Courthouses in Flagler, Putnam, St. Johns, and Volusia counties will be closed Monday, Sept. 1, in observance of Labor Day.
Flagler County Court Judge D. Melissa Distler was elected to the bench in 2013. She earned her undergraduate degree, magna cum laude, from Florida Atlantic University and her juris doctor, cum laude, from the University of Florida. Judge Distler was admitted to The Florida Bar in 1998. She previously served as an assistant state attorney in the Seventh Judicial Circuit and later practiced criminal defense and family law. She is Board Certified in Criminal Trial Law and currently presides over the County Criminal and Juvenile Delinquency dockets at the Kim C. Hammond Justice Center.
Judge Distler currently serves as President of the Conference of County Court Judges of Florida and is a faculty member at Florida Judicial College, the Traffic Adjudication Lab, and other judicial education conferences.
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