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Article: JNCs invite applications for 17 new statewide.
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- Florida Bar News
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- October 15, 1999
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Call it 15 down and 17 to go. But whatever the label, judicial nominating commissions around Florida are gearing up to fill the second batch of new judgeships approved by the legislature earlier this year.
The legislature authorized a total, of 32 new judgeships in the spring, specifying that 15 were to be advertised no sooner than August 1, and the remainder no sooner than October 1. In this round, JNCs will be interviewing applicants for one district court of appeal judge, 12 circuit judgeships and four, county judgeships.
The vacancies are for one seat on the Fifth DCA, two circuit vacancies each in the Fifth, Sixth and 19th circuits, one circuit ...