Broward Circuit Judge Lisa Porter announced on Wednesday her plan to resign from the bench after completing a decade as a judge following 20 years as a prosecutor.

But she might not be finished with public service.

Porter, 55, said she will leave office June 30, with plans to spend time with family, work with area charities and possibly consider a new career.

“Perhaps I'll get involved in politics. I don't know. I'll just have to see where the path leads,” Porter said Thursday. “I spent 20 years in the executive branch as a prosecutor, 10 years on the judicial side as a judge. I might, down the road, be interested in exploring the legislative branch.”

Porter serves in Broward's criminal division.

Former Gov. Charlie Crist appointed her in 2008. The judge then won re-election in 2010, and ran unopposed in 2016.

“My career as a public servant has been rewarding beyond all measure,” she wrote in her April 4 resignation letter to Gov. Rick Scott. “I thank the people with whom — and for whom — I have served for this honor.”

Porter's law career started in 1988 in Ocala, where as an assistant State Attorney, she prosecuted high-profile environmental cases involving pesticides, commercial dumping and sewer discharge.

By 2008 she had risen to chief assistant statewide prosecutor in Florida Attorney General's Office of Statewide Prosecution.

She received national attention for her work fighting white-collar crime, including her 1995 pursuit of Mutual Benefits Corp. for a billion-dollar insurance fraud. That case forced the company out of business and inspired an episode of CNBC's “American Greed.”

“The highlight of my career was the Mutual Benefits case,” Porter said. “We worked on the case for five years until we were able to get that company shut down.”

The judge volunteers to mentor young attorneys, and is a past president of B'nai B'rith Justice Unit, a voluntary bar association for Jewish lawyers and judges. She's volunteered for 10 years to teach at University of Florida's prosecutor and public defender trial advocacy program.

Now, Porter says it's time to refocus.

“I feel like I'm still young. I have my health, and I'm young enough to do some other things while I'm able to,” she said. “I'm going to spend some time with family that I haven't been able to see as much as I'd like to. I'd like to get out in nature, breathe some clean air, travel a little bit, and focus on what I'd like to integrate into my life, in terms of service.”