Torea Spohr Removed

Torea Spohr, a Circuit Judge for Florida's 10th Judicial Circuit in Polk County, resigned in a letter to Governor Ron DeSantis dated April 29, 2025, effective July 15, giving no stated reason. Her sudden absence from the bench began the same day the letter was dated, prompting Chief Judge James Yancey to reassign her felony division to Circuit Judge Jalal Harb.

About a month before her resignation, Florida's Sixth District Court of Appeal had removed Spohr from a child custody case, ruling that she had demonstrated bias and a disregard for state law, and finding that she had repeatedly defied the appellate court's own orders in the matter. Spohr, first elected in 2020, had no prior disciplinary history before this episode.