Graceville is a city in Jackson County,Florida,United States. It is near the Alabama state line. The population was 2,153 at the 2020 census.
Charles Joseph Crist Jr. is an American attorney and politician who served as the 44th governor of Florida from 2007 to 2011 and as the U.S. representative for Florida's 13th congressional district from 2017 to 2022. Crist has been a member of the Democratic Party since 2012;he was previously a Republican before becoming an independent in 2010.
The district courts of appeal (DCAs) are the intermediate appellate courts of the Florida state court system. There are currently six DCAs:
Barbara Joan Pariente is an attorney and jurist from Florida. She was chief justice of the Florida Supreme Court from July 1,2004,until June 30,2006. Pariente is the second woman to hold the position of chief justice and served on the court from 1997 to 2019. From 1993 to 1997 she was a judge on Florida's Fourth District Court of Appeal.
Rosemary Barkett is an American judge of the Iran–United States Claims Tribunal located in The Hague,Netherlands since 2013. Previously,she served as a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. Prior to her nomination for that post,she was chief justice of the Florida Supreme Court.
Richard Fred Lewis is a retired American judge who was appointed to the Supreme Court of Florida on December 7,1998,and served until January 8,2019.
Kenneth Bradley Bell is a former Associate Justice of the Florida Supreme Court.
Jorge Labarga is a justice of the Florida Supreme Court,taking office on January 6,2009. On June 30,2014,he was sworn in as Florida's 56th Chief Justice and the first Cuban-American to hold the post. He was succeeded on July 1,2018,by Charles T. Canady.
Charles Terrance Canady is an American attorney and judge serving on the Supreme Court of Florida since 2008. He previously served as Chief Justice from 2010 to 2012 and from 2018 to 2022.
Nilda Pedrosa was an American politician in the Republican party and the acting Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs of the United States Department of State,from September 28,2020,until a few days before her death in January 2021. She was formerly a policy advocate and the Assistant Dean for Development &External Affairs at Florida International University College of Law.
Shutts &Bowen LLP is an AmLaw 200 law firm with 270 attorneys in eight offices in the state of Florida. Shutts &Bowen was founded in 1910. Frank B. Shutts came to Miami in 1909 and became the legal representative of Henry Flagler and the Florida East Coast Railway Company. In 1910,he formed a professional association with Henry F. Atkinson.
James E. C. Perry is an American judge. He is a former justice of the Supreme Court of Florida.
Ronald Dion DeSantis is an American politician serving since 2019 as the 46th governor of Florida. A member of the Republican Party,he served as the U.S. representative from Florida's 6th congressional district from 2013 to 2018. DeSantis was a candidate for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination,withdrawing his candidacy in January 2024.
Graceville High School is a public high school in Graceville,Florida. The school's teams compete with the Tigers mascot and the school colors are black,orange,and white. The school opened in 1885. In 2021,Graceville High School was ranked 516-602nd within Florida. The total minority enrollment is 60%,and 50% of students are economically disadvantaged. Florida Supreme Court Justice Ricky Polston was valedictorian of his class of 1973.
Leander Jerry Shaw Jr. was an American jurist who served on the Florida Supreme Court from 1983 until 2003. He was chief justice from 1990 to 1992.
Robert Joshua Luck is an American lawyer and jurist who serves as a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. He was a justice of the Florida Supreme Court in 2019. A Miami native,he previously served as an assistant United States attorney and as a judge on the Eleventh Judicial Circuit Court of Florida and then the Florida Third District Court of Appeal.
William Hull Ellis,more commonly referred to as William H. Ellis and W. H. Ellis,was an American attorney and politician from the state of Florida. Ellis served twice as the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Florida.
A general election was held on Tuesday,November 8,2022,to elect candidates throughout Florida,as part of the 2022 midterm elections. The results of the elections showed strong Republican Party outcomes,as every statewide Republican candidate won in a landslide. The Florida Republican Party also expanded its majority in the state legislature and won 20 out of Florida's 28 U.S. House seats.
Meredith L. Sasso is an American lawyer who has served as a justice of the Supreme Court of Florida since May 2023. She was previously the chief judge on the Florida Sixth District Court of Appeal.
Ron DeSantis has served as the 46th governor of Florida since January 8,2019. A member of the Republican Party,he narrowly defeated Democratic challenger Andrew Gillum in the 2018 Florida gubernatorial election. As governor,DeSantis resisted taking many of the measures to slow the spread of COVID-19 that various other state governments implemented,such as face-mask mandates,stay-at-home orders,and vaccination requirements. During the pandemic,Florida experienced above-average economic growth. DeSantis cut state-government spending,which,combined with federal stimulus payments and high sales-tax revenue,led to the largest budget surplus in Florida history. He engaged in recovery efforts after Hurricane Ian and Hurricane Nicole,and oversaw the passage of the controversial Parental Rights in Education Act. He was reelected in a landslide in the 2022 Florida gubernatorial election;his 19.4% margin of victory over Charlie Crist was the state's largest in 40 years. He has generally governed as a conservative.
