Circuit Judge · Fourth Judicial Circuit Court
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1,748 verified requirements and 8 rule deadlines govern practice before Judge Tatiana Salvador across the judge, division, county, circuit, and statewide layers.
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Circuit Criminal — Division CR-E (Duval)
Tatiana R. Salvador Tatiana Radi Salvador was appointed to the Circuit Court by Governor Rick Scott on November 30, 2012, and took office on January 8, 2013. Judge Salvador has served as a Circuit Court Judge in the Felony and Civil Divisions. Additionally, she was the sole judge presiding over all postconviction cases in 2018 and was the Administrative Judge for the Felony Division in 2023. Since 2018, Judge Salvador has been a faculty member of Florida’s Judicial College, annually teaching Evidence to all new state judges and magistrates. Judge Salvador began the practice of law in 1994 serving as an Assistant State Attorney in the Fourth Judicial Circuit, prosecuting all types of crimes from misdemeanors to murders in Clay, Duval, and Nassau counties. Thereafter in 2001, she entered private practice with the law firm of Rogers Towers, P.A. Her legal practice primarily focused on civil litigation, including commercial, banking, probate, estate and family law. In 2004, she became a shareholder in the firm and remained at the firm until she ascended to the bench in 2013. In addition to her legal and judicial practice, Judge Salvador has been involved in numerous community organizations and in various leadership capacities, including as current member and past president of the Chester Bedell American Inn of Court; current Chair of the Board of Trustees for The Bolles School; current national board member and past chair of Duke University’s Hispanic/Latino Alumni Association; past vice-chair of the City of Jacksonville Ethics Commission; founding member and past president of the Hispanic Bar Association of N.E. Fla.; past board member of Jacksonville Area Legal Aid; past president and board member of OneJax, Inc.; past president and board member of Leadership Jacksonville, and graduate of the Class of 2004. Judge Salvador was born in Providence, Rhode Island and moved to Jacksonville, Florida when she was 7 years old. Judge Salvador spent her childhood in Jacksonville and graduated from The Bolles School. She attended Duke University in Durham, North Carolina and received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science. While at Duke, she studied abroad in Brussels, Belgium and focused her studies on world affairs. She then attended law school at the University of Florida, College of Law, where she received her Juris Doctor degree.
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How Florida’s appellate courts disposed of the 123 opinions in BenchPath’s corpus (December 12, 2016–July 21, 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.
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Arben Bregu v. State of Florida
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Fifth District Court of Appeal · Duval County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
DANIEL WILLIAMS, JR. VS STATE OF FLORIDA
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Duval County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Sammy Neal v. State of Florida
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Duval County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Ju'Waun Newkirk v. State of Florida
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Duval County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Robert Laster v. State of Florida
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Duval County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Edgar V. Escobar v. State of Florida
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Duval County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Artavious Cotton v. State of Florida
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Duval County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Citation
ELISHA THOMAS, JR. VS STATE OF FLORIDA
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Duval County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Leavitis Golphin, III v. State of Florida
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Duval County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Jeremiah Butler v. State of Florida
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Duval County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
EMERY D. HANDY, JR. VS STATE OF FLORIDA
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Duval County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Citation
JOSH WRIGHT VS STATE OF FLORIDA
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Duval County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Opinion
SAMUEL M. SMILEY VS STATE OF FLORIDA
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Duval County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Reginald Joseph Cotton v. State of Florida
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Duval County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Bernard Johnson v. State of Florida
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Duval County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Thomas T. Brown v. State of Florida
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Duval County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
DAVID SHANE HALBROOK VS STATE OF FLORIDA
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Duval County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Reynaldo R. Cato v. State of Florida
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Duval County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Alfred Woods vs State of Florida
First District Court of Appeal · Duval County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
Zakariya Daud Clarke v. State of Florida
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Duval County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
ANTHONY LEE RUISE VS STATE OF FLORIDA
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Duval County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
CHRISTOPHER NATHANIEL BROWN VS STATE OF FLORIDA
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Duval County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
CARLOS DEANGELO OWENS VS STATE OF FLORIDA
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Duval County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Robert V. Anderson v. State of Florida
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Duval County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Daniel Williams, Jr. v. State of Florida
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Duval County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Jamael M. Tyson v. State of Florida
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Duval County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Rashard A. Evans v. State of Florida
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Duval County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
PAUL THOMAS KARTSONIS VS STATE OF FLORIDA
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Duval County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Marcus D. Ebron v. State of Florida
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Duval County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Citation
Karl Bartley v. State of Florida
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Duval County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Trevorisse Thomas v. State of Florida
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Duval County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Zakariya Daud Clarke v. State of Florida
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Duval County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
ANTHONY W. VAUGHAN VS STATE OF FLORIDA
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Duval County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Citation
Arben Bregu v. State of Florida
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Duval County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
ALEJANDRO ANTONIO PEREZ VS STATE OF FLORIDA
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Duval County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Major Brown v. State of Florida
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Duval County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
DIMITRA COGDELL VS STATE OF FLORIDA
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Duval County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Bernard Johnson v. State of Florida
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Duval County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
JOHN ASIF VS STATE OF FLORIDA
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Duval County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Maurice Javon Jackson v. State of Florida
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Duval County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Frank Carn v. State of Florida
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Duval County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Leavitis Golphin, III v. State of Florida
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Duval County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Carl Earskin Holt v. State of Florida
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Duval County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
DAVID G. SHIPP VS STATE OF FLORIDA
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Duval County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Glen Albert Haines v. State of Florida
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Duval County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Johnny Jones v. State of Florida
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Duval County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
NATHAN J. RATLIFF VS STATE OF FLORIDA
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Duval County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Citation
Levert J. Stewart v. State of Florida
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Duval County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Devin N. Williams v. State of Florida
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Duval County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Citation
Raymond Anderson v. State of Florida
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Duval County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
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