Florida Second District Court of Appeal

The Florida Second District Court of Appeal is headquartered at the Pinellas courthouse in St. Petersburg. It was originally based in Lakeland until the creation of the Florida Sixth District Court of Appeal in January 2023, after which it heard cases in Tampa on the campus of Stetson University College of Law until its new building was completed in February 2026. The Second District covers nine counties with a combined population of over 5 million people: Pasco and Pinellas (6th judicial circuit); Hardee, Highlands, and Polk (10th judicial circuit); DeSoto, Manatee, and Sarasota (12th judicial circuit); and Hillsborough (13th judicial circuit). The counties of Charlotte, Glades, Collier, Hendry, and Lee, formerly part of its territory, became part of the new Florida Sixth District Court of Appeal in January 2023. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/