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Judith K. Rubenstein
Senior Judge · Twentieth Judicial Circuit Court
High confidence· verified July 25, 2026
Senior Judge · Twentieth Judicial Circuit Court
What applies in this courtroom
811 verified requirements and 6 rule deadlines govern practice before Judge Judith K. Rubenstein across the judge, division, county, circuit, and statewide layers.
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Possibly the same senior judge listed on the 11th Circuit roster — dedup review queued — Lee County
Lee County Justice Center, 1700 Monroe Street, Fort Myers, FL 33901
Verified against Judge Judith K. Rubenstein's own court profile page, 2026-07-24.
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).
Profile upgraded 2026-07-24: bio_url now points to this judge's own page (https://www.ca.cjis20.org/About-The-Court/jud_profile.aspx?judge=rubenstein), confirmed to name them before extraction. The court publishes no biography paragraph for this judge.
This tab lists judge-and-division rules only, and this judge's division publishes its practice at the county, circuit, and statewide layers instead — 811 verified requirements still govern this courtroom. The Full Premium Report assembles every one of them, cited.
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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.
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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.
RAMON FERNANDEZ, vs MAYRA B. FERNANDEZ,
Third District Court of Appeal
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
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Possibly the same senior judge listed on the 11th Circuit roster — dedup review queued — Lee Countycurrent
date not recorded — present
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