Circuit Judge · First Judicial Circuit Court
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713 verified requirements and 6 rule deadlines govern practice before Judge Terrance R. Ketchel across the judge, division, county, circuit, and statewide layers.
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Division 003 (Family Law, Dependency)
Verified against Judge Terrance R. Ketchel's own court profile page, 2026-07-24.
Okaloosa County Courthouse Annex Extension 1940 Lewis Turner Blvd. Fort Walton Beach, Florida 32547
Harvested live by BenchPath 2026-07-24 from the circuit's own published record.
Verified 2026-08-02: this circuit publishes NO judge portraits. The 1st's Sanity CMS judge documents carry no image field at all (38 checked via the content API), and the 12th's Judges page serves only a logo, an email-signature graphic and an Adobe button. The missing photo is a court fact, not a harvest gap.
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).
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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.firstjudicialcircuit.org/legal-professionals/judges/terrance-r-ketchel/), confirmed to name them before extraction. The court publishes no biography paragraph for this judge.
2 verified rules specific to this judge's division, grouped by requirement category. 713 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 110 opinions in BenchPath’s corpus (March 6, 2012–March 16, 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 110 are counted in the outcome census above.
last checked September 4, 2026
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Donald Carl Lovejoy Jr vs Courtney Raye Saunders
First District Court of Appeal · Okaloosa County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
Lane v. State of Florida
First District Court of Appeal · Okaloosa County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Malik Cornell Sullivan-Carr vs State of Florida
First District Court of Appeal · Okaloosa County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
Wilson v. State of Florida
First District Court of Appeal · Okaloosa County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Campbell v. Okaloosa County School District
First District Court of Appeal · Okaloosa County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Opinion
Bradley Dunham v. State of Florida
First District Court of Appeal · Okaloosa County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Citation
RT-Destin Associates, LLC v. NexPoint Real Estate Advisors, L.P., FNF Lawyers Title of Texas, Inc, et al
First District Court of Appeal · Okaloosa County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Authored Opinion
GMRI, Inc. d/b/a Longhorn Steakhouse, Darden Restaurants, Inc., Darden Corporation, Rare Hospitality Management, LLC, and Rare Hospitality International, Inc. v. Kimberley Brautigan
First District Court of Appeal · Okaloosa County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Opinion
William A. Thomason v. State of Florida
First District Court of Appeal · Okaloosa County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Opinion
Derek Griffin v. Angela Griffin
First District Court of Appeal · Okaloosa County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Opinion
Derek Griffin VS Angela Griffin
First District Court of Appeal · Okaloosa County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Nix v. Morgan
First District Court of Appeal · Escambia County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
James Axcell vs Nicole Lynn Vest
First District Court of Appeal · Okaloosa County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
Mott v. State of Florida
First District Court of Appeal · Okaloosa County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Joshua Rex Zick v. State of Florida
First District Court of Appeal · Okaloosa County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Beatrice Harrison, on behalf of herself and all others similarly situated vs Lee Auto Holdings Inc., d/b/a Lee Buick GMC, and Lee Nissan
First District Court of Appeal · Okaloosa County
Disposition (court’s label): Reversed
C.N.J., a child vs State of Florida
First District Court of Appeal · Okaloosa County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
P. J., Mother of M.R.M., a Minor Child vs Department of Children and Families
First District Court of Appeal · Okaloosa County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
Taylor v. State of Florida
First District Court of Appeal · Okaloosa County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Bucher v. State of Florida
First District Court of Appeal · Okaloosa County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
S.C., a Child vs State of Florida
First District Court of Appeal · Okaloosa County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed as Modified
Knight v. State of Florida
First District Court of Appeal · Okaloosa County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Seiffert v. Clausman
First District Court of Appeal · Okaloosa County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Jeffery Stoudmire v. State of Florida
First District Court of Appeal · Okaloosa County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Lowe v. State of Florida
First District Court of Appeal · Okaloosa County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Blunt v. State of Florida
First District Court of Appeal · Okaloosa County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Bryant v. State of Florida
First District Court of Appeal · Okaloosa County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
White, Lillard v. Weyer, Rader, et al
First District Court of Appeal · Okaloosa County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Michael Whitfield vs Haley Breann Meeks & OBO K.M.M.
First District Court of Appeal · Okaloosa County
Disposition (court’s label): Reversed
Tyson Owens vs Jillian Owens
First District Court of Appeal · Okaloosa County
Disposition (court’s label): Reversed
C.S., Mother of M.E. and A.E., Minor Children vs Department of Children and Families
First District Court of Appeal · Okaloosa County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
Holder v. State of Florida
First District Court of Appeal · Okaloosa County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Childs v. State of Florida
First District Court of Appeal · Okaloosa County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Torres-Brito v. State of Florida
First District Court of Appeal · Okaloosa County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
William T. Jensen VS State of Florida
First District Court of Appeal · Okaloosa County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Zern v. State of Florida
First District Court of Appeal · Okaloosa County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Mercer v. Neal
First District Court of Appeal · Okaloosa County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Couch v. State of Florida
First District Court of Appeal · Okaloosa County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Opinion
J2 Development, LLC v. Guzman, Emerald Coast Property Group Playground Inn
First District Court of Appeal · Okaloosa County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Staples v. State of Florida
First District Court of Appeal · Okaloosa County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Jimmy Crockett VS State of Florida
First District Court of Appeal · Okaloosa County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Opinion
Hannigan-Cangiano v. State of Florida
First District Court of Appeal · Okaloosa County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Harrison, Harrison v. Destin High School, Destin High School Board, et al
First District Court of Appeal · Okaloosa County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Justin Gander v. State of Florida
First District Court of Appeal · Okaloosa County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Garlough v. State of Florida
First District Court of Appeal · Okaloosa County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Alvaro Ignacio Abaunza vs State of Florida
First District Court of Appeal · Okaloosa County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
Andy Smith VS State of Florida
First District Court of Appeal · Okaloosa County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Aphrey B. Collis vs State of Florida
First District Court of Appeal · Okaloosa County
Disposition (court’s label): Dismissed
Wilson v. State of Florida
First District Court of Appeal · Okaloosa County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Wilson v. State of Florida
First District Court of Appeal · Okaloosa County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
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