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Maria Gonzalez
County Judge · Lee County Court
High confidence· verified July 25, 2026
County Judge · Lee County Court
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811 verified requirements and 6 rule deadlines govern practice before Judge Maria Gonzalez across the judge, division, county, circuit, and statewide layers.
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County Judge — Lee County
Lee County Justice Center, 1700 Monroe Street, Fort Myers, FL 33901
Verified against Judge Maria Gonzalez's own court profile page, 2026-07-24.
Division (official profile, verified 2026-07-19): Lee Misdemeanors, Ordinances & Criminal Traffic 16.7% Small Claims 11.1% Civil Traffic Infractions 11.1%
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=gonzalez), 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.
Timing shown here is quoted from the rule text. Compute your actual date against the court's calendar and the rule itself — not legal advice.
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How Florida’s appellate courts disposed of the 23 opinions in BenchPath’s corpus (October 12, 2018–June 23, 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.
RANDALL LEON WRIGHT VS STATE OF FLORIDA
Sixth District Court of Appeal · Lee County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
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CHARLES CUSTODIO VS STATE OF FLORIDA
Sixth District Court of Appeal · Lee County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
WISDEAL TORRES, JR. VS STATE OF FLORIDA
Sixth District Court of Appeal · Lee County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
CHARLES WILLIAM SIKES vs STATE OF FLORIDA
Sixth District Court of Appeal · Lee County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
OCTAVIUS MC ARTHUR PULLEN vs STATE OF FLORIDA
Second District Court of Appeal · Lee County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
FREDRICK EARL CROOKS, III v. STATE OF FLORIDA
Sixth District Court of Appeal · Lee County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
WILLIAM GATES, JR. VS STATE OF FLORIDA
Sixth District Court of Appeal · Lee County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
JOHN FARACA AND JOAN FARACA VS DANIEL DINNEEN AND LILLIAN DINNEEN
Sixth District Court of Appeal · Lee County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
WAYNE MAYNARD TAYLOR VS STATE OF FLORIDA
Sixth District Court of Appeal · Lee County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
ANITA WELLS BATTON vs STATE OF FLORIDA
Sixth District Court of Appeal · Lee County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
REBECCA LOUISE RABER VS STATE OF FLORIDA
Sixth District Court of Appeal · Lee County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Authored Opinion
JAMES ROBINSON vs STATE OF FLORIDA
Sixth District Court of Appeal · Lee County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
WILLIAM GATES, JR. VS STATE OF FLORIDA
Sixth District Court of Appeal · Lee County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
ROBERT MEEKS VS TIMOTHY STRICKLAND AND CYNTHIA STRICKLAND
Sixth District Court of Appeal · Lee County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Authored Opinion
JOSUE JACOB vs STATE OF FLORIDA
Second District Court of Appeal · Lee County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
SEAN O' CONNELL vs GERRY USHER
Second District Court of Appeal · Lee County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
TONY EUGENE JAMES vs STATE OF FLORIDA
Second District Court of Appeal · Lee County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
CRESCENT SHORE CONDOMINIUM ASSOCIATION, INC. vs LANI KAI, L.P.
Second District Court of Appeal · Lee County
Disposition (court’s label): Reversed
PAUL BURNS ANDERSON vs STATE OF FLORIDA
Second District Court of Appeal · Lee County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed in Part/Reversed in Part
SHERMYKAEL JUANIUS JENKINS, SR. vs STATE OF FLORIDA
Second District Court of Appeal · Lee County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
LAWRANCE WALTER WASHKA, I I vs STATE OF FLORIDA
Second District Court of Appeal · Lee County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
SHERMAN LEE MYERS vs STATE OF FLORIDA
Second District Court of Appeal · Lee County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
DEON LAMAR FLETCHER vs STATE OF FLORIDA
Second District Court of Appeal · Lee County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
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