Miami-Dade Circuit Judge Bertila Soto has been elected to a second term as chief judge, the first woman and first Hispanic to be chosen the circuit's top administrator.

She ran unopposed for the two-year term in the election decided by circuit and county court judges.

Soto, who became chief judge in 2013, was elected to the bench in 1997 as a county court judge. She served in the domestic violence and misdemeanor jail divisions before being appointed to the circuit bench in 2002 by then-Gov. Jeb Bush.