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Mary Mullinax

PBC County Court Judge — Group 14
Countywide — ran uncontested
Incumbent — ran uncontested
★★★☆☆
113 / 165 points
Integrity & Legal Record
Professional & Business Transparency
Policy & Platform Consistency
Community Engagement & Character
Campaign Transparency
Issue-Based Positions

Incumbent — Won uncontested; from Jupiter, FL; appointed by Gov. Ron DeSantis on 9/5/2024 to the Palm Beach County Court, County Civil Division, filling the remainder of a term expiring January 2027; admitted to the Florida Bar in 2012 (same year she earned her J.D. from Florida International University); sole practitioner at her own firm, Mullinax Law Group, LLC (incorporated March 2020, voluntarily dissolved January 2023); joined the 15th Judicial Circuit in 2021, later selected as General Counsel and Supervising Trial Law Clerk before her judicial appointment

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 "Mary Katherine Mullinax" / "Katherine Mullinax" arrested OR convicted OR indicted — 2026-08-02]`. No adverse nationwide news coverage found; extensive positive coverage of her gubernatorial judicial appointment.

Sources:
  • PBC Clerk of Courts eCaseView — attempted 2026-08-02, blocked by bot-detection before results could be obtained
  • Nationwide Google/news search: "Mary Katherine Mullinax" / "Katherine Mullinax" arrested OR convicted OR lawsuit OR disciplinary — 2026-08-02 — no adverse matches
⚠️ 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. Noted for completeness, not as an adverse finding: she incorporated a solo law practice (Mullinax Law Group, LLC) in March 2020 and voluntarily dissolved it in January 2023, consistent with her transition to full-time employment with the 15th Judicial Circuit (which she joined in 2021) — a routine business wind-down, not indicative of any dispute or distress.

Sources:
  • PBC Clerk of Courts eCaseView — attempted 2026-08-02, blocked by bot-detection before results could be obtained
  • Nationwide Google/news search — 2026-08-02 — no adverse matches found
  • Law.com Daily Business Review — "Meet Katherine Mullinax: Palm Beach's New Judge Appointed by Governor DeSantis" — 2026-08-02 — describes her firm's incorporation and dissolution dates alongside her circuit employment timeline
⚠️ REVIEW FLAG — Same as above; PBC Clerk of Courts civil check incomplete.

Ethics Violations

(Resolved 2026-08-15 — Florida Bar number located.) Florida Bar Member Profile confirmed: listed as "M. Katherine Mullinax," Bar #99446, admitted 9/27/2012, Florida International University College of Law, 15th Judicial Circuit, County Court judicial position, Firm Position "Government attorney." 10-Year Discipline History: None. No Florida Judicial Qualifications Commission (JQC) complaints or PBC Commission on Ethics complaints found.

Sources:
  • Florida Bar Member Profile, Bar #99446 — https://www.floridabar.org/directories/find-mbr/profile/?num=99446 — retrieved 2026-08-15 — "10-Year Discipline History: None"
  • Google/news search: "Katherine Mullinax" ethics complaint OR JQC OR campaign finance violation Palm Beach judge — 2026-08-02 — no adverse matches
  • Palm Beach County Commission on Ethics — https://palmbeachcountyethics.com/complaints.htm — 2026-08-02 — no complaint found
None — fully resolved.

Campaign Finance Violations

No Florida Elections Commission violation records found.

Sources:
  • Florida Elections Commission — https://www.fec.state.fl.us/FECWebFi.nsf/pages/Violations — 2026-08-02 (no name-search capability from landing page)

Residency Confirmed

(Re-verified 2026-08-15 with the now-working PAPA tool.) A full PBC Property Appraiser (PAPA) search — a countywide filter search of all 16 "Mullinax" surname records for "Katherine" — returned zero property records under her name (the 16 records belong to Charles C Mullinax, Mullinax Ford of Palm Beach County LLC (a car dealership, unrelated), and Gabriela Mullinax). 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. She is documented in multiple news sources as being from Jupiter, FL (Palm Beach County), and her current judicial appointment requires county residency.

Sources:
  • Florida Politics — "Katherine Mullinax appointed to Palm Beach County Court" — 2026-08-02 — describes her as being from Jupiter, FL
  • PBC Property Appraiser (PAPA) — owner "Mullinax" — searched 2026-08-15 — 0 results under her name (16 unrelated "Mullinax" property/business records reviewed)
None — no PBC property record found under her name, consistent with renting; not treated as adverse per project methodology. Corroborated by documented Jupiter, FL residence and current judicial service.
  • ⚠️ 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. (Both the PAPA residency check and the Florida Bar number/discipline-history gap were resolved 2026-08-15.)
  • This candidate won re-election uncontested (no opponent filed), so this research exists for voter transparency purposes even though there is no head-to-head comparison for this seat this cycle.
  • 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

Mullinax was sole practitioner/owner of Mullinax Law Group, LLC (incorporated March 2020, voluntarily dissolved January 2023) — already documented in Category 1 as a routine wind-down coinciding with her transition to full-time 15th Judicial Circuit employment (2021 onward). No current business entity was identified, consistent with her present "Government attorney"/judicial status. `[Sunbiz primary-source confirmation NOT COMPLETED — search.sunbiz.org unresponsive this session]`.

Sources:
  • Law.com Daily Business Review — cross-referenced from Category 1 — 2026-08-02
⚠️ REVIEW FLAG — Sunbiz confirmation not completed; recommend a manual recheck of Mullinax Law Group, LLC's dissolution record. Nothing concerning found regardless.

Financial Conflicts of Interest

No government-contract overlap identified beyond her judicial salary. A CourtListener search surfaced 7 results; the top result (Nelsy Patterson v. David Millan Jerez, Fla. 4th DCA 2025) shows her name appearing as the trial-court judge whose small-claims ruling was appealed — a routine professional appearance in her judicial capacity, not a personal financial matter.

Sources:
  • CourtListener (courtlistener.com) — search "Katherine Mullinax" — 2026-08-21 — 7 results, top result reviewed

Bankruptcy History

`[NOT FOUND]`. No personal or business bankruptcy filings apparent, consistent with her firm's voluntary (not distressed) dissolution already documented in Category 1.

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

Tax Liens

`[NOT FOUND]`. No federal or state tax lien records apparent. Per this project's standing methodology, tax liens are inconsistently indexed online regardless.

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

Board Memberships

`[NOT FOUND — searched: nationwide Google/news search "Katherine Mullinax" board member nonprofit director bar association committee — 2026-08-21]`. No outside board membership identified.

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

Policy & Platform Consistency 16 / 20

Voting Record

`[NO POLICY VOTING RECORD APPLICABLE — JUDICIAL CANDIDATE]`. Mullinax was appointed by Gov. DeSantis on 9/5/2024, running uncontested in 2026. Her pre-bench record includes 15th Judicial Circuit service (2021 onward), General Counsel and Supervising Trial Law Clerk roles, and sole practice at Mullinax Law Group, LLC (2020–2023, already documented in Category 1/2 as a routine wind-down). A CourtListener appearance (Nelsy Patterson v. David Millan Jerez, Fla. 4th DCA 2025, already documented in Category 2) shows her acting in her routine judicial capacity as a trial-court judge whose small-claims ruling was appealed — not a policy matter. No case-outcome-based campaigning was found, consistent with canon compliance.

Sources:
  • Law.com Daily Business Review — "Meet Katherine Mullinax: Palm Beach's New Judge Appointed by Governor DeSantis" (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 "Katherine Mullinax" judge controversy reversal — 2026-08-21]`. No documented controversy or reversal was identified.

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

Endorsements

`[Endorsements — NOT FOUND — 2026-08-21]`. No specific 2026 endorsement was located for this uncontested race; her 2024 gubernatorial appointment itself reflects institutional confidence.

Sources:
  • Nationwide Google/news search — 2026-08-21 — no matches
  • Judicial special-case methodology applied (Canon 7 compliance), consistent with Corlew_Reginald.md, DiGangi_Santo.md, and Noble_Jacob.md.
  • Survey cross-reference could not be completed this pass — no survey response is on file for this candidate.
  • This is the final candidate in the project's roster to receive Category 3 research this pass. Category 3 (Policy & Platform Consistency) is now COMPLETE project-wide across the entire candidate roster (U.S. Senate through Palm Beach County local/judicial races), pending only the follow-up items individually flagged throughout (e.g., Uthmeier_James's Cat2 addendum, Baxter_Sara's Cat2 addendum, Garcia_Luis's business-name verification).

Community Engagement & Character 12 / 25

Community Involvement

Mullinax is documented as an active supporter of her sons' flag football teams and personally volunteers as a coach for her sons' soccer team — a sustained, personal, hands-on youth-sports volunteer commitment independent of her judicial role.

Sources:
  • Law.com Daily Business Review — "Meet Katherine Mullinax: Palm Beach's New Judge Appointed by Governor DeSantis" — 2026-08-24

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; she is running uncontested.

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

Social Media Presence & Consistency

`[NOT FOUND — no dedicated personal or campaign social media account independently located this session — searched: nationwide Google/news search "Katherine Mullinax" judge Facebook Twitter — 2026-08-24]`. Her 15th Circuit judge page and Palm Beach County Bar Association profile are her primary public-facing presence.

Sources:
  • 15thcircuit.com — judge profile — 2026-08-24
  • No adverse findings; Community Involvement score reflects a specific, personal youth-sports volunteer commitment.
  • Category 4 (Community Engagement & Character) is now COMPLETE project-wide (U.S. Senate through Palm Beach County local/judicial races), pending only individually-flagged follow-up items throughout (Sunbiz rechecks, PBC Clerk of Courts rechecks, Green_Jackie's veteran-claim verification, Category 2 addenda for Nixon_Angie and Edmonds_Jervonte).
  • Survey cross-reference could not be completed this pass — no survey response is on file for this candidate.

Campaign Transparency 18 / 25

Top Donors / Donor Composition

`[NOT FOUND — no dollar-figure fundraising totals located this session — one aggregator listed her campaign-finance status as "INACTIVE," consistent with an uncontested race requiring no active fundraising — searched: VoterFocus, Your Florida Judges — 2026-08-26]`.

Sources:
  • WhosRunning.app — Palm Beach County Candidates 2026 — 2026-08-26
None — data gap, not adverse.

PAC / LLC / Funneling Structures

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

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

Advertising Spend

`[NOT FOUND — searched: Palm Beach County campaign finance records — 2026-08-26]`. Given her uncontested status, spending needs would be minimal.

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 "Katherine Mullinax" judge campaign volunteer 2026 — 2026-08-26]`. Consistent with her uncontested status.

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 adverse findings; minimal-to-no campaign-finance activity consistent with an uncontested judicial race.
  • 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, consistent with her INACTIVE campaign-finance status and uncontested race — scored 3 per protocol for each — sources searched: campaign materials, nationwide news search — 2026-08-26]`.

Sources:
  • Nationwide Google/news search — 2026-08-26 — no matches (consistent with judicial-ethics constraints)
  • 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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