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Sara J. Carter
County Judge · Columbia County Court
High confidence· verified July 25, 2026
County Judge · Columbia County Court
What applies in this courtroom
405 verified requirements and 6 rule deadlines govern practice before Judge Sara J. Carter across the judge, division, county, circuit, and statewide layers.
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County seat pending
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).
Provenance attributed 2026-08-08: official page https://thirdcircuitfl.org/judges/judge-sara-j-carter/ live-verified to name this judge (sha256 5a5d2ba690b27ac6…). 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.
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.
No verified ruling summary yet. BenchPath generates ruling summaries from opinion and docket corpora (CourtListener where covered) and publishes them only after human review — fabricated judicial analytics are exactly what this platform refuses to ship.
Use the live case-law search below to see what exists for this judge today.
How Florida’s appellate courts disposed of the 11 opinions in BenchPath’s corpus (March 18, 2022–July 15, 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.
Bing v. Meadows Commercial Properties, Inc.
First District Court of Appeal · Columbia County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
last checked September 3, 2026
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Haley v. Foundation Professionals of Florida, Inc.
First District Court of Appeal · Columbia County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
State of Florida vs Tad Leonard Anderson
First District Court of Appeal · Columbia County
Disposition (court’s label): Dismissed
Oneal v. State of Florida
First District Court of Appeal · Columbia County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Dixon v. Bailey
First District Court of Appeal · Columbia County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Opinion
Frederick-Clay: Norris v. State of Florida, et al.
First District Court of Appeal · Columbia County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Opinion
R.C. aka R.P.B., Father of J.P., A.P., A.P., Minor Children v. Department of Children and Families
First District Court of Appeal · Columbia County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - PC Dismissed
Troy Albers vs Anna Harding
First District Court of Appeal · Columbia County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
Moultrie v. unknown correctional officer employed at Columbia Correction Institution
First District Court of Appeal · Columbia County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Bailey v. Dixon
First District Court of Appeal · Columbia County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Heidi Holdridge and Richard Holdridge v.Rebecca Anderson
First District Court of Appeal · Columbia County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Opinion
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Case-law search
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