabricated judicial analytics are exactly what this platform refuses to ship.
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How Florida’s appellate courts disposed of the 35 opinions in BenchPath’s corpus (January 28, 2004–November 18, 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.
RACHEL JONES VS COUNTRY CLUB ESTATES OF POLK COUNTY HOMEOWNERS ASSOCIATION, INC.
Sixth District Court of Appeal · Polk County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
No rule-level sources registered yet — judge-level provenance is listed in the Overview tab.
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No assignments on record.
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WINFIELD SCOTT BUTTON, JR. v. STATE OF FLORIDA
Sixth District Court of Appeal · Highlands County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
O' NEIL FAUGHN vs MICHAEL MORRISON AND LORRAINE MORRISON
Second District Court of Appeal · Polk County
Disposition (court’s label): Dismissed
City of Avon Park v. State
Second District Court of Appeal · Highlands County
Philip Morris USA, Inc. v. Hallgren
Second District Court of Appeal · Highlands County
Mehl v. Tucker, Secretary, Depart. of Corrections
Second District Court of Appeal · Writ of Certiorari to the Circuit Court for Polk County
Stang v. State
Second District Court of Appeal · Writ of Certiorari to the Circuit Court for Hardee County
Stang v. State
Second District Court of Appeal · Writ of Certiorari to the Circuit Court for Hardee County
Board of County Commissioners of Highlands County v. Colby
Second District Court of Appeal · Highlands County
Watts v. State
Second District Court of Appeal · Polk County
J.S. v. Depart. of Childredn & Family Services
Second District Court of Appeal · Polk County
Allstate Insurance Co. v. Wiley
Second District Court of Appeal · Highlands County
Truelove v. Blount
Second District Court of Appeal · Highlands County
Pressly v. Tadlock
Second District Court of Appeal · Polk County
Holland Electronics LLC. v. Vital Systems Electronics, Inc.
Second District Court of Appeal · Highlands County
Glover v. State
Second District Court of Appeal · Highlands County
Rhoden v. State
Second District Court of Appeal · Highlands County
Sullivan v. Galske
Second District Court of Appeal · Highlands County
Faskowitz v. Department of Legal Affairs
Second District Court of Appeal · Highlands County
Handley v. State
Second District Court of Appeal · Highlands County
Lee v. State
Second District Court of Appeal · Highlands County
Gaines v. State
Second District Court of Appeal · Highlands County
McJunkin v. McJunkin
Second District Court of Appeal · Highlands County
Donny L. Crook v. State Of Florida
Supreme Court of Florida · Highlands County
King v. State
Second District Court of Appeal · Highlands County
Robinson v. State
Second District Court of Appeal · Highlands County
Banasik v. State
Second District Court of Appeal · Highlands County
Foskey v. State
Second District Court of Appeal · Highlands County
Anderson v. State
Second District Court of Appeal · Highlands County
Goad v. State
Second District Court of Appeal · Highlands County
Mitchell v. State
Second District Court of Appeal · Highlands County
Sanchez v. State
Second District Court of Appeal · Highlands County
Hutchins v. State
Second District Court of Appeal · Highlands County
Mellay v. State
Second District Court of Appeal · Highlands County
L.N. v. Department of Children & Family Services
Second District Court of Appeal · Highlands County
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