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6 verbatim mandatory provisions from JUDICIAL NOMINATING COMMISSION, FIRST JUDICIAL CIRCUIT NOTICE OF SANTA ROSA COUNTY COURT VACANCY.
First Judicial Circuit. Check the order's own effective and rescission dates before relying on it. Procedural information only; not legal advice.
Verbatim from the order's own text layer, harvested 2026-07-24; whitespace normalised only. No OCR was used. Only sentences containing mandatory language (shall, must, may not, no later than, within N) are reproduced — the full document is in custody and is the controlling text. • Applicants must fulfill the Constitutional qualifications before assuming the office of County Court Judge, which specify that: a) no person shall be eligible for the office of judge of any court unless the person is an elector of the state and resides in the territorial jurisdiction of the court; and b) no person is eligible for the office of county judge unless the person is, and has been for the preceding five years, a member of the bar of Florida. • All applicants must submit the following: a .pdf version of the complete unredacted application with attachments, including the executed FDLE form, and a color photograph in .jpg or .gif format; and a .pdf version of a redacted copy of the application excluding all exempt information pursuant to Chapter 119, Florida Statutes. • Applications must be delivered by email to Zack Smith, Chair, at zack.smith@heritage.org no later than 5:00 p.m. • All questions in the application must be fully and completely answered. • The submitted application must include the required financial disclosures, a writing sample, and a recent photograph. • Applications must also include current contact information, including e-mail addresses, for all judges, co-counsel, opposing counsel, and references to facilitate the background investigation that members of the Commission will conduct.
Applicants must fulfill the Constitutional qualifications before assuming the office of County Court Judge, which specify that: a) no person shall be eligible for the office of judge of any court unless the person is an elector of the state and resides in the territorial jurisdiction of the court; and b) no person is eligible for the office of county judge unless the person is, and has been for the preceding five years, a member of the bar of Florida.
Reviewer note: Document sha256: e91df391b4d2c52a9c58b497bf994a399e10d436f1c0bbea48f4e74a98e712b7 (129616 bytes). BenchPath harvested this circuit itself because no research corpus existed for it. Extraction is conservative: mandatory-language sentences only, so this rule is a faithful subset of the order, never a summary of it.
The 17th Circuit's circuit-wide AI disclosure/certification mandate (Jan 2026, twice amended) was VACATED in its entirety effective June 15, 2026 by Chief Judge Phillips's AO 2026-19-Gen, expressly citing the statewide framework (AOSC26-12; Rule 2.515(d)(2), SC2026-0673). Several division procedure pages still cite the vacated order.
Every circuit-civil case reviewed within 120 days of commencement and assigned a track (complex, streamlined, or general); case management orders required; firm continuance policy; sanctions for missed deadlines. Rescinds AO 21-09.
Circuit-civil hearing-availability standards: motion calendars ~2 weeks from request; 15-30 min special sets within 45-60 days; longer special sets scale.