{"id":15110,"date":"2021-09-21T16:38:01","date_gmt":"2021-09-21T20:38:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=15110"},"modified":"2021-09-21T16:38:20","modified_gmt":"2021-09-21T20:38:20","slug":"brandon-rafool-to-serve-as-judge-on-polk-county-court-selected-by-gov-desantis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2021\/09\/21\/brandon-rafool-to-serve-as-judge-on-polk-county-court-selected-by-gov-desantis\/","title":{"rendered":"Brandon Rafool to serve as Judge on Polk County Court selected by Gov. DeSantis"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Brandon Rafool will serve as Judge on the Polk County Court, Governor Ron DeSantis said in a news release Thursday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" src=\"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Rafool-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-15111\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Rafool-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Rafool-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Rafool-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Rafool-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Rafool-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Rafool-250x250.jpg 250w, https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Rafool.jpg 2007w\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Rafool has served as the Managing Partner of The Rafool Firm since 2002 and has been a&nbsp;litigator since 1992.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He received his bachelor\u2019s degree from the University of Florida and a&nbsp;law degree from Stetson University.&nbsp;Rafool fills the vacancy created by the elevation of Judge Lori Winstead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brandon Rafool will serve as Judge on the Polk County Court, Governor Ron DeSantis said in a news release Thursday. Rafool has served as the Managing Partner of The Rafool&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15111,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"wpai_generated_summary":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"{title}\n\n{excerpt}\n\n{url}","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","default_image_id":71799,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[12,14],"tags":[1232],"class_list":["post-15110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local","category-news","tag-brandon-rafool-to-serve-as-judge-on-polk-county-court"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15110\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}