John L. Badalamenti

John Leonard Badalamenti (born 1973) is a Florida judge and is a nominee to be a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida.

Badalamenti received a Bachelor of Arts, with highest honors, a Master of Arts, and a Juris Doctor, with honors, from the University of Florida. He began his career as a U.S. Department of Justice Honors Attorney, serving as an attorney-advisor at the Federal Bureau of Prisons. He then clerked for Judges Frank M. Hull and Paul H. Roney of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. Badalamenti was also an associate at Carlton Fields, P.A. Prior to his appointment by Governor Rick Scott to the Florida Second District Court of Appeal in 2015, he served for nearly a decade as an Assistant Federal Public Defender in the Middle District of Florida. He is an Eagle Scout and serves as a volunteer for the Boy Scouts of America.

He was counsel of record, authored the petition for writ of certiorari, and presented oral argument in the Supreme Court of the United States for the prevailing petitioner in Yates v. United States (2015), 135 S. Ct. 1074 (2015) (holding that a fish is not a "tangible object" under a criminal provision, 18 U.S.C. § 1519, of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002).

On December 23, 2019, President Trump announced his intent to nominate Badalamenti to serve as a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida. On February 4, 2020, his nomination was sent to the United States Senate. President Trump nominated Badalamenti to the seat vacated by Judge Elizabeth A. Kovachevich, who took senior status on December 14, 2018. A hearing on his nomination before the Senate Judiciary Committee was held on February 12, 2020. On March 12, 2020, his nomination was reported out of committee by a 15–6 vote. His nomination is currently pending before the full United States Senate.