Barbara Hobbs

Hobbs faces additional consequences for ethical breaches she made when her son faced a criminal charge in 2019.

A Tallahassee-area circuit judge told the Florida Supreme Court on Tuesday that she does not oppose a 60-day suspension without pay after she improperly acted as an attorney for her son following his arrest in a shooting incident.

A state investigative panel is alleging wrongdoing by a Leon County circuit judge who acted as her son’s attorney after he was arrested in a shooting incident. Judge Barbara Hobbs faces a series of allegations that she violated judicial canons.