Jamie R. Grosshans

Justice Jamie Rutland Grosshans was appointed as the 91st Justice of the Florida Supreme Court on September 14, 2020 by Governor Ron DeSantis. Previously she was appointed to the Fifth District Court of Appeal by Governor Rick Scott. Prior to her appointment to the appellate court, she served as an Orange County Court Judge in the Ninth Judicial Circuit of Florida where she presided over criminal and civil matters.

Justice Grosshans was raised in Brookhaven, Mississippi and graduated from the University of Mississippi School of Law. During law school, she clerked for the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice in Washington, D.C., and the United States Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Mississippi. Following admittance to the Florida Bar, she served as an Assistant State Attorney for the Ninth Circuit of Florida in both the misdemeanor and felony divisions where she tried numerous criminal jury trials.

Justice Grosshans later entered private practice and founded her own law firm where she focused primarily on family law and criminal defense matters. She also served as an adjunct professor at Valencia College, frequently volunteered as a guardian ad litem, and offered her time in numerous pro bono cases.