JUDGE MANEY RETIRING

Okaloosa County Judge Patt Maney is retiring. He will put down his gavel in May on the day before he reaches 70, the state mandated retirement age for judges. Maney leaves after 29 years of service, the longest serving county or circuit judge in Florida’s First Judicial Circuit. He was appointed to the bench on May 19, 1989, by then-Governor Bob Martinez. Governor Rick Scott will choose a new judge from a list of finalists selected by the First Judicial Circuit Judicial Nominating Committee.