--- title: "Kathryn Kimball Mizelle | KnowJudges" canonical: "https://knowjudges.com/kyj/judge/kathryn-kimball-mizelle" page_type: "judge_profile" updated: "2026-10-09" --- # Kathryn Kimball Mizelle U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida · Judge ## Profile - Court: U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida - State: Florida - Role: Judge - Service status: active - Last verified: 2026-07-25 ## Summary Official statewide and applicable court procedural guidance applies to this judge. ## Biography ### Professional career - Adjunct professor, University of Florida Frederic G. Levin College of Law, 2020 - Law clerk, Hon. Clarence Thomas, Supreme Court of the United States, 2018-2019 - Justice Clarence Thomas (U.S. Supreme Court) — 2018–2019 - Law clerk, Hon. Gregory G. Katsas, U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, 2018 - Counsel to the associate attorney general, U.S. Department of Justice (on detail), 2017-2018 - Trial attorney, Southern Criminal Enforcement Section, Tax Division, U.S. Department of Justice, 2014-2017 - Special assistant U.S. attorney, Eastern District of Virginia (on detail), 2014-2015 - Law clerk, Hon. William H. Pryor, Jr., U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, 2013-2014 - Law clerk, Hon. James S. Moody, Jr., U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida, 2012-2013 - She is also an adjunct professor at the University of Florida Levin College of Law and George Mason University’s Antonin Scalia Law School ### Education - University of Florida Fredric G. Levin College of Law — J.D. (2012) ### Additional information - President Trump nominated Mizelle on September 8, 2020; the Senate confirmed her November 18, 2020, by a 49–41 vote. - Private practice, Washington, D.C., 2019-2020 - From 2019–2020, she was an associate at Jones Day - Born August 14, 1987 in Lakeland, Florida, Mizelle graduated from Lakeland Christian School in 2005, then obtained a B.A. in economics (summa cum laude) with a minor in philosophy from Covenant College in 2009. - Date of birth: 1987 - handling complex civil, criminal, and appellate litigation. - Birth place: Lakeland ## Before you appear - Read the judge-specific standing order first when one is listed. - Check the docket and case orders for requirements that supersede broader guidance. - Confirm current remote-access and courtroom technology arrangements before the proceeding. ## Courtroom Rules ### civil remote testimony Scope: courtwide In federal district-court civil proceedings, testimony is ordinarily taken in open court; remote contemporaneous testimony requires good cause in compelling circumstances and appropriate safeguards. Evidence excerpt: For good cause in compelling circumstances and with appropriate safeguards, the court may permit testimony in open court by contemporaneous transmission from a different location. [Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 43(a), Testimony in Open Court](https://www.uscourts.gov/forms-rules/current-rules-practice-procedure/federal-rules-civil-procedure) Source checked: 2026-07-26 ### criminal recording and broadcasting Scope: courtwide Federal district courts may not permit courtroom photography or broadcasting during criminal judicial proceedings unless a statute or another federal rule provides an exception. Evidence excerpt: Except as otherwise provided by a statute or these rules, the court must not permit the taking of photographs in the courtroom during judicial proceedings or the broadcasting of judicial proceedings from the courtroom. [Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 53, Courtroom Photographing and Broadcasting Prohibited](https://www.uscourts.gov/court-records/access-court-proceedings/remote-public-access-proceedings/history-cameras-broadcasting-and-remote-public-access-courts) Source checked: 2026-07-26 ## Sources - [Official profile](https://www.fjc.gov/node/9219166) - [Official roster](https://www.fjc.gov/node/9219166) - [Federal Judicial Center biography](https://www.fjc.gov/node/9219166) - [Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 43(a), Testimony in Open Court](https://www.uscourts.gov/forms-rules/current-rules-practice-procedure/federal-rules-civil-procedure) - [Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 53, Courtroom Photographing and Broadcasting Prohibited](https://www.uscourts.gov/court-records/access-court-proceedings/remote-public-access-proceedings/history-cameras-broadcasting-and-remote-public-access-courts) - [Judge Kathryn Kimball Mizelle](https://www.fjc.gov/node/9219166) - [Wikidata: Kathryn Kimball Mizelle](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q98310252) ## JSON-LD ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "WebPage", "@id": "https://knowjudges.com/kyj/judge/kathryn-kimball-mizelle", "url": "https://knowjudges.com/kyj/judge/kathryn-kimball-mizelle", "name": "Kathryn Kimball Mizelle | KnowJudges", "description": "Kathryn Kimball Mizelle, U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida. 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Section-specific exceptions, waivers, later amendments and case orders remain applicable. This is a source excerpt, not an exhaustive statement of the rule. [Official source](https://www.uscourts.gov/sites/default/files/document/federal-rules-of-civil-procedure.pdf). Collected 2026-10-27. - [Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure, December 1, 2025](https://knowjudges.com/courtroom-rules/national-shared-set-8721a344fececced2257fe1d) — Criminal proceedings in United States District Courts; this conservative mapping does not distribute appellate-specific provisions to appellate judges. Section-specific exceptions, waivers, later amendments and case orders remain applicable. This is a source excerpt, not an exhaustive statement of the rule. [Official source](https://www.uscourts.gov/sites/default/files/document/federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure.pdf). Collected 2026-10-27.