Certified Judicial Need The Judicial Resource Study is used to measure the Workload
of Trial Court Judges (http://www.flcourts.org) by providing a weight to each case filing.
Certified Judge need is number Judges needed to handle 100% of weighted filings
The State of Florida for FY 2010-11 has a Certified Judge Need of 33.9 additional Circuit Judges and 48.5 additional County Judges
The 20th Judicial Circuit for FY 2010-11 has a Certified Judge Need of 3.8 additional Circuit Judges and 3.5 additional County Judges
∆‘05 to ‘09 Avg. ∆‘05-‘09
∆‘08 to ∆‘09
Circuit Criminal - Lee 71.2% 15.9% -12.0%
Circuit Criminal – Collier
-22.3% -5.9% -15.3%
Circuit Criminal - Charlotte
28.9% 7.5% -14.9%
Circuit Criminal – Hendry
76.1% 16.4% -4.2%
Circuit Criminal – Glades
126.3% 24.6% 41.3%
Circuit Crim. – circuitwide
33.9% 8.3% -11.8%
20th Circuit – Circuit Criminal Court
has increased 34% since 2005
∆‘05 to ‘09 Avg. ∆‘05-‘09
∆‘08 to ∆‘09
Circuit Civil - Lee 70.5% 479.4% 9.7%
Circuit Civil – Collier 59.6% 405.2% 30.4%
Circuit Civil – Charlotte
40.4% 211.5% 19.1%
Circuit Civil – Hendry
23.5% 125.7% 14.1%
Circuit Civil – Glades 14.8% 56.3% -3.8%
Circuit Civil – circuitwide
61.4% 396.3% 14.8%
20th Circuit – Circuit Civil Courthas increased 396% since 2005
∆‘05 to ’09 Avg. ∆‘05-‘09
∆‘08 to ∆‘09
UFC – Lee -0.5% 0.1% -8.0%
UFC – Collier -12.4% -3.2% -6.4%
UFC – Charlotte 18.3% 5.2% -11.2%
UFC – Hendry -10.4% -2.0% 4.9%
UFC – Glades -16.3% -2.7% -28.4%
UFC – circuitwide 11.6% 2.9% 4.5%
20th Circuit – Unified Family Court
has increased 12% since 2005
∆‘05 to ’09 Avg. ∆‘05-‘09
∆‘08 to ∆‘09
Probate Court – Lee -47.9% -14.8% -9.1%
Probate Court – Collier
-8.6% -2.2% -1.9%
Probate Court – Charlotte
-42.5% -12.8% -11.0%
Probate Court – Hendry
-25.8% -5.7% -25.4%
Probate Court – Glades
-5.4% 4.1% -39.7%
Circuit Prob. – circuitwide
-37.1% -10.8% -5.3%
20th Circuit – Probate Courthas decreased 5% since 2008
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