Bryan Rendzio News Today

He previously served as a judge on the 7th Judicial Circuit Court.

Gov. Ron DeSantis appointed attorney Richard Komando to the St. Johns River State College District board of trustees. A former assistant state attorney in the 4th Judicial Circuit, Komando is a partner at Bradley, Garrison & Komando in Orange Park. Komando’s volunteer service includes First Coast Healing Hands, Project Cold Case, Florida’s Children First and the Jacksonville Victims Assistance Advisory Council. He received a bachelor’s degree in criminology and a Master of Business Admini...

And 10 times, Florida governors appointed someone else.  One of those times, in January 2019, then-Gov. Rick Scott appointed Bryan Rendzio. It was the ninth-time Scott had passed Washington over.  In the fall of 2019, Washington was a finalist for a new Flagler County judge seat. But Gov. Ron DeSantis appointed Andrea K. Totten of Bunnell to the judgeship instead. After the setbacks, Washington faced a decision. “It’s been a long, long road and you know you get to a point where you ...

Bryan Rendzio is transitioning in January from his position as 7th Judicial Circuit judge to partner at Ansbacher Law. Appointed to the bench in 2019 by Gov. Ron DeSantis to succeed a judge who died in office, Rendzio lost his bid for a full term in the August primary election. “Mr. Rendzio brings extensive experience as a mediator, arbitrator and jurist to the practice,” said Barry Ansbacher, founder of Ansbacher Law, in a statement from the firm. Ansbacher said Rendzio will chair the firm...

Becoming a judge was not something Kenneth Janesk II thought about when he started his legal career. Janesk, a St. Augustine resident, said in a recent phone interview that his interest in becoming a judge developed after hed practiced law as a prosecutor for a decade or so. “After 10 years of looking at judges almost everyday of your life," Janesk said, "it becomes something that you start to think: “This is something that I’d love to do, I’d like to have their job. I’d love to serv...

Kenny Janesk has been the assistant state attorney’s managing partner at the Putnam County office. (Jennifer Dunton) Gov. Ron DeSantis today, amid a series of judicial appointments, named Kenneth Janesk II of St. Augustine to serve as a circuit court judge in the Seventh Judicial Circuit, which includes Flagler, Volusia, St. Johns and Putnam counties. Janesk has been a prosecutor in the Seventh Circuit State Attorney’s Office since 2011, working as the managing attorney of the Putnam Count...