The Supreme Court Judicial Nominating Committee received 15 applications before the Oct. 25 noon deadline, including three — Judge John Marshall Meisburg Jr., Charles P. Pillans III and Judge Waddell A. Wallace, III — from Jacksonville. The applicants are:
• Judge Kenneth B. Bell, 46, Pensacola, circuit judge, 1st Judicial Circuit
• Judge T. Michael Jones, 52, Pensacola, circuit judge, 1st Judicial Circuit
• Judge Joseph Lewis Jr., 49, Tallahassee, First District Court of Appeal
• Judge John Marshall Meisburg Jr., 56, Jacksonville, U.S. administrative law judge
• George N. Meros Jr., 49, Tallahassee, shareholder, Gray Harris Robinson, PA
• Judge Philip J. Padovano, 55, Tallahassee, First District Court of Appeal
• Charles P. Pillans III, 62, Jacksonville, shareholder, Bedell Dittmar DeVault Pillans & Coxe, PA
• Judge Ricky L. Polston, 46, Tallahassee, First District Court of Appeal
• Judge Errol H. Powell, 51, Tallahassee, administrative law judge
• Michael P. Reiter, 55, Tallahassee, CCRC, Northern Region
• Kenneth Wayne Sukia, 49, Tallahassee, shareholder, Fowler White Boggs Banker
• Carolyn M. Snurkowski, 55, Tallahassee, assistant deputy attorney general
• Judge Waddell A. Wallace, III, 49, Jacksonville, circuit judge, 4th Judicial Circuit
• Judge Peter Webster, 53, Tallahassee, First District Court of Appeal
• John O. Williams Jr., 54, Tallahassee, shareholder, Williams & Holtz, PA
A screening meeting of all judicial applications is scheduled for Nov. 7 in Orlando.
Because this meeting will consist of deliberating on those applicants to be selected for an interview, it will be conducted in closed session.
Interviews are scheduled for Nov. 13 and 14 in Tallahassee at The Florida Bar Annex, Room 114, followed by closed deliberations and voting.