James P. Nilon
Senior Judge · Eighth Judicial Circuit Court
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Senior Judge · Eighth Judicial Circuit Court
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69 verified requirements govern practice before Judge James P. Nilon across the judge, division, county, circuit, and statewide layers.
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Senior judge — on assignment as needed
On this assignment since March 30, 2026
Senior judge named on the live circuit8.org senior-judges directory (verified 2026-07-24) but with NO individual profile link — contact details UNVERIFIED. No current assignment in AO 9.03 (v2026-2).
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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).
Official portrait attached 2026-08-03 from the court's own page (https://circuit8.org/courts-judges/senior-judges/), name-on-page verified in raw HTML (no lazyload on this site — census confirmed). Prior no-photo state stemmed from the July bad-bio-link cleanup.
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How Florida’s appellate courts disposed of the 80 opinions in BenchPath’s corpus (April 5, 2006–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. Showing the 50 most recent; all 80 are counted in the outcome census above.
K.S., Mother of R.M., A Minor Child vs Department of Children and Families
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First District Court of Appeal · Alachua County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
Johanna MacMaster, Former Wife vs Sean MacMaster, Former Husband
First District Court of Appeal · Alachua County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
L.E., Mother of D.J., a minor child vs Department of Children and Families
First District Court of Appeal · Alachua County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
A.P., mother of J.F., F.S., M.D. and M.D., Jr., minor children vs Department of Children and Families
First District Court of Appeal · Alachua County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
V.L., Father of Z.L., Minor Child v. Department of Children and Families
First District Court of Appeal · Alachua County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Johanna MacMaster, Former Wife vs Sean MacMaster, Former Husband
First District Court of Appeal · Alachua County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
K.M., Mother of G.M., J.M., A.M., N.M., A.M., and K.M. vs Florida Department of Children and Families
First District Court of Appeal · Alachua County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
R.M. vs Department of Children and Families
First District Court of Appeal · Alachua County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
Kaevion Raqeem Sanders VS State of Florida
First District Court of Appeal · Alachua County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
R.M., Father of R.M., Minor Child vs Department of Children and Families
First District Court of Appeal · Alachua County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
A.P., mother of J.F., F.S., M.D. and M.D., Jr., minor children vs Department of Children and Families
First District Court of Appeal · Alachua County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
Kandi Crosier vs Clayton L. Crosier
First District Court of Appeal · Alachua County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
K.R., Mother of D.B., A Minor Child vs Department of Children and Families
First District Court of Appeal · Alachua County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
Alexis Jones vs Ralston Irons
First District Court of Appeal · Alachua County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
K. D., Father of T.D. and L.D., Minor Children vs Department of Children and Families
First District Court of Appeal · Alachua County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
S.B., Mother of A.M.S., a Minor Child vs Department of Children and Families
First District Court of Appeal · Alachua County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
Dorothea C. Fleming, Wife vs James L. Fleming, Husband et al.
First District Court of Appeal · Alachua County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed in Part/Reversed in Part
Jeremiah Schroder, Former Husband vs Laura Aaron Schroder, Former Wife
First District Court of Appeal · Alachua County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
S.S., Mother of T.D. and L.D., Minor Children vs Department of Children and Families
First District Court of Appeal · Alachua County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
L.F., Mother of A.P., Jr. and A.F.-P., Minor Children vs Department of Children and Families
First District Court of Appeal · Alachua County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
G.O., Father of T.K-O., Minor Child vs Department of Children and Families
First District Court of Appeal · Alachua County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
A.P.,Sr., Father of A.P.,Jr. and A.F.-P., Minor Children vs Department of Children and Families
First District Court of Appeal · Alachua County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
J.D., Father of W.S.D., Minor Child vs Department of Children and Families
First District Court of Appeal · Alachua County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
K.T., Mother of C.T., Minor Child vs Department of Children and Families
First District Court of Appeal · Alachua County
Disposition (court’s label): Dismissed
H.C.B., Mother of J.N.D., Minor Child vs Department of Children and Families
First District Court of Appeal · Alachua County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
Neddra Price-Crowell vs Deidra R. Aaron and Sheree Lugrand
First District Court of Appeal · Alachua County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
Jyrki Pulkkinen, Former Husband vs Karen Elaine Pulkkinen n/k/a Karen Elaine etc.
First District Court of Appeal · Alachua County
Disposition (court’s label): Reversed
A. W., Father of B. W., Minor Child vs Department of Children and Families
First District Court of Appeal · Alachua County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
C. M., Natural Mother of T. M., Minor Child vs Department of Children and Families
First District Court of Appeal · Alachua County
Disposition (court’s label): Non-dispositive
W.S., Father of S.S., Minor Child vs Department of Children and Families
First District Court of Appeal · Alachua County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
C. M., Natural Mother of T. M., Minor Child vs Department of Children and Families
First District Court of Appeal · Alachua County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
Laura Elizabeth Walker, Former Wife vs Kirk Thomas Booth, Former Husband
First District Court of Appeal · Alachua County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
D. M., Mother of J. Z. P., J. D. P. Jr. and J. A. C. etc. vs Department of Children and Families
First District Court of Appeal · Alachua County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
K. J., Mother of K.K.G.J, Minor Child vs Department of Children and Families
First District Court of Appeal · Alachua County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
R.M., Father of C.C., Minor Child vs Department of Children and Families
First District Court of Appeal · Alachua County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
Yetli Patricia Delgado Mejia vs Thomas A. Scarpello, on Behalf of Minor Children T.A.S. and A.J.S.
First District Court of Appeal · Alachua County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
Yetli Patricia Delgado Mejia, Mother vs Thomas Anthony Scarpello, Father
First District Court of Appeal · Alachua County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
K. W. Mother of C. C. W., Minor Child vs Florida Department of Children and Families
First District Court of Appeal · Alachua County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
Maxine Lampert-Sacher, Former Wife vs Mark Sacher, Former Husband
First District Court of Appeal · Alachua County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
State of Florida Department of etc. vs Lisa O'Connor, f/k/a Lisa Zane
First District Court of Appeal · Alachua County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
S.C., Father of S.L.C., E.R.C., K.E.C., et al. vs Department of Children and Families
First District Court of Appeal · Alachua County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
Wayne C. Doty v. State of Florida
Supreme Court of Florida · Bradford County
Jeremiah Schroder, Husband, vs Laura Aaron Schroder, Wife
First District Court of Appeal · Alachua County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
Stephan Milton Showstark vs Estate of Susan Evelyn Showstark
First District Court of Appeal · Alachua County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
M. S. Mother of E. C., T. S., V. S., S. S., J.S. vs Florida Department of Children and Families
First District Court of Appeal · Alachua County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
JAMES WILLIAM FOWLER vs Kristy L. Fowler
First District Court of Appeal · Alachua County
Disposition (court’s label): Dismissed
IN THE INTEREST OF Y.V., A MINOR CHILD vs .
First District Court of Appeal · Alachua County
Disposition (court’s label): Reversed
Steven Tyler Deason vs State of Florida
First District Court of Appeal · Bradford County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
Maxine Lampert-Sacher, Former Wife vs Mark Sacher, Former Husband
First District Court of Appeal · Alachua County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
Robert Lee Leonard, III vs State of Florida
First District Court of Appeal · Alachua County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
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