Hon. Jeffrey R. Levenson

Jeffrey R. Levenson is a criminal division judge serving on Florida's 17th Judicial Circuit Court. Appointed by former Governor Jeb Bush in October 2005, he has held the position since January 2006 and was re-elected in 2008 and 2014, with his current term set to expire January 4, 2021. Levenson earned a B.A. from Johns Hopkins University and a J.D. from the University of Maryland School of Law, and was admitted to the bar in 1981. His early career included work as a trial attorney in the U.S. Department of Justice’s Tax Division in Washington, D.C., and as a state prosecutor in Baltimore, Maryland. In 1989 he relocated to Florida, serving as an assistant U.S. attorney in the Southern District of Florida until 2003, when he was appointed to the Broward County Court. He was elevated to the 17th Circuit Court in 2005 and has since presided over criminal matters.