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Wesley D. Tibbals
Circuit Judge · Thirteenth Judicial Circuit Court
High confidence· verified August 3, 2026
Circuit Judge · Thirteenth Judicial Circuit Court
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451 verified requirements and 6 rule deadlines govern practice before Judge Wesley D. Tibbals across the judge, division, county, circuit, and statewide layers.
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Circuit Criminal — Division E
Courtroom Annex Crt 61
Jackie Watkins
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Education: Law School:J.D., University of Florida Levin College of Law, 1998; Undergraduate: B.A., University of Florida, 1995; Areas Of Experience; Business Disputes; Products Liability & Mass Torts; Wage & Hour Issues; Awards & Recognition; Super Lawyers Magazine 2010-2014, Listed in Florida for Business Litigation and General Litigation; Florida Trend's Legal Elite 2010-2012, Listed for Business Law and Commercial Litigation; Professional Memberships & Activities; Florida Bar Young Lawyers Division Board of Governors, 2009-2011; Hillsborough County Bar Association, Member; American Bar Association, Member; St. Andrews Episcopal Church, Vestry (2007-2009); Senior Warden (2009); Foundation, Member
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Edgecomb Courthouse, 800. E Twiggs St., Room #428, Tampa, Florida 33602
Published forms & procedures: Judicial Practices and Procedures
Verified against Judge Wesley D. Tibbals's own court profile page, 2026-08-02.
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 Second District Court of Appeal (St. Petersburg).
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Profile upgraded 2026-08-02: bio_url now points to this judge's own page (https://www.fljud13.org/Directory/Judges/Judge-Tibbals), confirmed to name them before extraction. Biography captured verbatim from the court's page. 1 linked form/procedure document(s) fetched and hashed.
2 verified rules specific to this judge's division, grouped by requirement category. 451 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 59 opinions in BenchPath’s corpus (March 24, 2017–July 17, 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 59 are counted in the outcome census above.
last checked September 3, 2026
last checked September 3, 2026
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Circuit Criminal — Division Ecurrent
date not recorded — present · Courtroom Annex Crt 61
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Jurisdiction per § 35.043, Fla. Stat. (six-district alignment eff. Jan. 1, 2023).
Fisher v. State of Florida
Second District Court of Appeal · Hillsborough County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
OLIVIA KENISHA BOOTH, N/K/A OLIVIA KENISHA WILLIAMS vs CHRISTOPHER GLEN HICKS
Second District Court of Appeal · Hillsborough County
Disposition (court’s label): Reversed
Gaffney v. State of Florida
Second District Court of Appeal · Hillsborough County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
ANIKA V. ALLEN F/K/A ANIKA V. MAXWELL VS DWIGHT MAXWELL
Second District Court of Appeal · Hillsborough County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Cruzado v. State of Florida
Second District Court of Appeal · Hillsborough County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
ANTHONY PAYNE vs ELIZABETH PAYNE
Second District Court of Appeal · Hillsborough County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
FernandezLopez v. State of Florida
Second District Court of Appeal · Hillsborough County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Carrington v. State of Florida
Second District Court of Appeal · Hillsborough County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
RONALD LOWERY vs ALMA JEAN LOWERY
Second District Court of Appeal · Hillsborough County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
Collins v. Wadud
Second District Court of Appeal · Hillsborough County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
RICHARD E. MILLER vs AMY D. MILLER
Second District Court of Appeal · Hillsborough County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
LESA MARTINO vs GUARDIANSHIP OF ROLAND T. MARTINO
Second District Court of Appeal · Hillsborough County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
ASHLEY TUNSTALL vs A. GORDON TUNSTALL, I I I
Second District Court of Appeal · Hillsborough County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
MORRIS RAY OWENS vs LINDA OLEKSYK
Second District Court of Appeal · Hillsborough County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
Walker v. State of Florida
Second District Court of Appeal · Hillsborough County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Hodges v. Payne
Second District Court of Appeal · Hillsborough County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Otero v. State of Florida
Second District Court of Appeal · Hillsborough County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
LESA MARTINO vs GUARDIANSHIP OF ROLAND T. MARTINO
Second District Court of Appeal · Hillsborough County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
Wiendl v. Wiendl
Second District Court of Appeal · Writ of Certiorari to the Circuit Court for Hillsborough County
Disposition (court’s label): Petition - Authored Opinion
Drummond v. State of Florida
Second District Court of Appeal · Hillsborough County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
CARMEN F. CASSIDY vs WILLIAM PAUL CASSIDY, JR.
Second District Court of Appeal · Hillsborough County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
LESA MARTINO vs GUARDIANSHIP OF ROLAND T. MARTINO
Second District Court of Appeal · Hillsborough County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
LESA MARTINO vs GUARDIANSHIP OF ROLAND T. MARTINO
Second District Court of Appeal · Hillsborough County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
M. H. V. vs THE MATTER OF THE ADOPTION OF: D. J. R., I I
Second District Court of Appeal · Hillsborough County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
Williams v. State of Florida
Second District Court of Appeal · Hillsborough County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
FernandezLopez v. State of Florida
Second District Court of Appeal · Hillsborough County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
T. T. L. VS F. A. L.
Second District Court of Appeal · Hillsborough County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Authored Opinion
Moore v. State of Florida
Second District Court of Appeal · Hillsborough County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
SARA SHIFRA GERBER VS TZVI MORDECHAI DUBROWSKI
Second District Court of Appeal · Hillsborough County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Authored Opinion
R. B. vs B. T.
Second District Court of Appeal · Hillsborough County
Disposition (court’s label): Reversed
Sailor v. State of Florida
Second District Court of Appeal · Hillsborough County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Cotton-Betteridge v. Cotton-Betteridge
Second District Court of Appeal · Hillsborough County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
ALMA LOWERY vs RONALD LOWERY
Second District Court of Appeal · Hillsborough County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
MICHAEL PATRICK CARROLL vs LINDSEY TRUEX CARROLL
Second District Court of Appeal · Hillsborough County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
FRANK MONTE vs KIMBERLY ANDERSON AND ROBERT ANDERSON
Second District Court of Appeal · Writ of Certiorari to the Circuit Court for Hillsborough County
Disposition (court’s label): Dismissed
AMY FRANCES PESCHEL vs JAY GRANGER
Second District Court of Appeal · Hillsborough County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
ELISABETH DENHAM NELSON - HUDSON vs WILLIAM HUDSON
Second District Court of Appeal · Hillsborough County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
LISA POSADA vs JIA BIN TENG, ET AL
Second District Court of Appeal · Writ of Certiorari to the Circuit Court for Hillsborough County
Disposition (court’s label): Dismissed
JOSUE JEAN vs ROSEMITA JEAN
Second District Court of Appeal · Hillsborough County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
CHAD MC DANIEL vs LAURA ALISE MC DANIEL
Second District Court of Appeal · Hillsborough County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed in Part/Reversed in Part
CLYDE JENSEN vs MICHELLE JENSEN
Second District Court of Appeal · Hillsborough County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
Smith v. Klapon
Second District Court of Appeal · Hillsborough County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Opinion
JOSEPH ARTHUR WIENDL vs STEPHANIE WIENDL
Second District Court of Appeal · Hillsborough County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
A. GORDON TUNSTALL, III vs ASHLEY GONZALEZ-TUNSTALL
Second District Court of Appeal · Hillsborough County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
CARL WILL vs LISA DAWN WILL
Second District Court of Appeal · Hillsborough County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed in Part/Reversed in Part
JOSEPH ARTHUR WIENDL vs STEPHANIE WIENDL
Second District Court of Appeal · Hillsborough County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
SAMUEL BRUNT vs DAWN BRUNT
Second District Court of Appeal · Hillsborough County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
MICHAEL S. ZINOVOY vs DEBORAH ZINOVOY
Second District Court of Appeal · Hillsborough County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
TONI L. SEXTON vs OSCAR DENNIS HERNANDEZ, JR.
Second District Court of Appeal · Hillsborough County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
BRANDON RACHON BEACHEM vs DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE
Second District Court of Appeal · Hillsborough County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
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