The Judicial Nominating Commission has selected 15 South Florida finalists to fill three open seats on the Miami-Dade Circuit bench after Judge Francis Renatha was appointed to the Palm Beach Circuit and Judges John W. Thornton Jr. and Diane Ward announced their resignations.

Those who made the cut: seven county court judges, three prosecutors, a public defender, a criminal defense attorney, a civil litigator, a general magistrate—and one former Miami-Dade Circuit judge hoping to return.

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