Kyle Cohen
Circuit Judge · Twentieth Judicial Circuit Court
High confidence· verified July 25, 2026
Circuit Judge · Twentieth Judicial Circuit Court
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Circuit Judge — Lee County
Judge Kyle S. Cohen was appointed as a Circuit Court Judge to the 20th Judicial Circuit on May 28, 2020. Judge Cohen began his service on July 9, 2020 and is currently assigned to Unified Family Court in Collier County.
Prior to taking the bench, Judge Cohen served as an Assistant United States Attorney in the civil division for the Middle District of Florida in the Fort Myers Office. As the sole civil division AUSA in the Fort Myers United States Attorney's Office, Judge Cohen was responsible for all aspects of any defensive and affirmative federal civil litigation affecting the interests of the United States within a six-county radius. On the defensive side, Judge Cohen handled many different types of federal civil litigation such as Federal Tort Claims Act (“FTCA”) cases, medical malpractice, employment discrimination, and bankruptcy.
Prior to joining the United States Attorney's Office, Judge Cohen was an associate at Howrey in Washington D.C. where he was a member of the Global Litigation, Commercial Trial, and Insurance Recovery practice groups. He attended law school at Georgetown University law Center and is a proud graduate of the University of Florida for undergrad.
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Lee County Justice Center, 1700 Monroe Street, Fort Myers, FL 33901
Published forms & procedures: Judge Kyle Cohen Civil Division Procedures; Zoom Link; Final Discharge Check List for Probate; Civil – Order of Referral to the Magistrate
Verified against Judge Kyle Cohen's own court profile page, 2026-07-24.
Division (official profile, verified 2026-07-19): Lee General Civil L 16.7% Guardianship M(4) 16.7% Probate P(4) 8.33%
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Appeals from this courtroom go to the Sixth District Court of Appeal (Lakeland).
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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.ca.cjis20.org/About-The-Court/jud_profile.aspx?judge=cohen), confirmed to name them before extraction. Biography captured verbatim from the court's page. 4 linked form/procedure document(s) fetched and hashed.
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How Florida’s appellate courts disposed of the 11 opinions in BenchPath’s corpus (October 8, 2021–June 16, 2023) 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.
JENNIFER YOCOM vs BRIAN YOCOM
Sixth District Court of Appeal · Collier County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
last checked September 4, 2026
last checked September 3, 2026
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SCOTT RONALD BUFFINGTON VS KATHY P. BUFFINGTON
Sixth District Court of Appeal · Collier County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
ANTHONY REISER vs ALISSA REISER
Sixth District Court of Appeal · Collier County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
ADAM KLEIN vs ALAYNA MARIE MANVILLE
Sixth District Court of Appeal · Collier County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
ADAM KLEIN vs ALAYNA MARIE MANVILLE
Sixth District Court of Appeal · Collier County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
CHRISTINE M. ROGERS vs MARK M. ROGERS
Second District Court of Appeal · Collier County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed in Part/Reversed in Part
STEFFANY ESTEVEZ A/K/A STEFFANY DELOS ANGELES ESTEVEZ vs JORGE LUIS ESTEVEZ
Second District Court of Appeal · Collier County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
JURGITA CHINGAREV vs PAMELA HORWITZ
Second District Court of Appeal · Collier County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
ROBIN GIBSON ALLEY vs THOMAS CHRISTOPHER ALLEY
Second District Court of Appeal · Collier County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
S. E. vs J. L. E.
Second District Court of Appeal · Collier County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
LAURENCE J. SMITH vs BENJAMIN A. MUSGRAVE AND LYNN MUSGRAVE
Second District Court of Appeal · Collier County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
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