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Melissa G. Olin
Chief Judge · Third Judicial Circuit Court
High confidence· verified July 25, 2026
Chief Judge · Third Judicial Circuit Court
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405 verified requirements and 6 rule deadlines govern practice before Judge Melissa G. Olin across the judge, division, county, circuit, and statewide layers.
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Chief Judge, Third Judicial Circuit
Olin Admitted to the Florida Bar, 2009 Chief Judge 2023 - Present Circuit Judge: January 2019 – Present
Published by the Third Judicial Circuit Court on this judge's own profile page and reproduced verbatim — BenchPath does not write or paraphrase judicial biographies. Read it on the court's site →
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).
Provenance attributed 2026-08-08: official page https://thirdcircuitfl.org/judges/judge-melissa-g-olin/ live-verified to name this judge (sha256 4a9e6ab7832b3fbc…). No clean biographical prose was extractable from the page (it served procedures/contact/referral text); roster facts render, narrative withheld.
1 verified rule specific to this judge's division, grouped by requirement category. 405 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 195 opinions in BenchPath’s corpus (October 7, 2019–July 17, 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 195 are counted in the outcome census above.
last checked September 3, 2026
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Robert Craft v. State of Florida
Supreme Court of Florida · Columbia County
Disposition (court’s label): affirmed
Kendrick Bernard James vs State of Florida
First District Court of Appeal · Madison County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
John Wesley Smith vs State of Florida
First District Court of Appeal · Madison County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed in Part/Reversed in Part
Anthony Floyd Wainwright v. State of Florida
Supreme Court of Florida · Hamilton County
Disposition (court’s label): affirmed
David Allen Love vs State of Florida
First District Court of Appeal · Madison County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed in Part/Reversed in Part
Robert C Thompson vs State of Florida
First District Court of Appeal · Madison County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
Warren Justin Hall vs State of Florida
First District Court of Appeal · Madison County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
Barrington Elliot Morais vs Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections
First District Court of Appeal · Madison County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
Pippin v. State of Florida
First District Court of Appeal · Madison County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Grimace v. State of Florida
First District Court of Appeal · Columbia County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Williams v. State of Florida
First District Court of Appeal · Columbia County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Cupp v. State of Florida
First District Court of Appeal · Columbia County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Daniels v. State of Florida
First District Court of Appeal · Hamilton County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Scott D. Hall, Rebekah Bashford Kervin, Dr. Jessica Brawner Webb, Johnny D. Webb, Amy Webb, Daniel Griffin, Angela Shirley, Chris May, et al. vs Rayne Cooks, et al.
First District Court of Appeal · Madison County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
Copeland v. State of Florida
First District Court of Appeal · Columbia County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Morris McCray vs State of Florida
First District Court of Appeal · Madison County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
Webb v. State of Florida
First District Court of Appeal · Madison County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Huggins v. State of Florida
First District Court of Appeal · Hamilton County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Brian A. Hallman VS State of Florida
First District Court of Appeal · Madison County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Opinion
Whitfield v. State of Florida
First District Court of Appeal · Madison County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Barrett Register vs State of Florida
First District Court of Appeal · Hamilton County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
Gianino v. State of Florida
First District Court of Appeal · Madison County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Opinion
Kimble v. State of Florida
First District Court of Appeal · Columbia County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Opinion
Eli Butler Jr vs State of Florida
First District Court of Appeal · Madison County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
Prince v. State of Florida
First District Court of Appeal · Columbia County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Kirk P. Dixon vs State of Florida
First District Court of Appeal · Madison County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
Leland v. State of Florida
First District Court of Appeal · Madison County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Ben Lamont Denson vs State of Florida
First District Court of Appeal · Madison County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
Allen v. State of Florida
First District Court of Appeal · Columbia County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Opinion
Warren J. Hall VS State of Florida
First District Court of Appeal · Madison County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Bowers v. State of Florida
First District Court of Appeal · Columbia County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Burnett v. State of Florida
First District Court of Appeal · Columbia County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Candace Cullen VS State of Florida
First District Court of Appeal · Madison County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Starling v. State of Florida
First District Court of Appeal · Hamilton County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Pula v. Dixon
First District Court of Appeal · Madison County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Opinion
Dortly v. State of Florida
First District Court of Appeal · Columbia County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Wojtowicz v. State of Florida
First District Court of Appeal · Columbia County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Benz v. State of Florida
First District Court of Appeal · Columbia County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Jenetta Edwards VS Sheriff David Harper, in his Capacity as Sheriff of Madison County
First District Court of Appeal · Madison County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Verasso v. State of Florida
First District Court of Appeal · Madison County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Dicks v. State of Florida
First District Court of Appeal · Columbia County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Dean v. State of Florida
First District Court of Appeal · Hamilton County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Young v. State of Florida
First District Court of Appeal · Hamilton County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Dortly v. State of Florida
First District Court of Appeal · Columbia County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
John Wesley Smith vs State of Florida
First District Court of Appeal · Madison County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed in Part/Reversed in Part
Burnham v. State of Florida
First District Court of Appeal · Columbia County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Williams v. State of Florida
First District Court of Appeal · Madison County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Wojtowicz v. State of Florida
First District Court of Appeal · Columbia County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Rebecca P. Lee vs David Harper, Sheriff, Madison County, Florida; and Sidney Pridgeon
First District Court of Appeal · Madison County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
Serrano v. State of Florida
First District Court of Appeal · Madison County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
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