Jennifer D. Bailey
American judge
Jennifer Drechsel Bailey is a retired American judge who served for 30 years in Florida's Eleventh Judicial Circuit Court in Miami-Dade County. She is recognized nationally, statewide, and locally for her work on improving justice in the civil litigation system through studying, understanding, and implementing effective changes to court and judicial case management.
Judicial service
Bailey was elected as a judge to Florida's Eleventh Judicial Circuit Court in 1992, and began serving in 1993. Florida's circuit courts are trial level courts of general jurisdiction. Bailey was reelected multiple times to the Miami-based circuit court, and served until her retirement in November 2023.
Bailey served in the family, criminal, and civil divisions, and has been administrative judge of the civil division and the general jurisdiction division. She also served in the Complex Business Litigation Division, a specialized business court program with a jurisdiction limited to complex business and commercial disputes. In addition to being assigned as a specialist business court judge, Bailey was later designated as a judge to a specialized docket having jurisdiction over construction defect cases. In 2013, Chief Administrative Judge Bertila Soto issued an order creating the International Commercial Arbitration subsection within the Complex Business Litigation section. Bailey was named as one of the two original judges in this new court program.
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