FORT LAUDERDALE – The seventeenth Judicial Circuit is delighted to announce the investitures of 5 new judges in two separate ceremonies.
Circuit Courtroom Choose Jonathan D. Lott and County Courtroom Choose Lauren N. Peffer have been honored in a Feb. twenty first investiture ceremony and County Courtroom Judges Kathleen E. Angione, Woody R. Clermont and Corey B. Friedman have been honored in a Feb. twenty eighth investiture ceremony. Each robing ceremonies passed off on the most important Courthouse in Fort Lauderdale. Choose Clermont is of Haitian American descent.

“The seventeenth Circuit is proud to announce the robing of 5 new judges. The judges are all younger, energetic and able to take the Bench,’ mentioned Chief Choose Jack Tuter. “We welcome the brand new judges and want them longevity and good well being of their new roles.”
Choose Lott presides in Family Court in Fort Lauderdale; Choose Clermont, the South Regional Courthouse; Choose Peffer, the West Regional Courthouse in Plantation; Choose Angione, the North Regional Courthouse and Choose Friedman, the principle courthouse in Fort Lauderdale the place he presides over first appearances.

SEVENTEENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT OF FLORIDA
The Seventeenth Judicial Circuit Courtroom of Florida is the court docket for Broward County, headquartered in Fort Lauderdale, FL. It’s the second largest circuit court docket within the state. Broward County has 90 judges. Of these, 32 are county court docket judges and 58 are circuit judges.
4 courthouses comprise the seventeenth circuit and embody the Broward County Courthouse in Fort Lauderdale, and three satellite tv for pc courthouses: the North Regional Courthouse in Deerfield Seashore, the West Regional Courthouse in Plantation and the South Regional Courthouse in Hollywood.
seventeenth Judicial Circuit Courtroom of Florida Caribbean Judges and Common Magistrates
Judges
Florence Taylor Barner – Haitian
Woody R. Clermont – Haitian
Tabitha B. Eves – Trinidad
Michele M. Ricca – Trinidad
Fabienne E. Fahnestock – Haitian/Dominican
Phoebee Francois – Haitian
Jose Izquierdo – Cuban
Carlos A. Rodriguez – Cuban
Marina Garcia-Wooden – Cuban
Alberto Ribas Jr. – Cuban
Frank Ledee – Puerto Rico
Common Magistrates
Yves Laventure – Haitian
Stephanie Matalon – Jamaican
Hilary Creary – Jamaican