Judge Sharon I. Hamilton

County Judge of Monroe County

Sixteenth Judicial Circuit

Plantation Key Government Center

88770 Overseas Highway

Suite 1

Tavernier, Florida 33070

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Education

• BA at Flagler College, St. Augustine, Florida 1985

• Juris Doctorate from Nova University Law School, cum laude 1988
  

Judicial and Quasi-Judicial Experience

• Elected to the County Court bench in 2016
• Assigned all County Court cases in the Plantation Key Division and
• Acting Circuit Judge for Dependency, Family, Domestic Violence, Probate
• And Duty Judge assignment
• Served in a quasi-judicial capacity as a magistrate from 2005-2015
  

Legal Experience

• Private practice in Monroe County, Florida since 1989
• Areas of practice: family, civil, criminal, juvenile, dependency, mental health and probate at the county and circuit levels
• Served as General Counsel for the 16^th Judicial Circuit

• Served as the Director of Judicial Case Management for the 16^th Judicial Circuit
  

Association

• Served on the Community Based Care Board for the children of Monroe County

• Served on the 16^th Circuit Juvenile Justice Advisory Board for Monroe County

• Served on the Community Based Care Board for Dade and Monroe County

• 16^th Judicial Circuit Representative for the Committee on Professionalism

• Member American Business Women’s Association