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Jacob Noble

PBC County Court Judge — Group 12
Countywide — decided outright in the primary, no November race
Elected — won outright in primary (55.82%)
★★★☆☆
112 / 165 points
Integrity & Legal Record
Professional & Business Transparency
Policy & Platform Consistency
Community Engagement & Character
Campaign Transparency
Issue-Based Positions

Challenger (attorney; Assistant Public Defender in Palm Beach County 2004–2007, tried 40+ jury trials; founded private practice, Noble Law, in 2007, focused on criminal and elder law; endorsed by the Palm Beach County Police Benevolent Association; running against Schnelle Tonge)

Last updated: 2026-08-21

Every candidate is researched identically across six categories using only public records and candidate-submitted information. No candidate is endorsed. Read the full methodology.

Integrity & Legal Record 22 / 25

Criminal History

`[NOT FOUND — searched: PBC Clerk of Courts eCaseView (blocked, incomplete), nationwide Google/news search "Jacob Noble" attorney arrested OR convicted OR indicted — 2026-07-31]`. No adverse nationwide news coverage found.

Sources:
  • PBC Clerk of Courts eCaseView — attempted 2026-07-31, blocked by bot-detection before results could be obtained
  • Nationwide Google/news search: "Jacob Noble" attorney arrested OR convicted OR lawsuit OR indicted OR sued OR disciplinary Palm Beach — 2026-07-31 — no adverse matches for this individual
  • Florida Bar Member Profile — https://www.floridabar.org/directories/find-mbr/profile/?num=711411 — 2026-07-31 — "10-Year Discipline History: None"
⚠️ REVIEW FLAG — PBC Clerk of Courts check incomplete due to tooling block; recommend manual follow-up before scorecard finalization.

Civil Court History

Same tooling limitation as above; a full PBC Clerk of Courts civil case check could not be completed. No adverse civil litigation found via nationwide news search.

Sources:
  • PBC Clerk of Courts eCaseView — attempted 2026-07-31, blocked by bot-detection before results could be obtained
  • Nationwide Google/news search — 2026-07-31 — no adverse matches found
⚠️ REVIEW FLAG — Same as above; PBC Clerk of Courts civil check incomplete.

Ethics Violations

No PBC Commission on Ethics complaints found. His Florida Bar record shows a clean 10-year discipline history across 21 years of practice.

Sources:
  • Florida Bar Member Profile — https://www.floridabar.org/directories/find-mbr/profile/?num=711411 — 2026-07-31 — "10-Year Discipline History: None"
  • Palm Beach County Commission on Ethics — https://palmbeachcountyethics.com/complaints.htm — 2026-07-31 — no complaint found

Campaign Finance Violations

No Florida Elections Commission violation records found.

Sources:
  • Florida Elections Commission — https://www.fec.state.fl.us/FECWebFi.nsf/pages/Violations — 2026-07-31 (no name-search capability from landing page)
  • Google/news search: "Jacob Noble" Palm Beach judge candidate campaign finance violation OR ethics complaint — 2026-07-31 — no relevant results

Residency Confirmed

(Re-verified 2026-08-15 with the now-working PAPA tool.) A full PBC Property Appraiser (PAPA) search — both direct owner-name queries ("Noble Jacob," "Noble Jacob M") and a filter search of all 334 "Noble" surname records countywide for "Jacob" — returned zero property records under his name. This is a confirmed negative result from a working search (not a tooling failure), consistent with renting rather than owning property, which is not treated as adverse per this project's privacy-respectful residency methodology. His Florida Bar Member Profile lists his official mailing/business address as 3801 PGA Blvd Ste 600, Palm Beach Gardens, FL 33410 — his law firm's address, within Palm Beach County, though not confirmed as his personal residence. His campaign biography describes him as a Palm Beach County resident since 2003.

Sources:
  • Florida Bar Member Profile — https://www.floridabar.org/directories/find-mbr/profile/?num=711411 — 2026-07-31 — business address in Palm Beach Gardens, FL
  • Campaign website — https://noble4judge.org/about — 2026-07-31 — "has called Palm Beach County home since 2003"
  • PBC Property Appraiser (PAPA) — owner "Noble Jacob"/"Noble Jacob M" — searched 2026-08-15 — 0 results; countywide "Noble" filter (334 records) searched for "Jacob" — 0 matches
None — no PBC property record found under his name, consistent with renting; not treated as adverse per project methodology. Corroborated by documented 2003+ PBC residency and Bar-listed business address.
  • ⚠️ REVIEW FLAG (remaining): PBC Clerk of Courts check remains blocked by a persistent tooling issue (reCAPTCHA/bot-detection) documented throughout this session. Recommend manual follow-up before scorecard finalization. (PAPA residency check re-verified 2026-08-15 — confirmed genuine absence of a property record, likely renting, not a tooling failure; not treated as adverse.)
  • Investigated and ruled out: "Joseph Jacob Noble" (California Bar #235667) — a different, unrelated attorney.
  • Survey cross-reference could not be completed this pass — no survey response is on file for this candidate per the roster, and the CIVICS Disclosure Survey PDF answers have not yet been extracted/indexed per-candidate in general.

Professional & Business Transparency 21 / 25

Business Ownership

Noble founded Noble Law in 2007, a private practice focused on criminal defense and elder law, following three years (2004–2007) as a PBC Assistant Public Defender trying 40+ jury trials. `[Sunbiz primary-source confirmation NOT COMPLETED — search.sunbiz.org unresponsive this session; "Noble Law" is also too generic an entity name to reliably disambiguate via name-only search regardless]`.

Sources:
  • Campaign website (noble4judge.org) — "About" — cross-referenced from Category 1 — 2026-07-31
  • Florida Bar Member Profile — Bar #711411 — cross-referenced from Category 1 — 2026-07-31
⚠️ REVIEW FLAG — Sunbiz confirmation not completed; recommend a manual recheck of Noble Law's specific corporate registration (ideally via document number once his firm's exact registered name/document number is known, given the entity name's genericness).

Financial Conflicts of Interest

No government-contract overlap identified. A criminal-defense/elder-law private practice has no apparent nexus to county judicial-race contracting; as a judicial candidate he has never held elected office.

Sources:
  • Nationwide Google/news search: "Jacob Noble" Palm Beach government contract — 2026-08-21 — no matches

Bankruptcy History

`[NOT FOUND]`. No personal or business bankruptcy filings located.

Sources:
  • CourtListener (courtlistener.com) — search "Jacob Noble" "Noble Law" — 2026-08-21 — 0 results

Tax Liens

`[NOT FOUND]`. No federal or state tax lien records located. Per this project's standing methodology, tax liens are inconsistently indexed online, so this absence of results is not presented as a confirmed clean record.

Sources:
  • CourtListener (courtlistener.com) — same search as above — 2026-08-21 — 0 results

Board Memberships

`[NOT FOUND — searched: nationwide Google/news search "Jacob Noble" attorney board member nonprofit director — 2026-08-21]`. No outside board membership identified beyond his PBC Police Benevolent Association endorsement (an endorsement, not a board seat).

Sources:
  • Nationwide Google/news search — 2026-08-21 — no matches
  • ⚠️ TOOLING BLOCK: Sunbiz unresponsive this session (2 attempts); recommend a manual recheck of Noble Law's corporate registration.
  • Survey cross-reference could not be completed this pass — no survey response is on file for this candidate.

Policy & Platform Consistency 18 / 20

Voting Record

`[NO POLICY VOTING RECORD APPLICABLE — JUDICIAL CANDIDATE]`. Noble is a non-incumbent for this specific judicial seat, with a substantive professional record: Assistant Public Defender (2004–2007, 40+ jury trials), founder of Noble Law (2007–present, criminal defense and elder law). He won the seat outright in the 8/18/2026 primary against Schnelle Tonge with 55.83% (a majority, no November race). No case-outcome-based campaigning was found, consistent with canon compliance.

Sources:
  • noble4judge.org — campaign biography (cross-referenced from Category 1) — 2026-08-21
None — judicial canon compliance, not a transparency gap.

Position Consistency

`[NOT APPLICABLE — JUDICIAL CANDIDATE, CANON COMPLIANCE]`. No policy positions are stated.

Sources:
  • N/A

Flip-Flops

`[NOT FOUND — searched: nationwide Google/news search "Jacob Noble" judge controversy reversal — 2026-08-21]`. No documented controversy or reversal was identified.

Sources:
  • Nationwide Google/news search — 2026-08-21 — no matches

Endorsements

Received: The Palm Beach County Police Benevolent Association (already noted in his profile summary). `[A comprehensive endorsements-received list beyond this was NOT FOUND; Endorsements given — NOT FOUND — 2026-08-21]`.

Sources:
  • noble4judge.org — cross-referenced from candidate profile — 2026-08-21
  • Judicial special-case methodology applied (Canon 7 compliance), consistent with Corlew_Reginald.md and DiGangi_Santo.md.
  • Survey cross-reference could not be completed this pass — no survey response is on file for this candidate.

Community Engagement & Character 11 / 25

Community Involvement

`[NOT FOUND — no specific community organization or volunteer role found beyond his Police Benevolent Association endorsement (already documented in Category 3 as an endorsement, not a community role) — searched: nationwide Google/news search "Jacob Noble" judge volunteer community organization Palm Beach Gardens — 2026-08-24]`.

Sources:
  • Nationwide Google/news search — 2026-08-24 — no matches

Veteran / First Responder Service

`[NOT FOUND]`. No veteran or first-responder service identified.

Sources:
  • Nationwide Google/news search — 2026-08-24 — no matches

Faith-Based Involvement (scored on character consistency)

`[NOT FOUND]`. No personal faith-community affiliation identified. Per methodology, absence is not scored negatively.

Sources:
  • Nationwide Google/news search — 2026-08-24 — no matches

Debates / Town Halls

`[NOT FOUND]`. No specific debate or town hall record located this session; he won outright in the 8/18/2026 primary (55.83%, majority), so no November race occurred.

Sources:
  • Nationwide Google/news search — 2026-08-24 — no matches

Social Media Presence & Consistency

Active Facebook campaign page ("Jacob Noble for Palm Beach County Court Judge, Group 12"), plus a campaign website (noble4judge.org). No controversial or inconsistent posts identified.

Sources:
  • facebook.com/JacobNobleForJudge — 2026-08-24
  • noble4judge.org — 2026-08-24
  • No adverse findings.
  • Survey cross-reference could not be completed this pass — no survey response is on file for this candidate.

Campaign Transparency 16 / 25

Top Donors / Donor Composition

`[Specific total-raised figures NOT FOUND this session — VoterFocus confirms financial reports are on file but figures were not returned in search results — searched: VoterFocus, FloridaMoneyWatch — 2026-08-26]`.

Sources:
  • VoterFocus — Jacob M. Noble candidate campaign finance page — 2026-08-26
None — data gap, not adverse.

PAC / LLC / Funneling Structures

⚠️ CROSS-REFERENCE: as documented in Category 3, the Palm Beach County Police Benevolent Association endorsed Noble — an organizational endorsement, not confirmed as a direct PAC financial contribution this session. `[NOT FOUND — searched: VoterFocus — 2026-08-26]`.

Sources:
  • Cross-referenced from Category 3 — 2026-08-26

Advertising Spend

`[NOT FOUND — searched: VoterFocus — 2026-08-26]`.

Sources:
  • Nationwide Google/news search — 2026-08-26 — no matches

Grassroots Engagement

`[No documented door-knocking, phone-banking, or in-person voter-contact ground game located — searched: nationwide Google/news search "Jacob Noble" judge campaign volunteer 2026 — 2026-08-26]`. He won outright in the 8/18/2026 primary.

Sources:
  • Nationwide Google/news search — 2026-08-26 — no matches

Donations to Political Figures

`[NOT FOUND — searched: VoterFocus, nationwide Google/news search — 2026-08-26]`.

Sources:
  • Nationwide Google/news search — 2026-08-26 — no matches
  • No campaign-finance dollar figures were locatable this session; recommend a direct VoterFocus follow-up.
  • Survey cross-reference could not be completed this pass — no survey response is on file for this candidate.

Issue-Based Positions 24 / 40

2A through Environment/Everglades (all 8 metrics)

`[NO STATED POSITION — Canon 7 judicial-ethics compliance; no issue positions were found or expected — scored 3 per protocol for each, consistent with the Cat3 judicial special-case treatment — sources searched: noble4judge.org, campaign materials, nationwide news search — 2026-08-26]`. Campaign messaging focuses exclusively on legal qualifications (20+ years' experience, civil and criminal trial experience, PBA endorsement) rather than any policy position.

Sources:
  • noble4judge.org — 2026-08-26
  • All eight metrics scored neutral (3) as a judicial-ethics requirement under Canon 7, not a data gap — consistent with the Cat3 special-case treatment already applied to this candidate.
  • Survey cross-reference could not be completed this pass — no survey response is on file for this candidate.

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