Certified Judicial Need  The Judicial Resource Study is used to measure the Workload of Trial Court Judges ( by providing a weight to each case filing.  Certified Judge need is number Judges needed to handle 100% of weighted filings  The State of Florida for FY has a Certified Judge Need of 33.9 additional Circuit Judges and 48.5 additional County Judges  The 20 th Judicial Circuit for FY has a Certified Judge Need of 3.8 additional Circuit Judges and 3.5 additional County Judges

Judicial Circuit Need By County

∆‘05 to ‘09 Avg. ∆‘05-‘09 ∆‘08 to ∆‘09 Circuit Criminal - Lee 71.2%15.9%-12.0% Circuit Criminal – Collier -22.3%-5.9%-15.3% Circuit Criminal - Charlotte 28.9%7.5%-14.9% Circuit Criminal – Hendry 76.1%16.4%-4.2% Circuit Criminal – Glades 126.3%24.6%41.3% Circuit Crim. – circuitwide 33.9%8.3%-11.8%

∆‘05 to ‘09 Avg. ∆‘05-‘09 ∆‘08 to ∆‘09 Circuit Civil - Lee 70.5%479.4%9.7% Circuit Civil – Collier 59.6%405.2%30.4% Circuit Civil – Charlotte 40.4%211.5%19.1% Circuit Civil – Hendry 23.5%125.7%14.1% Circuit Civil – Glades 14.8%56.3%-3.8% Circuit Civil – circuitwide 61.4%396.3%14.8%

∆‘05 to ’09 Avg. ∆‘05-‘09 ∆‘08 to ∆‘09 UFC – Lee -0.5%0.1%-8.0% UFC – Collier -12.4%-3.2%-6.4% UFC – Charlotte 18.3%5.2%-11.2% UFC – Hendry -10.4%-2.0%4.9% UFC – Glades -16.3%-2.7%-28.4% UFC – circuitwide 11.6%2.9%4.5%

∆‘05 to ’09 Avg. ∆‘05-‘09 ∆‘08 to ∆‘09 Probate Court – Lee -47.9%-14.8%-9.1% Probate Court – Collier -8.6%-2.2%-1.9% Probate Court – Charlotte -42.5%-12.8%-11.0% Probate Court – Hendry -25.8%-5.7%-25.4% Probate Court – Glades -5.4%4.1%-39.7% Circuit Prob. – circuitwide -37.1%-10.8%-5.3%