Judge Lee E. Haworth was born and raised in our area. After attending law school, he went to work for the State Prosecu
tor’s office where he became chief prosecutor in just four years, and went on to join the Circuit Court bench. Then came the first Gulf War. During that conflict, Judge Haworth, a lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Army Reserve, was deployed to Kuwait City (an active war zone) to help repatriate prisoners of war through Saudi Arabia and back to Iraq, where they would be tried for their crimes.
Following the first Gulf war, he returned to Florida and resumed a “normal” career as a Circuit Court Judge until the 2007 recession hit. He was appointed Chief Judge during the recession.
Some of the cases Judge Haworth worked on when he was an Assistant State Attorney were for John Waterman, John Troy, the Glen Chambers Walker family murders, and Henry Lorenzo Payne.
