The commission alleges Bryson's actions were a violation of several state and county rules that govern judges, including Canons 1, 2A, 3B(2), 3B(4), 3B(8) and 3C(1) of the Florida Code of Judicial Conduct.

"You failed to devote full time and attention to your judicial duties," according to the notice of formal charges filed before the Florida Supreme Court. "You were absent from the courthouse and not otherwise working full time on a recurring basis."

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The judge has 20 days to answer the charges, filed Tuesday.

But her lawyer has denied any wrongdoing on the jurist's part.

"Judge Bryson always, without exception, completed all her own work on the County Court, and voluntarily did hundreds of hours of additional work for Circuit Court judges," attorney Richardson, of Law Office of Scott N. Richardson in West Palm Beach, wrote in a statement. "The JQC takes issue with the fact that some of that work was done remotely before the pandemic made much judicial work remote. The statistics show that Judge Bryson each year has been the most, or amongst the most, productive judges on the entire bench. She was one of the few county court judges that voluntarily sought out additional trial work from the higher court, despite the challenges of serious health issues and being a single mother to a toddler."

"'Full-time' has not been interpreted to mean that all work must be done within the walls of the courthouse," the statement continued. "As has been demonstrated over the last year, the use of the extraordinary technology employed in virtually every industry allows some work to be done remotely, improves efficiency and has leveled the playing field for single parents everywhere."

Henry M. Coxe and Brian T. Coughlin of the Bedell Firm in Jacksonville represent the JQC, whose general counsel is Alexander J. Williams. Henry declined to comment.

Bryson won reelection in 2016. She has adjudicated cases involving high-profile litigants. For instance, she presided over an eviction case involving Lev Parnas, the Rudy Giuliani associate arrested in 2019 on a campaign finance indictment.

However, she became the subject of news reports in 2019, where attorneys revived allegations that Broward litigator William Scherer, of Conrad & Scherer, threatened to release intimate pictures of Bryson as leverage in a 2014 family law case. Bryson said the photos were pictures she took to chronicle her pregnancy.

Bryson's ethics case is now pending before the Florida Supreme Court, which has the last word on judicial discipline.

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