{"id":57521,"date":"2025-08-26T18:14:15","date_gmt":"2025-08-26T22:14:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=57521"},"modified":"2025-08-26T18:14:20","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T22:14:20","slug":"governor-appoints-two-new-judges-in-polk-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2025\/08\/26\/governor-appoints-two-new-judges-in-polk-county\/","title":{"rendered":"Governor appoints two new judges in Polk County"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Gov. Ron DeSantis made two judicial appointments August 25.<strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img data-dominant-color=\"7d6066\" data-has-transparency=\"false\" style=\"--dominant-color: #7d6066;\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"284\" height=\"177\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 284px) 100vw, 284px\" src=\"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/images-7.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-57522 not-transparent\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Julie \u201cJC\u201d Hill of Winter Haven to serve as judge on the 10th Judicial Circuit Court<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hill has served as an assistant state attorney for the 10th Judicial Circuit since 2012. Previously, she served as an assistant public defender in the 13th Judicial Circuit. She earned her bachelor\u2019s degree from the University of Florida and juris doctor from Chase College of Law. Hill fills the judicial vacancy created by the resignation of Judge Torea Spohr.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Allison Fox of Winter Haven to serve as judge on the Polk County Court&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fox has served as an assistant state attorney for the 10th Judicial Circuit since 2013. Previously, she served as a program attorney in the Fourth Judicial Circuit Guardian Ad Litem Program. She earned her bachelor\u2019s degree from Smith College and juris doctor from Florida Coastal School of Law. Fox fills the vacancy created by the retirement of Mary Catherine&nbsp;Judge Green.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gov. Ron DeSantis made two judicial appointments August 25.&nbsp; Julie \u201cJC\u201d Hill of Winter Haven to serve as judge on the 10th Judicial Circuit Court Hill has served as an&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":57522,"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":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":true,"token":"eyJpbWciOiJodHRwczpcL1wvaTAud3AuY29tXC9sYWtlbGFuZGdhemV0dGUuaW5mb1wvbmV3c1wvd3AtY29udGVudFwvdXBsb2Fkc1wvMjAyNVwvMDhcL2ltYWdlcy03LndlYnA_Zml0PTI4NCUyQzE3NyZzc2w9MSIsInR4dCI6IkdvdmVybm9yIGFwcG9pbnRzIHR3byBuZXcganVkZ2VzIGluIFBvbGsgQ291bnR5IiwidGVtcGxhdGUiOiJoaWdod2F5IiwiZm9udCI6IiIsImJsb2dfaWQiOjE2MzA0MDY2MX0.O9yDU3ePQDDgYMjvaVepeywfc_IGgcydXwO6zRZzpigMQ"},"version":2,"attached_media":[{"id":57522,"url":"http:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/images-7.webp","type":"image\/jpeg"}]},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[14],"tags":[12060],"class_list":["post-57521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-governor-appoints-two-new-judges-in-polk-county"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57521","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=57521"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57523,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57521\/revisions\/57523"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}