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J. Frank Porter
Chief Judge · Twentieth Judicial Circuit Court · Lee County, Florida
High confidence· verified September 14, 2026
- verified requirements
- 442
- verified requirements
- rule deadlines
- 6
- rule deadlines
- sources cited
- 46
- sources cited
- reviewed insights
- 0
- reviewed insights
- verified rulings
- 0
- verified rulings
Verification profile
- High · 437
- Medium · 5
- Low · 0
- Unverified · 0
Report generated October 25, 2026 · benchpath.ai/reports/judge/j-frank-porter
01 Division & assignment
Chief Judge, Twentieth Judicial Circuit — Lee County
Chambers & practice notes
- Judicial assistant
- Crystal
- Judicial assistant
- Crystal (239) 533-2730 cdarling@ca.cjis20.org
- Phone
- (239) 533-2730
- Chambers
- Lee County Justice Center 1700 Monroe Street Fort Myers, FL 33901
- Prior record
- Lee County Justice Center, 1700 Monroe Street, Fort Myers, FL 33901
- Prior record
- Chief Judge, 20th Judicial Circuit
Lee County Justice Center, 1700 Monroe Street, Fort Myers, FL 33901
Published forms & procedures: View Judge Porter's Zoom Instructions; Submitting Orders Electronically
Verified against Judge J. Frank Porter's own court profile page, 2026-07-24.
Division (official profile, verified 2026-07-19): Lee Probate P(7) 50%
Signed all controlling 2024-2026 division assignment orders
02 Live Case-Type Intelligence Scan
Live case-type intelligence scan
● LiveAnswer three quick questions. The platform pulls J. Frank Porter's full public case-law record from the source, newest first — your matter never narrows the pull; it directs the relevance ranking and the dual-AI analysis. Every hit comes back Bluebook-cited with the opinion's own words quoted verbatim. The scan takes the time precision takes.
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Case-law search
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03 Division intelligence
Appellate exposure
Appeals from this courtroom go to the Sixth District Court of Appeal (Lakeland).
● LiveThat court's published bench (11): Carrie Ann Wozniak, Dan Traver, Jared E. Smith, John K. Stargel, Joshua A. Mize, Joshua E. Pratt, Keith F. White, Mary Alice Nardella, Paetra T. Brownlee, Rachel B. Kamoutsas, Roger K. Gannam
Jurisdiction per § 35.043, Fla. Stat. (six-district alignment eff. Jan. 1, 2023).
04 Appellate record (152)
05 Procedural requirements (442)
06 Deadline table
07 Ruling intelligence
No verified ruling summary yet — summaries publish only after human review of a real opinion/docket corpus. The live scan at the top of this report covers what public sources hold today.
08 Source appendix (46)
- Judge profile — J. Frank Porter (20th Circuit)Healthychecked October 24, 2026
- Judge profile — Geoffrey H. Gentile (20th Circuit)Healthychecked October 24, 2026
- Judge profile — Bruce Kyle (20th Circuit)Healthychecked October 24, 2026
- Florida Rules of Court Procedure — The Florida Bar rules index (floridabar.org/rules/ctproc/)Healthychecked October 22, 2026
- Judge profile — Christopher Whitney (20th Circuit)Healthychecked October 24, 2026
09 Recent change events
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