Justices & Other Branches of Government

Florida Supreme Court Justices who have been elected to office in the legislative or executive branches of state government, as of December 1, 2020.

1.  (2.)  Thomas Baltzell
    Legislative:  Territorial Council; Territorial House; Territorial Senate.
    Executive:  No.

2,  (3.)  George Sydney Hawkins
    Legislative:  Territorial Council; Territorial House; Territorial Senate.
    Executive:  No.

3.  (4.) George W. Macrae
    Legislative:  Territorial Senate.
    Executive:  No.

4.  (5.)  Joseph Lancaster
    Legislative:  State House, Speaker
    Executive:  No.  Mayor of Jacksonville; 1st Mayor of Tampa.

5.  (6.)  Walker Anderson
    Legislative:  Territorial House; Territorial Senate
    Executive:  No.

6.  (7.)  Leslie Atchinson Thompson
    Legislative:  No.
    Executive:  No.  Mayor of Tallahassee.

7.  (8)  Albert Gallatin Semmes
    Legislative:  Yes, House.
    Executive:  No.

8.  (9)  Benjamin Drake Wright
    Legislative:  Yes, Territorial Council and Territorial Senate.
    Executive:  No.

9.  (10.)  Charles H. Dupont
    Legislative:  Yes, Territorial Council and Territorial Senate.
    Executive:  No.

10.  (12.)  William Augustus Forward
    Legislative:  Yes, Territorial Council, Speaker and State House and Senate.
    Executive:  No.

11.  (13.)  David Shelby Walker
    Legislative:  Yes, State House and Senate.
    Executive:  Yes, Governor.  And Tallahassee Mayor

12.  (14.)  Augustus Emmet Maxwell
    Legislative:  Yes, State Senate, and U.S. House.
    Executive:  Yes, Attorney General and Secretary of State

13.  (18.)  Ossian Bingley Hart
    Legislative:  Yes, Territorial House.
    Executive:  Yes, Governor.  After Supreme Court

14.  (19.)  James Diament Westcott, Jr.
    Legislative:  Yes, State House.
    Executive:  Yes, Attorney General.

15.  (21)  Robert Bruce Van Valkenburgh
    Legislative:  Yes, New York State House and New York U.S. House.
    Executive:  No.

16.  (22.)  George Gray McWhorter
    Legislative:  Yes, State House, Speaker.
    Executive:  Yes, Attorney General

17.  (23.)  George Pettus Raney
    Legislative:  Yes, State House.
    Executive:  Yes, Attorney General

18.  (24.)  Henry Laurens Mitchell
    Legislative:  No.
    Executive:  Yes, Governor.  After Supreme Court.

19.  (26.)  Milton Harvey Mabry
    Legislative:  Yes, State House.
    Executive:  Yes, Lieutenant Governor.

20.  (32.)  William Adams Hocker
    Legislative:  Yes, State Senate.
    Executive:  No.

21.  (33.)  James Bryan Whitfield
    Legislative:  No.
    Executive:  Yes, State Treasurer and State Attorney General

22.  (34.)  Charles Breckenridge Parkhill
        Legislative:  Yes, State Senate.
        Executive:  No.

23.  (35.)  William Hull Ellis
    Legislative:  No.
    Executive:  Yes, State Attorney General.

24.  (36.)  Jefferson Beale Browne
    Legislative:  Yes, State House, Speaker.
    Executive:  No.

25.  (37.)  Thomas Franklin West
    Legislative:  Yes, State Senate.
    Executive:  Yes, State Attorney General.

26.  (38.)  William Glenn Terrell
    Legislative:  Yes, House and Senate.
    Executive:  No.

27.  (41.)  Rivers Henderson Buford
    Legislative:  Yes, House and Senate.
    Executive:  Yes, Attorney General.

28.  (42.)  Fred Henry Davis
    Legislative:  Yes, House, Speaker.
    Executive:  Yes, Attorney General.

29.  (50.)  John Elie Mathews
    Legislative:  Yes, House and Senate.
    Executive:  No.

30.  (54.)  Millard Fillmore Caldwell
    Legislative:  Yes, House and U.S. House.
    Executive:  Yes, Governor.

31.  (55.) Richard William Ervin
    Legislative:  No.
    Executive:  Yes, Attorney General.

32.  (66.)  Frederick Brennan Karl
    Legislative:  Yes, Senate.
    Executive:  No.

33.  (82.)  Charles Terrance Canady
    Legislative:  Yes, House and U.S. House.
    Executive:  No.

Research conducted by the Florida Supreme Court Library.