County Judge · Walton County Court
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713 verified requirements and 6 rule deadlines govern practice before Judge Kelvin C. Wells across the judge, division, county, circuit, and statewide layers.
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Division County
Walton County Courthouse 571 U.S. Highway 90 East DeFuniak Springs, FL 32433, Judicial Assistant: Tanya Schumann, tanya.schumann@flcourts1.gov, 850-892-8134
Verified against Judge Kelvin C. Wells's own court profile page, 2026-07-24.
Walton County Courthouse 571 U.S. Highway 90 East DeFuniak Springs, FL 32433
Harvested live by BenchPath 2026-07-24 from the circuit's own published record.
Verified 2026-08-02: this circuit publishes NO judge portraits. The 1st's Sanity CMS judge documents carry no image field at all (38 checked via the content API), and the 12th's Judges page serves only a logo, an email-signature graphic and an Adobe button. 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 First District Court of Appeal (Tallahassee).
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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.firstjudicialcircuit.org/legal-professionals/judges/kelvin-c-wells/), 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 — 713 verified requirements still govern this courtroom. The Full Premium Report assembles every one of them, cited.
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How Florida’s appellate courts disposed of the 358 opinions in BenchPath’s corpus (May 5, 2005–August 5, 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 358 are counted in the outcome census above.
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Assan Deandre Rogers vs State of Florida
First District Court of Appeal · Walton County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
Aaron Timothy Green vs State of Florida
First District Court of Appeal · Walton County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
Troy Roberts vs State of Florida
First District Court of Appeal · Walton County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
Pate v. State of Florida
First District Court of Appeal · Walton County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Christopher Ross Crober vs State of Florida
First District Court of Appeal
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
Nishita K. Patel vs Jaimin B. Patel
First District Court of Appeal · Walton County
Disposition (court’s label): Reversed
Jamall J. Matthews vs State of Florida
First District Court of Appeal · Walton County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
Storm Royal Thayer VS State of Florida
First District Court of Appeal · Walton County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Opinion
Jonathan David Capps v. State of Florida
First District Court of Appeal · Walton County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Opinion
Trenton Patrick Hooks vs State of Florida
First District Court of Appeal · Walton County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed in Part/Reversed in Part
Davis v. State of Florida
First District Court of Appeal · Walton County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Dodge, Dodge v. Almeida
First District Court of Appeal · Walton County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Bookertee Hartfield VS State of Florida
First District Court of Appeal · Walton County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Authored Opinion
D'Andre L. Key vs State of Florida
First District Court of Appeal · Walton County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
Ernest D. Suggs v. State of Florida
Supreme Court of Florida · Walton County
Disposition (court’s label): affirmed
Howell v. State of Florida
First District Court of Appeal · Walton County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Willie Clyde Bryant Jr. vs State of Florida
First District Court of Appeal · Walton County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed in Part/Reversed in Part
Mayatte v. State of Florida
First District Court of Appeal · Walton County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Cawthon v. State of Florida
First District Court of Appeal · Walton County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Hooks v. State of Florida
First District Court of Appeal · Walton County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Jerid Day vs Christina B. Day
First District Court of Appeal · Walton County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
Mayatte v. State of Florida
First District Court of Appeal · Walton County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Timothy Lee Farris vs State of Florida
First District Court of Appeal · Walton County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Opinion
Tate v. State of Florida
First District Court of Appeal · Walton County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Brandan A. Mack vs State of Florida
First District Court of Appeal · Walton County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
Bowden v. State of Florida
First District Court of Appeal · Walton County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Opinion
Michael H. Brooks vs Emily H. Brooks
First District Court of Appeal · Walton County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed in Part/Reversed in Part
Inwood Investments, LLC VS U.S. Bank National Association, as Trustee for Structed Asset Securities Corporation Mortgage Loan
First District Court of Appeal · Walton County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Opinion
Dennis Terhaar vs State of Florida
First District Court of Appeal · Walton County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
Craig Martin, Former Husband VS Maribel Martin, Former Wife
First District Court of Appeal · Walton County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Authored Opinion
Barger v. State of Florida
First District Court of Appeal · Walton County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
James Adam Vonderheide VS State of Florida
First District Court of Appeal · Walton County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Powell v. Powell
First District Court of Appeal · Walton County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Larry Jay Bean v. State of Florida
First District Court of Appeal · Walton County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Linda K. Ratliff VS Lori Parish
First District Court of Appeal · Walton County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Brandon Tate vs State of Florida
First District Court of Appeal · Walton County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
Hughes v. State of Florida
First District Court of Appeal · Walton County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Citation
Jason Cody Hughes vs State of Florida
First District Court of Appeal · Walton County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
Harmony Jade Kalina vs State of Florida
First District Court of Appeal · Walton County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
Ramirez v. State of Florida
First District Court of Appeal · Walton County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Lacey v. State of Florida
First District Court of Appeal · Walton County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Ricky L. Mills vs State of Florida
First District Court of Appeal · Walton County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed in Part/Reversed in Part
Akeem Collins VS State of Florida
First District Court of Appeal · Walton County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Castro Mendez v. State of Florida
First District Court of Appeal · Walton County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Shirah v. State of Florida
First District Court of Appeal · Walton County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Angelo Britton vs Megan Hayden (F/K/A Megan Britton)
First District Court of Appeal · Walton County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
McDonald v. State of Florida
First District Court of Appeal · Walton County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Opinion
Paul Burns VS State of Florida
First District Court of Appeal · Walton County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Elder v. State of Florida
First District Court of Appeal · Walton County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Redmon v. State of Florida
First District Court of Appeal · Walton County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
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