{"id":989,"date":"2026-09-13T17:07:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-13T17:07:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oddusee.com\/tampa\/cpt_politics\/shawn-crane-chief-judge-sixth-judicial-circuit-of-florida-pinellas-and-pasco-counties\/"},"modified":"2026-09-13T17:07:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-13T17:07:10","slug":"shawn-crane-chief-judge-sixth-judicial-circuit-of-florida-pinellas-and-pasco-counties","status":"publish","type":"cpt_politics","link":"https:\/\/oddusee.com\/tampa\/politics\/shawn-crane-chief-judge-sixth-judicial-circuit-of-florida-pinellas-and-pasco-counties\/","title":{"rendered":"Shawn Crane"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shawn Crane is the Chief Judge, Sixth Judicial Circuit of Florida (Pinellas and Pasco Counties). The chief judge is the administrative head of the circuit, assigning judges to divisions such as criminal, civil, family and probate, setting court policy, and managing court operations across both Pinellas and Pasco counties. He remains a sitting circuit judge hearing cases, and he is the link between the local courts and the Florida Supreme Court.<\/p>\n<p>Chief judges are elected by the circuit&#8217;s own judges, not by voters, and serve two-year administrative terms. COULD NOT CONFIRM the current term start and end dates from the circuit&#8217;s official site. The chief judge position itself is NOT on the ballot November 3, 2026.<\/p>\n<h3>Notes<\/h3>\n<p>The Sixth Judicial Circuit covers Pinellas and Pasco counties. Name and the two-county scope taken directly from the circuit&#8217;s official Chief Judge page.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shawn Crane is the Chief Judge, Sixth Judicial Circuit of Florida (Pinellas and Pasco Counties). The chief judge is the administrative head of the circuit, assigning judges to divisions such as criminal, civil, family and probate, setting court policy, and managing court operations across both Pinellas and Pasco counties. He[&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":990,"menu_order":1303,"template":"","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"wds_primary_politics-category":0},"politics-category":[],"class_list":["post-989","cpt_politics","type-cpt_politics","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddusee.com\/tampa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cpt_politics\/989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddusee.com\/tampa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cpt_politics"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddusee.com\/tampa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/cpt_politics"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oddusee.com\/tampa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddusee.com\/tampa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"politics-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oddusee.com\/tampa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/politics-category?post=989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}