Without naming names, NixingJustice zeroes in on one of Nix's instrumental friendships, suggesting a quid pro quo situation. Nix refused to recuse herself from her friend's divorce proceedings when there were accusations of domestic abuse because this friend had helped her get elected.

“She owed him her career — and she paid him back with favorable treatment in his divorce,” the site declares.

Nix dismissed the site as "nothing more than a smear tactic." VoxPopuli spoke to Nix during two phone calls Sunday as she managed appearances at the Orange County jail. She said that the site keeps popping up with different URLs — four or five to date by her count. She continues petitioning to have them taken down. She said NixingJustice would be offline by the afternoon, but it was still live on Monday.

Meanwhile, she said she had no idea which divorced friend the site was referring to, though she noted that her name is "associated with" her opponent Charles Hart. "I'm the assigned judge for his divorce or his dissolution of marriage that took place," she said.

"That's an absolute lie," said John Ashton, campaign manager and treasurer for Hart's campaign. He acknowledged that Nix's name is attached to the case in the Orange County Clerk of Courts records system because she took over for the previous judge. But he told VoxPopuli Monday that Hart's divorce was finalized in 2019 — two years before Nix was on the bench. "Let's see her signature on the [divorce] papers," Ashton said in a phone interview. "We've been trying to get that changed." He said neither Hart nor his campaign was behind the NixingJustice site.

Money trouble

The site also claims that Nix is “nearly $600,00 in debt and near the verge of foreclosure.” According to her 2025 financial disclosure form, however, Nix is actually carrying $1.2 million in liabilities, including three mortgages and more than $120,000 in student loans. She earns $187,038.56 as a judge and $20,000 annually in rental income.

Mortgage documents show that Nix and her husband Shands U. Walker took out a $595,200 loan in November 2024 for a home in Apopka near the Wekiva Springs State Park. The site links to court documents that state that Nix and Walker stopped making payments on the Apopka home in August 2025 and currently owe $$591,086.84. Documents also show that Nix separately signed a promissory note for the entire mortgage amount in November 2024. U.S. Bank Trust National began the foreclosure process in February.  

Nix denied there were any foreclosure proceedings and said she had "never even gotten served with those said documents."

" I can tell you at this particular moment that there is no issue with any of my properties that would be concerning for the public," she said. " There has not been a foreclosure on any of my properties and at all whatsoever. This case is not even clo- ... I would say that at this moment, there has not been a conviction of any foreclosures at all whatsoever on any of my properties."

VoxPopuli located initial records for several summonses sent March 2, 2026, to Nix, her husband and two "unknown tenants" at the Apopka home address. The matter has since been transferred to Polk County's Tenth Circuit Court, and the records are now sealed.

Nix and Walker own two other properties in Orlando. Mortgage documents show they purchased a home in the Holden Heights area in March 2022 for $441,750. In March 2026, they modified that loan, deferring $37,205.83 in payments until the home is sold or the mortgage paid off. The new mortgage on the Holden Heights home is now $400,903.83. Nix said the loan modification was to accommodate a pool. Meanwhile, the neighborhood homeowners association liened that property for nonpayment of $1,424.12 in fees. Nix and her husband satisfied that debt in June.

Calendar miscalculation

NixingJustice also calls out one of Nix's errors from her first year on the bench: a 2021 incident in which the judge released a murder suspect from Osceola County jail on his own recognizance. Linking to reporting done by WFTV 9, the site states that Nix “couldn’t do basic math, signing off on a murderer’s release because she failed to verify dates that a defense attorney had clearly miscalculated.”

According to WFTV 9, the defense attorney for Jamond Lamb argued before Nix that his client should be released from jail because prosecutors had not filed charges within 30 days of his arrest as required by law. The attorney claimed Lamb had been in jail for 33 days. Nix released Lamb on his own recognizance while prosecutors fumed that Nix and the defense attorney miscounted the days he had actually been in jail. Prosecutors also said they were not alerted that Lamb had been let go.

Nix acknowledged, "That was a big lesson on the bench for me."

Courtroom shenanigans

“She is not a good judge. She does not manage her docket well. She behaves on the bench like a reality TV judge. It’s like a Truman Show situation,” one attorney, who did not want to share their name because they may have cases before the judge, told VoxPopuli. “I was shocked and surprised when I heard she was a judge. She does not have the temperament or understanding of the law.”

Several attorneys, all of whom requested anonymity out of concern for professional repercussions, told VoxPopuli they do not take cases if Nix is the trial judge — or they raise their rates as an nuisance fee. Attorneys told VoxPopuli that Nix can be “rude” to those arguing cases before her as well as the clients they’re representing.

“I don’t want to say she has an attitude, but she has an attitude,” another attorney said.  

“It’s an open joke, talked about by her clerks and deputies, that she never starts court on time,” said the first attorney. “And it’s not 10 minutes late. It’s 45 minutes to an hour late. I showed up once for an 8:30 a.m. hearing, and the deputy laughed at me and said I could go out and get coffee and still not be late.”

Nix’s courtroom shenanigans have led at least one client to seek to have her removed from their case. According to a “Motion for Disqualification” viewed by VoxPopuli, the client sought a new judge because they believed they were not receiving a fair hearing and that Nix had prejudged the case before all of the evidence was presented.

The motion states that Nix "scoffed," "scowled," and “rolled her eyes no less than 20 times” during the client’s testimony; indicated to opposing counsel when they needed to object; took over questioning from the client’s attorney, interrupting the presentation of the case they’d prepared; and did not allow the client's attorney to fully present their evidence or testimony. During the first day of the two-day trial, the motion states, Nix told the client they were "not credible."

There was also concern that Nix was not fully focused on the trial proceedings. At one point, she was seen talking on a video call during the trial; at another, she talked with her clerk about an emergency motion for a different trial. One afternoon, she brought her young son to court and, the motion notes, appeared distracted by what he was doing in the back of the courtroom “while sensitive 911 calls were being played.”

Nix flatly denied bringing her child into the courtroom. "Absolutely not," she said.

Motions for Disqualification don’t happen all the time, an attorney with decades of litigation experience told VoxPopuli. “Attorneys take these very seriously.”

Even so, VoxPopuli learned that attorneys are reluctant to complain too much or too loudly about Nix, widely known to be well-connected in Republican circles.

"She's a Black MAGA Republican, and people are not willing to stick their necks out and get in trouble," noted the attorney who showed up to Nix's courtroom on-time. "Ever since [Gov. Ron] DeSantis has taken over the [Florida] Supreme Court and Bar, the legal community in Central Florida is a version of the 'upside down' in Stranger Things. The good people are punished, and the bad people are not only protected, in many ways they are rewarded the worse they behave."

Nix dismissed the criticism. " If all of those items that people describe were true, people in the Central Florida community aren't stupid, they're not slow. They're very intelligent. If there's something that they're not happy with, they're going to make their voice known, especially on some type of social media platforms, especially in my courtroom, and I don't get that at all. As a matter of fact, I get the opposite of that. I have people telling me all the time that I was great and amazing," she said.

"And I don't think that any of these things, even if they were taken as true, would discredit me as a judge."