Circuit Judge · First Judicial Circuit Court
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713 verified requirements and 6 rule deadlines govern practice before Judge Lacey Powell Clark across the judge, division, county, circuit, and statewide layers.
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Division 001
Verified against Judge Lacey Powell Clark's own court profile page, 2026-07-24.
Okaloosa County Courthouse Annex Extension 1940 Lewis Turner Boulevard, Suite 3-415 Fort Walton Beach, FL 32547
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/lacey-powell-clark/), confirmed to name them before extraction. The court publishes no biography paragraph for this judge.
2 verified rules specific to this judge's division, grouped by requirement category. 713 total requirements apply in this courtroom across all layers — the Full Premium Report assembles the complete stack.
No judge-level deadline on record runs shorter than a statewide deadline with the same trigger. The sentinel compares quoted timing across every published rule scoped to this judge on each visit — a clean result today is re-earned tomorrow.
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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How Florida’s appellate courts disposed of the 85 opinions in BenchPath’s corpus (October 17, 2019–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 85 are counted in the outcome census above.
last checked September 3, 2026
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Jeffrey G. Hutchinson v. State of Florida & Jeffrey G. Hutchinson v. Secretary, Department of Corrections
Supreme Court of Florida · Okaloosa County
Disposition (court’s label): affirmed
Kishwonner Williams vs State of Florida
First District Court of Appeal · Escambia County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
Damon A. Tanner vs State of Florida
First District Court of Appeal · Escambia County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
Francisco Jose Baca vs State of Florida
First District Court of Appeal · Escambia County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
Edward J. Zakrzewski, II v. State of Florida
Supreme Court of Florida · Okaloosa County
Disposition (court’s label): affirmed
Courtland T. Howze vs State of Florida
First District Court of Appeal · Escambia County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
Eugene G. Meier vs State of Florida
First District Court of Appeal · Escambia County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
Jennifer Michelle Thomas vs State of Florida
First District Court of Appeal · Escambia County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
Augustus Kelley Simmons vs State of Florida
First District Court of Appeal · Escambia County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
Johnnie L. Lyons, Jr. vs State of Florida
First District Court of Appeal · Escambia County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
Thomas Home Corporation, a Florida Corporation vs Grande Oaks Farm-1st Addition Homeowners Association, Inc.
First District Court of Appeal · Escambia County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
Therall Arthur Williams vs State of Florida
First District Court of Appeal · Escambia County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
Adrian Jermaine Brooks vs State of Florida
First District Court of Appeal · Escambia County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
Freeman Quyva Lindsey vs State of Florida
First District Court of Appeal · Escambia County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
Sorey v. State of Florida
First District Court of Appeal · Okaloosa County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Zell v. World Omni Financial Corp., Southeast Toyota Financial
First District Court of Appeal · Okaloosa County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Michael Beasley VS State of Florida
First District Court of Appeal · Escambia County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Authored Opinion
T.T.M.R., Mother of G.A.R., Minor Child v. Department of Children and Families
First District Court of Appeal · Okaloosa County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
M.G., Father of K.D.G. and T.G., Minor Children v. Department of Children and Families
First District Court of Appeal · Okaloosa County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Opinion
F. L. B. v. State of Florida
First District Court of Appeal · Okaloosa County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Opinion
C., C., et al v. Department of Children and Families
First District Court of Appeal · Okaloosa County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Lauren Newhouse vs Pensacola Research Consultants, Inc.
First District Court of Appeal · Escambia County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
P.A.R., et al v. Department of Children and Families
First District Court of Appeal · Okaloosa County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Strickland v. Strickland
First District Court of Appeal · Escambia County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Authored Opinion
Scott Gilbert Grey Key vs State of Florida
First District Court of Appeal · Escambia County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
Ivyuan Terikese Beasley vs State of Florida
First District Court of Appeal · Escambia County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
Baker v. State of Florida
First District Court of Appeal · Okaloosa County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
P.B., Natural Father of J.C.T., Minor Child vs Florida Department of Children and Families; and Guardian ad Litem for J.C.T.
First District Court of Appeal
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
Hunt v. State of Florida
First District Court of Appeal · Okaloosa County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
D.L., mother of J.L. and J.L., minor children v. Department of Children and Families
First District Court of Appeal · Okaloosa County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Opinion
The Paces Foundation, Inc. and Century Park Apartments, LP vs Town of Century, Florida
First District Court of Appeal · Escambia County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
Gregory Shawn Files vs Amanda Deborah Hayes
First District Court of Appeal · Escambia County
Disposition (court’s label): Reversed
Rosario v. Rosario
First District Court of Appeal · Okaloosa County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Olin M. Lewis vs State of Florida
First District Court of Appeal · Escambia County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed in Part/Reversed in Part
M.M.Z., Mother of N.E.R., S.M.R., P.A.R, Jr., V.M.R., A.E.R., Minor Children v. Department of Children and Families
First District Court of Appeal · Okaloosa County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Adriana Patricia Fajardo VS Rachel Ann Deluca
First District Court of Appeal · Escambia County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
David T. Beans VS Amy S. Beans
First District Court of Appeal · Escambia County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Authored Opinion
Kandler v. Kandler
First District Court of Appeal · Okaloosa County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
T.B., the Father of R.B., G.B., and L.B., Minor Children vs Department of Children and Families
First District Court of Appeal · Santa Rosa County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
R.R., Jr., Father of G.A.R., Minor Child v. Department of Children and Families
First District Court of Appeal · Okaloosa County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Opinion
Williams v. Williams
First District Court of Appeal · Okaloosa County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Michael Jerome Gant Jr vs State of Florida
First District Court of Appeal · Escambia County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
Canham v. Canham
First District Court of Appeal · Escambia County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
N.T.P.G., etc. v. Department of Children and Families
First District Court of Appeal · Okaloosa County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Opinion
Derek Martin Griffin VS Angela Mary Griffin (n/k/a Angela Mary Groves)
First District Court of Appeal · Okaloosa County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Opinion
Karen Lindsey VS Timothy King
First District Court of Appeal · Santa Rosa County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Citation
Strickland v. Strickland
First District Court of Appeal · Escambia County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Authored Opinion
Kuertz v. Kuertz
First District Court of Appeal · Okaloosa County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Roderico Lavell Jones vs State of Florida
First District Court of Appeal · Escambia County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
Markquise Deshawn Wallace vs State of Florida
First District Court of Appeal · Escambia County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed in Part/Reversed in Part
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