Judges›Hillsborough County
Cheryl Thomas
Circuit Judge · Thirteenth Judicial Circuit Court
Current assignment
Circuit Civil — Division A
Courtroom Edgecomb Crt 506
Judicial assistant: Dorothy Gross
Provenance
- Verified from
- Official court page
- Last verified
- July 5, 2026
30-day recheck scheduled; PDF URL is stable but content-dated — monitor hash.
Verified rules for this judge's division
Improperly Filed Emergencies Are Not Emergencies — Circuit Civil A
Judge Thomas: an emergency motion not properly filed with the clerk will not be treated as an emergency — the clerk channel is the only emergency channel.
Zoom Default for Everything but Jury Trials — Circuit Civil A
Judge Cheryl Thomas runs the 13th's strongest civil Zoom default: jury trials in person, everything else — including pretrials and evidentiary hearings — on Zoom unless designated otherwise.
Ruling intelligence
No verified ruling summary yet. BenchPath generates ruling summaries from opinion and docket corpora (CourtListener where covered) and publishes them only after human review — fabricated judicial analytics are exactly what this platform refuses to ship.
Use the live case-law search below to see what exists for this judge today.
Case-law search
CourtListener · free connector · liveCoverage note: CourtListener is strongest for federal courts and state appellate courts. Florida circuit-court opinions are sparsely represented — an absence of results is a coverage gap, not evidence about this judge.
Research connectors
CourtListener
● liveFree Law Project
Free. Opinions, dockets, RECAP, judge metadata. Powering the case-law search on this page.
Westlaw
○ bring your licenseThomson Reuters
Bring your firm's license — enterprise connector queries your judge and related cases inside Westlaw. Phase 2.
LexisNexis
○ bring your licenseRELX
Bring your firm's license — enterprise connector for Lexis+ research tied to your matter. Phase 2.
BenchPath never scrapes licensed databases. Westlaw and LexisNexis connect only through your firm's own credentials and entitlements when the enterprise connectors ship.