Judge Davis serves as a Judge of the Circuit Court for the Seventeenth Judicial Circuit in Fort Lauderdale since 2018. Judge Davis currently presides in the General Civil Division, having previously served in both the Felony Criminal Division (2021-25) and Family Division (2018-21), as well as presiding over the Broward County Grand Jury for the July-December 2022 term. Since 2023, Judge Davis also serves as a member of the faculty at the Florida Judicial College, teaching in the area of Florida search and seizure law.

In the decade prior to the bench, Judge Davis served as an Assistant Statewide Prosecutor and Special Assistant United States Attorney in the City of Miami, investigating and prosecuting organized crime, public corruption, drug-trafficking, complex frauds, and money-laundering offenses throughout the State of Florida, as well as serving as an Assistant State Attorney and/or Special Assistant State Attorney in and for the 11th, 15th, 17th, and 20th Judicial Circuits. Prior to entering government service, Judge Davis represented clients in private practice, in matters concerning commercial litigation and real property throughout South Florida.

A native of Chapel Hill, North Carolina, Judge Davis received his undergraduate degree from the University of North Carolina in his hometown. He received his Juris Doctor from Washington & Lee University, in Lexington, Virginia, before earning a Master of Laws in Maritime Law from the University of Miami, in Coral Gables.

In his time away from the bench, Judge Davis shares his passion for the United States Constitution and the Florida Constitution as an Adjunct Professor of Constitutional Law at St. Thomas University College of Law. Judge Davis has also been invited to speak at many legal education programs on diverse subjects such as racketeering investigations and prosecutions to Anglo-American legal history, mediation, and the use of technology in trial practice.

Judge Davis is a member of numerous voluntary Bar and service organizations, including the Dade and Broward County Bar Associations and currently serves as a Judicial Liaison to the Broward Young Lawyers’ Division.