Navigation Can judges serve in the Florida State Guard?
A judge may serve as a volunteer in the Florida State Guard, with limits, according to the Judicial Ethics Advisory Committee.
The ethics panel acted April 16 in Opinion Number: 2025-09, but not without dissent.
The Florida State Guard (FSG) was re-established in 2022 “to protect and defend the people of Florida from all threats to public safety and to augment all existing state and local agencies [and is] activated only by the Governor, and is at all times under the final command and control of the Governor as commander in chief of all military and guard forces of the state.” The members of the guard are considered volunteers.
