Phillip A. Pena
Circuit Judge · Eighth Judicial Circuit Court
High confidence· verified August 3, 2026
Circuit Judge · Eighth Judicial Circuit Court
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400 verified requirements and 6 rule deadlines govern practice before Judge Phillip A. Pena across the judge, division, county, circuit, and statewide layers.
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Family/Juvenile — Alachua UFC, delinquency, dependency, adoptions, truancy, RPO; Div VIII Veterans Court
On this assignment since March 30, 2026
PROFILE (live circuit8.org, verified 2026-07-24; 4/4 spot-checked profiles matched live): Assignment per AO 9.03 (v2026-2, eff. Courthouse: Alachua County Family and Civil Justice Center. Office Room 305 (office room, NOT a courtroom — the 8th publishes no permanent courtroom numbers; AO 9.05 directs a weekly Alachua courtroom calendar). Judicial assistant: Kelsey Wable (wablekc@circuit8.org). Phone (352) 548-3775. Fax NOT PUBLISHED.
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).
● LiveThat court's published bench (13): Joseph Lewis, Jr., L. Clayton Roberts, Lance E. Neff, Lori S. Rowe, M. Kemmerly Thomas, Rachel E. Nordby, Raymond F. Treadwell, Robert E. Long, Jr., Ross L. Bilbrey, Stephanie W. Ray, Susan L. Kelsey, Thomas D. Winokur, Timothy D. Osterhaus
Jurisdiction per § 35.043, Fla. Stat. (six-district alignment eff. Jan. 1, 2023).
30-day recheck scheduled with the source monitor. FAMILY DETAIL REMOVED 2026-07-25: a court-published biography sentence naming family members had been captured into notes. BenchPath publishes official professional information only and scripts/pii-scan.mjs enforces that in CI. The professional record around it is unchanged.
8 verified rules specific to this judge's division, grouped by requirement category. 400 total requirements apply in this courtroom across all layers — the Full Premium Report assembles the complete stack.
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How Florida’s appellate courts disposed of the 158 opinions in BenchPath’s corpus (November 10, 2014–June 10, 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 158 are counted in the outcome census above.
Eric S. Cox vs State of Florida
last checked September 3, 2026
last checked September 3, 2026
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First District Court of Appeal · Union County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
Arkeisha Geraldine Bell vs State of Florida
First District Court of Appeal · Alachua County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
Joshua Ryan Beauvois vs State of Florida
First District Court of Appeal · Alachua County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
Roslyn Mark Bryant Jr vs State of Florida
First District Court of Appeal · Alachua County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
Alexander M Albritton vs State of Florida
First District Court of Appeal · Alachua County
Disposition (court’s label): Reversed
Rogelio Maldonado vs State of Florida
First District Court of Appeal · Union County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
Michael Porter vs State of Florida
First District Court of Appeal · Gilchrist County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
Brianna Centiera Gainey vs State of Florida
First District Court of Appeal · Alachua County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
Reginald A. Walker vs State of Florida
First District Court of Appeal · Alachua County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
Jackie Lamar Bush 2 vs State of Florida
First District Court of Appeal · Alachua County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
James Levette Durr vs State of Florida
First District Court of Appeal · Alachua County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
Juan Jose Hernandez vs State of Florida
First District Court of Appeal · Union County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
Alexander Gordon Cardenas vs State of Florida
First District Court of Appeal · Alachua County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
Demetrius Hank Davis vs State of Florida
First District Court of Appeal · Alachua County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
Blackburn v. State of Florida
First District Court of Appeal · Baker County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Robert B. Bilus vs State of Florida
First District Court of Appeal · Alachua County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed in Part/Reversed in Part
Dontavious Antwaun Clark vs State of Florida
First District Court of Appeal · Alachua County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
Obadiah Savoy Dillard v. The State of Florida
First District Court of Appeal · Alachua County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Opinion
Stephen Michael Dicks vs State of Florida
First District Court of Appeal · Union County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
Reeves, Carlton, et al v. State of Florida, Hicks
First District Court of Appeal · Alachua County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
M.A.T., Jr., a Child v. State of Florida
First District Court of Appeal · Alachua County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Florence v. State of Florida
First District Court of Appeal · Alachua County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Donnie Hugh Crawford vs State of Florida
First District Court of Appeal · Union County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
Keshard Devon Davis vs State of Florida
First District Court of Appeal · Alachua County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
Hudson v. State of Florida
First District Court of Appeal · Alachua County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Westley Pierre Freeman v. State of Florida
First District Court of Appeal · Alachua County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Opinion
State of Florida vs Antonio Dimitri Bryant
First District Court of Appeal · Alachua County
Disposition (court’s label): Reversed
Franklin R Gwyn, Jr. VS State of Florida
First District Court of Appeal · Baker County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Citation
Hutton v. State of Florida
First District Court of Appeal · Alachua County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Gary Johnson III VS State of Florida
First District Court of Appeal · Alachua County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
James Jeffry Beard VS State of Florida
First District Court of Appeal · Alachua County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Hall v. State of Florida
First District Court of Appeal · Alachua County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Jones v. State of Florida
First District Court of Appeal · Alachua County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Mathis v. State of Florida
First District Court of Appeal · Alachua County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Griner v. State of Florida
First District Court of Appeal · Baker County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Erika Rivers Carter vs State of Florida
First District Court of Appeal · Alachua County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
Gunn v. State of Florida
First District Court of Appeal · Alachua County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Jerkins v. State of Florida
First District Court of Appeal · Alachua County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Jason Dubose vs State of Florida
First District Court of Appeal · Alachua County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
Carnegie v. North Florida Evaluation and Treatment Center
First District Court of Appeal · Alachua County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Rogelio Maldonado vs State of Florida
First District Court of Appeal · Union County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
Connor Alexander McLean vs State of Florida
First District Court of Appeal · Baker County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
Vincent Morrell Williams, III vs State of Florida
First District Court of Appeal · Alachua County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
Jones v. State of Florida
First District Court of Appeal · Alachua County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Corpeio Devay Brock vs State of Florida
First District Court of Appeal · Alachua County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
Larry Jean Brown vs State of Florida
First District Court of Appeal · Alachua County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
Alfrain B. Burgess vs State of Florida
First District Court of Appeal · Alachua County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
Lisa Deanna Hodge Bradley vs State of Florida
First District Court of Appeal · Gilchrist County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
Fraser v. State of Florida
First District Court of Appeal · Baker County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Authored Opinion
Wilcox v. State of Florida
First District Court of Appeal · Baker County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
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