Supreme Court of Florida
Inquiry Concerning a Judge JQC No. 2024-796 Re: Martha Cannon Adams
May 8, 2025409 So. 3d 1255
Summary
The Supreme Court of Florida accepted the Judicial Qualifications Commission’s stipulation and findings that Judge Martha Cannon Adams violated multiple Canons of Judicial Conduct through biased, impatient, undignified, and discourteous conduct toward State Attorney’s Office personnel. The Court imposed the recommended discipline of a public reprimand, concluding that mitigation—including Judge Adams’s clean disciplinary record, regret, and written apologies—made discipline short of suspension sufficient.