Answering the Call: From Attorney to Florida Supreme Court Justice

In this Open Ninth Podcast, Justice Jamie Grosshans chats with Chief Judge Don Myers of the Ninth Judicial Circuit (Orange and Osceola Counties) about life as the Supreme Court’s newest justice.

Justice Grosshans talks about her journey from small-town Mississippi to the highest court in Florida. Along the way, they discuss the speech that inspired her pursuit of the bench, her judicial philosophy, college football, juggling family and career, and the twists and turns in her career that she never saw coming.

Justice Grosshans was appointed to the Florida Supreme Court on September 14, 2020. Previously she was appointed to the Fifth District Court of Appeal in 2018 by Governor Rick Scott.

Prior to her appointment to the appellate court, she served as an Orange County Court Judge in the Ninth Judicial Circuit of Florida where she presided over criminal and civil matters and as an Assistant State Attorney for Orange County, Florida, in both the misdemeanor and felony divisions where she tried numerous criminal jury trials.

Justice Grosshans graduated cum laude from the University of Mississippi School of Law.