{"id":65927,"date":"2026-05-18T17:42:46","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T21:42:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=65927"},"modified":"2026-05-18T17:42:53","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T21:42:53","slug":"governor-ron-desantis-makes-three-judicial-appointments-in-polk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2026\/05\/18\/governor-ron-desantis-makes-three-judicial-appointments-in-polk\/","title":{"rendered":"Governor Ron DeSantis Makes Three Judicial Appointments in Polk"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img data-dominant-color=\"363635\" data-has-transparency=\"false\" style=\"--dominant-color: #363635;\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"245\" height=\"206\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 245px) 100vw, 245px\" src=\"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/download-3-4.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-65930 not-transparent\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Kevin Kohl, of Lake Wales, to serve as Judge on the Tenth Judicial Circuit Court<\/strong><br><br>Judge Kohl has served as a County Court Judge for Polk County since his appointment by the Governor in 2021. Previously, he served as an Assistant State Attorney for the Tenth Judicial Circuit. He earned both his bachelor\u2019s degree and his juris doctor from Florida State University. Judge Kohl fills a judicial vacancy created by the enactment of Senate Bill 2508.<br><br><strong>Taylor Bowman, of Winter Haven, to serve as Judge on the Tenth Judicial Circuit Court<\/strong><br><br>Bowman has worked as a Partner at Hinshaw &amp; Culbertson since 2018. Previously, he served as an Assistant State Attorney for the Tenth Judicial Circuit. He earned his bachelor\u2019s degree from New Mexico State University and his juris doctor from Florida Coastal School of Law. Bowman fills a judicial vacancy created by the retirement of Judge Masters.<br><br><strong>Jordan Wells, of Bartow, to serve as Judge on the Polk County Court&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br>Wells has served as a Career Attorney for Judge Robert Morris of the Second District Court of Appeal since 2009. Previously, she served as a Staff Attorney for the Second District Court of Appeal. She earned both her bachelor\u2019s degree and her juris doctor from Florida State University. Wells fills a judicial vacancy created by the retirement of Judge Griffin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kevin Kohl, of Lake Wales, to serve as Judge on the Tenth Judicial Circuit Court Judge Kohl has served as a County Court Judge for Polk County since his appointment&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":65930,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"14","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","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":"dois","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":true,"token":"eyJpbWciOiJodHRwczpcL1wvaTAud3AuY29tXC9sYWtlbGFuZGdhemV0dGUuaW5mb1wvbmV3c1wvd3AtY29udGVudFwvdXBsb2Fkc1wvMjAyNlwvMDVcL2Rvd25sb2FkLTMtNC53ZWJwP2ZpdD0yNDUlMkMyMDYmc3NsPTEiLCJ0eHQiOiJHb3Zlcm5vciBSb24gRGVTYW50aXMgTWFrZXMgVGhyZWUgSnVkaWNpYWwgQXBwb2ludG1lbnRzIGluIFBvbGsiLCJ0ZW1wbGF0ZSI6ImRvaXMiLCJmb250IjoiIiwiYmxvZ19pZCI6MTYzMDQwNjYxfQ.tViDQmO8UUe5k1Stxr2PZesyMUXU4egIU3cnC5MIF1gMQ","image_type":"featured","custom_text":""},"version":2,"media_source":"sig","attached_media":[{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/jetpack.com\/redirect\/?source=sigenerate&query=t%3DeyJpbWciOiJodHRwczpcL1wvbGFrZWxhbmRnYXpldHRlLmluZm9cL25ld3NcL3dwLWNvbnRlbnRcL3VwbG9hZHNcLzIwMjZcLzA1XC9kb3dubG9hZC0zLTQud2VicCIsInR4dCI6IkdvdmVybm9yIFJvbiBEZVNhbnRpcyBNYWtlcyBUaHJlZSBKdWRpY2lhbCBBcHBvaW50bWVudHMgaW4gUG9sayIsInRlbXBsYXRlIjoiZG9pcyIsImZvbnQiOiIiLCJibG9nX2lkIjoxNjMwNDA2NjF9.3klzJRwwMpeZqSSiVQzgs_SEoJsve1Y_kI0B799JlGcMQ","type":"image\/jpeg"}]},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[14],"tags":[14640],"class_list":["post-65927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-governor-ron-desantis-makes-three-judicial-appointments-in-polk"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65927","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=65927"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65927\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65931,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65927\/revisions\/65931"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}