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Melissa M. Polo
Circuit Judge · Thirteenth Judicial Circuit Court · Hillsborough County, Florida
High confidence· verified September 17, 2026
- verified requirements
- 109
- verified requirements
- rule deadlines
- 6
- rule deadlines
- sources cited
- 79
- sources cited
- reviewed insights
- 0
- reviewed insights
- verified rulings
- 0
- verified rulings
Verification profile
- High · 105
- Medium · 4
- Low · 0
- Unverified · 0
Report generated October 25, 2026 · benchpath.ai/reports/judge/melissa-m-polo
01 Division & assignment
Circuit Civil — Division C
Chambers & practice notes
- Judicial assistant
- Patricia DePagter
- Phone
- (813) 272-6994
Edgecomb Courthouse, 800 E. Twiggs St., Room #523, Tampa, Florida 33602
Published forms & procedures: Order on Procedures Applicable to Jury Trials; Order on Procedures for Motions in Limine; Order Setting Non-Jury Trial and Directing Pre-Trial Procedure (Residential Foreclosure); Order Setting Procedures for "Daubert" Type Hearings; Uniform Order setting Cause for Trial and Pre-Trial(Non-Jury Trial); Uniform Pretrial Conference Order (Jury Trial)
Verified against Judge Melissa M. Polo'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.
02 Live Case-Type Intelligence Scan
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03 Division intelligence
Appellate exposure
Appeals from this courtroom go to the Second District Court of Appeal (St. Petersburg).
● LiveThat court's published bench (15): Andrea Teves Smith, Anthony K. Black, Craig C. Villanti, Daniel H. Sleet, Edward C. LaRose, J. Andrew Atkinson, John Guard, Matthew C. Lucas, Morris Silberman, Nelly Khouzam, Patricia J. Kelly, Robert Morris, Stevan T. Northcutt
04 Appellate record (128)
05 Procedural requirements (109)
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 (79)
- 13th Cir. — Judge Polo (Civ C) Procedures & PreferencesHealthychecked October 24, 2026
- 13th Cir. — Judge Polo (Civ C) 2026 Jury Trial Weeks — PDFHealthychecked October 25, 2026
- 13th Cir. — Hearing Officers directoryHealthychecked October 24, 2026
- 13th Cir. — AO S-2026-025 (Title IV-D child support enforcement hearing officers)Healthychecked October 24, 2026
- 13th Cir. — AO A-2013-006 (recusal / attorney-conflict reassignment)Healthychecked October 24, 2026
09 Recent change events
- October 25, 2026Monitor detected a source-content or hash-basis change. Review the archived bytes before republishing dependent material.
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