{"id":32853,"date":"2023-06-15T17:28:30","date_gmt":"2023-06-15T21:28:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=32853"},"modified":"2023-06-15T17:28:34","modified_gmt":"2023-06-15T21:28:34","slug":"desantis-appoints-judge-brandon-rafool-to-fill-an-opening-in-the-10th-circuit-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2023\/06\/15\/desantis-appoints-judge-brandon-rafool-to-fill-an-opening-in-the-10th-circuit-court\/","title":{"rendered":"DeSantis appoints Judge Brandon Rafool to fill an opening in the 10th Circuit court"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has appointed Judge Brandon Rafool of Winter Haven as a Circuit Judge on the 10th Judicial Circuit Court, based in Bartow.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"240\" height=\"240\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" src=\"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Judge-Brandon-Rafool.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-32854\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Judge-Brandon-Rafool.jpg 240w, https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Judge-Brandon-Rafool-150x150.jpg 150w\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">DeSantis\u2019 office announced the appointment Tuesday. The seat became vacant with the mandatory retirement in March of Judge Larry Helms. Rafool has served as a county judge on the 10th&nbsp;Judicial Circuit Court since his appointment by DeSantis in 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Rafool previously served as the managing partner of a private law firm. He holds a bachelor\u2019s degree from the University of Florida and a law degree Stetson University.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has appointed Judge Brandon Rafool of Winter Haven as a Circuit Judge on the 10th Judicial Circuit Court, based in Bartow. DeSantis\u2019 office announced the appointment&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":32854,"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":[14],"tags":[5233],"class_list":["post-32853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-desantis-appoints-judge-brandon-rafool-to-fill-an-opening-in-the-10th-circuit-court"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32853","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=32853"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32853\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32855,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32853\/revisions\/32855"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}