Fourth Circuit Judge Tatiana Salvador is chair of The Florida Bar Criminal Law Section for the 2025–26 Bar year.
“Our section’s more than 2,300 members — judges, prosecutors, defense attorneys, law professors, students and other criminal law professionals — are united by a commitment to a fair, just, and efficient criminal justice system for everyone,” Salvador said in a news release from The Florida Bar.
Salvador was appointed to the bench in 2012 and hears cases in the felony and civil divisions. She was the sole judge presiding over all post-conviction cases in 2018 and was the administrative judge for the felony division in 2023. During her tenure, she has overseen more than 100 jury trials.
Salvador is a faculty member for the Office of State Court Administration, training judges statewide on a range of topics. She also is a current member and former president of the Chester Bedell American Inn of Court, which promotes ethics, civility, professionalism and excellence in the legal profession.
Recognized for her contributions to the judiciary, in 2020, Salvador received one of the inaugural statewide “Florida Jurist” awards for Hispanic excellence on the bench. In 2022, she received the Jurist of the Year Award from the Young Lawyers Division of The Florida Bar.
Before her judicial appointment, Salvador was an assistant state attorney in Jacksonville, prosecuting criminal cases from misdemeanors to homicides. She later joined Rogers Towers, where she became a shareholder and focused her civil practice on litigation, including commercial, banking, probate, estate and family law matters.
Salvador received an undergraduate degree from Duke University and a J.D. from the University of Florida Levin College of Law.