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Thomas Reese
Senior Judge · Twentieth Judicial Circuit Court
High confidence· verified July 25, 2026
Senior Judge · Twentieth Judicial Circuit Court
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811 verified requirements and 6 rule deadlines govern practice before Judge Thomas Reese across the judge, division, county, circuit, and statewide layers.
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Senior Judge — Lee County
Lee County Justice Center, 1700 Monroe Street, Fort Myers, FL 33901
Verified against Judge Thomas Reese's own court profile page, 2026-07-24.
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 Sixth District Court of Appeal (Lakeland).
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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.ca.cjis20.org/About-The-Court/jud_profile.aspx?judge=reese), confirmed to name them before extraction. The court publishes no biography paragraph for this judge.
This tab lists judge-and-division rules only, and this judge's division publishes its practice at the county, circuit, and statewide layers instead — 811 verified requirements still govern this courtroom. The Full Premium Report assembles every one of them, cited.
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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.
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How Florida’s appellate courts disposed of the 101 opinions in BenchPath’s corpus (March 5, 2004–January 20, 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 101 are counted in the outcome census above.
Derek Scott Peete v. State of Florida
Sixth District Court of Appeal · Lee County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
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GARLENS ROGER VS STATE OF FLORIDA
Sixth District Court of Appeal · Lee County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
EDDIE JAMES JONES VS STATE OF FLORIDA
Sixth District Court of Appeal · Lee County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
GERALD LEON BANKS, JR. vs STATE OF FLORIDA
Second District Court of Appeal · Lee County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
JUAN DIEGO MATEO vs STATE OF FLORIDA
Second District Court of Appeal · Lee County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
JUAN MATEO RUIZ vs STATE OF FLORIDA
Second District Court of Appeal · Lee County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
DANNY LEVON BROWN vs STATE OF FLORIDA
Second District Court of Appeal · Lee County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
ANTHONY ANDREWS vs STATE OF FLORIDA
Second District Court of Appeal · Lee County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
DENNIS LAMAR FLINT vs STATE OF FLORIDA
Second District Court of Appeal · Lee County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed in Part/Reversed in Part
LORENZO BROOKS vs STATE OF FLORIDA
Second District Court of Appeal · Hendry County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
JOHN JAMES DUNN vs STATE OF FLORIDA
Second District Court of Appeal · Lee County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
TYRELL DESHAWN SANDERS vs STATE OF FLORIDA
Second District Court of Appeal · Lee County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
LEVON CONFTON BARNES vs STATE OF FLORIDA
Second District Court of Appeal · Lee County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
JOCELYN G. CHAVEZ-INIGUEZ vs STATE OF FLORIDA
Second District Court of Appeal · Lee County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
HANS UDO HERTZER vs STATE OF FLORIDA
Second District Court of Appeal · Lee County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
KETEL NICOLAS vs STATE OF FLORIDA
Second District Court of Appeal · Lee County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
TERRY BRADY vs STATE OF FLORIDA
Second District Court of Appeal · Lee County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
ANTHONY G. TYSON vs STATE OF FLORIDA
Second District Court of Appeal · Lee County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
ITAMAR BARHAI vs HSBC BANK USA, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION
Second District Court of Appeal · Lee County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
RODOLFO HERNANDEZ vs STATE OF FLORIDA
Second District Court of Appeal · Lee County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
CHUNSI WILLIAM VINES vs STATE OF FLORIDA
Second District Court of Appeal · Lee County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
SCOTT ERNEST ZEIDES vs STATE OF FLORIDA
Second District Court of Appeal · Lee County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
BRANDON MICHAEL KREIER vs STATE OF FLORIDA
Second District Court of Appeal · Lee County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
TIMOTHY W. TUTTLE, JR. vs STATE OF FLORIDA
Second District Court of Appeal · Lee County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
ASAD U. KHAN vs STATE OF FLORIDA
Second District Court of Appeal · Lee County
Disposition (court’s label): Reversed
MICHAEL TYRONE MC CARTER vs STATE OF FLORIDA
Second District Court of Appeal · Lee County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
BLACK POINT ASSETS, INC., AS TRUSTEE vs US BANK NATIONAL ASSOC., AS TRUSTEE
Second District Court of Appeal · Lee County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
Lewars v. State
Second District Court of Appeal · Lee County
Houk v. PennyMac Corp.
Second District Court of Appeal · Lee County
GEOVANNI OLIVO-CORTES vs STATE OF FLORIDA
Second District Court of Appeal · Lee County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
Cottrell v. Taylor, Bean & Whitaker Mortgage Corp.
Second District Court of Appeal · Glades County
Bernat v. State
Second District Court of Appeal · Lee County
Baskin v. State
Second District Court of Appeal · Lee County
Chepelevich v. State
Second District Court of Appeal · Lee County
Nieves v. State
Second District Court of Appeal · Lee County
Palmer v. State
Second District Court of Appeal · Lee County
Romanyuk v. State
Second District Court of Appeal · Charlotte County
Nieves v. State
Second District Court of Appeal · Lee County
Tuttle v. State
Second District Court of Appeal · Lee County
State v. Tyson
Second District Court of Appeal · Lee County
Figueroa v. State
Second District Court of Appeal · Lee County
Washington v. State
Second District Court of Appeal · Lee County
Caldwell v. State
Second District Court of Appeal · Lee County
Verity v. State
Second District Court of Appeal · Lee County
Pinkney v. State
Second District Court of Appeal · Lee County
Carbajal v. State
Second District Court of Appeal · Lee County
Vance v. State
Second District Court of Appeal · Lee County
Russ v. State
Second District Court of Appeal · Lee County
Carter v. State
Second District Court of Appeal · Lee County
Churchwell v. State
Second District Court of Appeal · Lee County
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