Chapter One · Resolved — September 3, 2026
Judge Diana Tennis has left the bench.
Rather than accept the Florida Supreme Court’s July 2026 order of suspension, a fine, and a public reprimand for her political contributions — 913 donations totaling $29,154.76, in violation of Canon 7 — Judge Tennis resigned, forgoing the remaining months of her term on the Ninth Circuit.
What began as one self-represented litigant placing a public record on the table ends, in this chapter, with a judge stepping down.
Case closed — September 28, 2026. The Florida Judicial Qualifications Commission voluntarily dismissed the discipline case (SC2025-1438). Its stated basis: Judge Tennis’s retirement effective September 5, 2026 — and her agreement never to hold judicial office again. Read the dismissal →
Watch the FOX 35 report → 🆕 Breaking — new JQC complaint filed: a private law firm formed while she was still on the bench, and the order sealing her own contributions record →The Same Record, in Three Chapters
Three separate proceedings, bound by one throughline — the suppression of a self-represented litigant. Read the connected chapters:
I
Judge Diana Tennis
Campaign finance · Bias
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II
Judge LaShawnda Jackson
Identity · Sworn disclosures
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III
Harry L. Roen, Esq.
Attorney misconduct
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Judge Diana Tennis FEC Contribution Patterns
📊 New Analysis
Judge Tennis’s household ranks #3 of ALL households in Winter Park & Orlando for 2020 political giving
A combined $32,039 — $19,299 from her husband and $12,741 from the judge herself — out-giving every household in the two cities but two. A sitting judge, whom Canon 7 bars from political giving entirely.
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📅 Timeline Context:
Contributions began on January 26, 2017 (6 days after President Trump's inauguration on Jan 20, 2017)
and ended on January 31, 2021 (11 days after President Biden's inauguration on Jan 20, 2021)
🤖 ALGORITHMIC EVIDENCE SUMMARY
🧬 Machine-Structured Amounts
Round-dollar repeats ($25 ×192, $50 ×164) with odd micro-amounts ($9.09, $0.50)
🚨 Multiple Daily Contributions
213 out of 266 days (80%) had multiple contributions - impossible with subscription services
📊 Extreme Variability
112.2% coefficient of variation - subscriptions have <5% variation
🎯 Micro-Precision Amounts
Calculated amounts like $9.09 repeated 11 times in one day
💥 Burst Patterns
Up to 15 contributions in single days with calculated sequences
Start Date
Jan 26, 2017
Trump inaug Jan 20 (+6 days)
End Date
Jan 31, 2021
Biden inaug Jan 20 (+11 days)
Total Contributions
913
Total Amount
$29,154.76
Days with Contributions
266
Peak Month
Oct 2020
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Her husband gives from the same household and shares control of the family finances. Toggle to the cumulative view to see the household’s full political footprint.
Monthly Contribution Totals - Amount in Dollars (Election Surge Pattern)
Monthly Number of Contributions (Count)
Number of Contributions by Amount (Sorted Smallest to Largest)
🤖 Algorithmic Burst Analysis - Multiple Contributions Per Day (NOT Subscription-Like)
⚡ Time Series: Days Between Contributions (Irregular Pattern Evidence)
🎯 Daily Contribution Scatter Plot - Amount vs Count (Algorithmic Clustering)
🔍 Evidence Files - Public Records from Federal Election Commission
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The FEC database is confusing. Open these side-by-side in separate tabs:
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📁 Additional Evidence Files - Supplementary Analysis
⚖️ Amicus Curiae to the Florida Supreme Court — SC2025-1438
Dr. Devo Seereeram’s pro se amicus filing in the JQC discipline case (In re: Judge Diana M. Tennis), the correction to it, and the Court’s order — in sequence.
⚖️ Amicus Brief — Opposition to the JQC’s Recommendation
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Motion for leave + amicus brief (filed Oct 2, 2025) urging removal, not a public reprimand: 913 political contributions totaling nearly $30,000 over four years — dwarfing the Moon (15) and Kollra cases — plus refusal to recuse. Appendices and exhibits bound in. 61 pp.
📝 Notice of Correction to the Amicus
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Corrects the record on Judge Kollra: his 2019 public reprimand was for partisan political activity under Canon 7, not campaign-finance violations. Filed Oct 2, 2025. 2 pp.
🏛️ Florida Supreme Court Order — Oct 8, 2025
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The Court denied leave to file and struck both the amicus brief and the notice of correction. 1 p.
🆕 JQC Complaint filed — Sept 17, 2026: a law firm formed on the bench, and the order sealing her own contributions record
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Signed complaint to the Florida Judicial Qualifications Commission (Docket 24-714), submitted by certified mail on Sept 17, 2026, on two matters not part of the original contributions complaint. Exhibit 1 — Diana M Tennis LLC: Articles of Organization filed June 16, 2026, while she was still a sitting family-law judge and SC2025-1438 was pending, naming her as manager (“MGR”); eleven days after her last day her Bar profile listed the company as her firm, size one, “Private Law Practice,” Family Law. The registered address — 815 N. Magnolia Ave, Suite 300 — is a shared office operated by two members of the Bar (one the managing partner of a family-law firm in the same building). Canons 5A, 5D(1), 5D(3). Exhibit 2 — the Aug 13, 2024 order: hours after her political-contributions record was placed in the public court file, opposing counsel moved to seal it “for the protection of the judicial branch”; the next morning she reserved that motion for trial (confidential pending ruling) in the very same order that denied reconsideration of her recusal. Canons 1, 2A, 3E(1). Full transmittal letter, signed complaint form, both memoranda and all exhibits bound in. 62 pp.
📊 Household Ranking — #3 of All WP/Orlando Households (2020)
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FEC household analysis: the Tennis–Cybrynski household (1701 Walnut Ave) ranks 3rd of all Winter Park & Orlando households by 2020 political dollars — a combined $32,039 ($19,299 husband + $12,741 judge). Full methodology bound in.
🆕 “Adequate” Job Post — @tennisbench (Sept 26, 2016)
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Sitting judge’s public post the night before a court day — Canon 1, 2A, 3B(1). Not a Canon 7 item.
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Public Record Review of Circuit Judge Diana Michelle Tennis, Ninth Circuit, Florida (1985-2025)
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📊 Newspaper Clippings
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Diana Tennis Profile from Small Batch of Newspaper Clippings 270MB!
📝 Critique of JQC Recommendations
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JQC recommends scolding only. Annotated (Versio III) with a bound Latin appendix & translations. 12 pp.
📊 Diana Tennis Political Contributions – Excel
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Diana Tennis Political Contributions From Jan 2017 to Present - 913.xlsx
📋 Call for Immediate Impeachment of Judge Diana Tennis
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Call for Immediate Impeachment of Judge Diana Tennis.pdf
🚨 Algorithmic Structuring Patterns Analysis
📱 “It was on my phone and I forgot about it” — refuted by the record:
Judge Tennis has explained the contributions as something set up on her phone that she had forgotten about. The record is not consistent with a forgotten, automatic donation. The 913 gifts run in constantly varying amounts (not one fixed recurring charge), arrive in same-day bursts of up to 15, and then stop completely for more than a year — not a single contribution from December 2018 until March 2020 — before resuming. Most tellingly, the giving surged on the eve of the November 2020 election: October 2020 was the single largest month, $4,734 across 90 contributions. A forgotten auto-recurring app charges a fixed amount on a fixed schedule; it does not vary every gift, pause for fifteen months, and then spike in the weeks before an election. That timing is human.
Judge Tennis has explained the contributions as something set up on her phone that she had forgotten about. The record is not consistent with a forgotten, automatic donation. The 913 gifts run in constantly varying amounts (not one fixed recurring charge), arrive in same-day bursts of up to 15, and then stop completely for more than a year — not a single contribution from December 2018 until March 2020 — before resuming. Most tellingly, the giving surged on the eve of the November 2020 election: October 2020 was the single largest month, $4,734 across 90 contributions. A forgotten auto-recurring app charges a fixed amount on a fixed schedule; it does not vary every gift, pause for fifteen months, and then spike in the weeks before an election. That timing is human.
⚠️ Critical Timeline:
Contributions began six days after President Trump's inauguration on January 20, 2017, and ceased eleven days after President Biden's inauguration on January 20, 2021. This precise timing suggests politically motivated giving aligned with the Trump presidency.
Contributions began six days after President Trump's inauguration on January 20, 2017, and ceased eleven days after President Biden's inauguration on January 20, 2021. This precise timing suggests politically motivated giving aligned with the Trump presidency.
🧬 MACHINE-STRUCTURED AMOUNTS:
Machine-like amount selection. The same exact amounts repeat at scale — $25 appears 192 times, $50 appears 164 times — alongside odd micro-amounts such as $9.09 (entered ten times on a single day, July 19, 2020), $0.50, and $2.50. Repetition at this precision, combined with same-day bursts, is characteristic of automated entry rather than individual human giving.
Machine-like amount selection. The same exact amounts repeat at scale — $25 appears 192 times, $50 appears 164 times — alongside odd micro-amounts such as $9.09 (entered ten times on a single day, July 19, 2020), $0.50, and $2.50. Repetition at this precision, combined with same-day bursts, is characteristic of automated entry rather than individual human giving.
🤖 SMOKING GUN - Algorithmic Burst Pattern:
213 out of 266 days (80%) had multiple contributions - this is impossible with subscription services. Peak algorithmic bursts: 15 contributions in one day with calculated amounts like: [9.09, 9.1, 9.09, 9.09, 9.09...] - clearly computer-generated.
213 out of 266 days (80%) had multiple contributions - this is impossible with subscription services. Peak algorithmic bursts: 15 contributions in one day with calculated amounts like: [9.09, 9.1, 9.09, 9.09, 9.09...] - clearly computer-generated.
Extreme Variability (Anti-Subscription Evidence):
Coefficient of variation: 112.2% - subscription services have <5% variation. This extreme variability proves calculated algorithmic structuring to avoid pattern detection.
Repeated Exact Amounts (Computer-Generated):
$25.00 appears 192 times (21%), $50.00 appears 164 times (18%), $5.00 appears 83 times (9%) - combined with burst patterns, this shows algorithmic selection from predetermined amounts.
Micro-Amount Precision (Machine-Generated):
Amounts like $9.09, $1.50, $0.50 repeated in calculated sequences within single days - human donors don't contribute $9.09 multiple times per day.
Pre-Election Algorithmic Surge:
October 2020 saw $4,734 in contributions with maximum daily bursts - the algorithm was programmed to increase activity before elections.
🏠 The Household Ledger — Canon 7 Reaches the Whole Household
Judge Tennis does not give alone. Her husband, Michael J. Cybrynski, gives from the same household — 1701 Walnut Ave, Winter Park. Canon 7 restrains the political activity of a sitting judge’s household, not merely the name on the check. Between them, while she sat on the bench, the household routed $50,218.58 into partisan campaigns.
| Year | Husband (Cybrynski) | Judge Tennis | Combined |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | $0.00 | $5,175.00 | $5,175.00 |
| 2018 | $0.00 | $10,343.10 | $10,343.10 |
| 2019 | $0.00 | $0.00 | $0.00 — household dormant |
| 2020 | $19,298.82 | $12,740.66 | $32,039.48 ← election flood |
| 2021 | $440.00 | $896.00 | $1,336.00 |
| 2022 | $600.00 | $0.00 | $600.00 |
| 2023 | $0.00 | $0.00 | $0.00 |
| 2024 | $725.00 | $0.00 | $725.00 — stops Aug 6 |
| Total 2017–2024 | $21,063.82 | $29,154.76 | $50,218.58 |
Dormant → election flood. Neither spouse gave a cent in 2019. Then, in the 2020 election year, the household poured in $32,039 — and where she skipped a month, he covered it (April 2020: she gave $0, he gave $1,266). A dead year followed by a coordinated election-year surge is deliberate household giving, not an app someone “forgot” about.
It stops the week it became a legal problem. The husband’s final political contribution is August 6, 2024. Judge Tennis was formally advised of the Canon 7 violations by August 10, 2024; the disqualification motion followed on August 12, and she was disqualified August 15. Years of steady giving end cold, days before the exposure.
A floor, not a ceiling. These totals count only the two spouses by name. Additional contributions traced to the same home address — where the occupation was not listed as “judge” — are excluded here. Counted by household address, the figure is higher.
Restart dates — stated for the record. The household recorded no political contributions after December 27, 2018 — none in 2019, and none in January or February 2020. Contributions resumed the first week of March 2020: Michael J. Cybrynski on March 1, 2020 (his first contributions of record), and Judge Tennis on March 6, 2020. Giving then continued (March 8, 15, 18, and onward). These dates are presented as fact; no inference is drawn.
Statement of Candidate — stated for the record. On March 16, 2020, Judge Tennis signed the Statement of Candidate for Judicial Office (§105.031(5), Fla. Stat.), affirming she had received, read, and understood the Florida Code of Judicial Conduct; the form was received by the qualifying officer on March 24, 2020. Stated for context; no inference is drawn.
Campaign treasurer — stated for the record. On her 2020 Appointment of Campaign Treasurer and Designation of Campaign Depository (Form DS-DE 9, §106.021(1), Fla. Stat.), for Ninth Judicial Circuit, Circuit Court Judge, Seat 32, Judge Tennis designated her husband, Michael J. Cybrynski, as her campaign treasurer. He accepted the appointment on March 30, 2020; the candidate signed on March 31, 2020; the form was received by the qualifying officer on April 2, 2020. The designated campaign depository was BB&T, Winter Park. Stated for context; no inference is drawn.
Qualifying fee — stated for the record. Separately, in her state campaign account (Florida Division of Elections, 2020 General Election), Judge Tennis recorded a single contribution of $6,427.52 on April 9, 2020, self-funded (contributor listed as “Tennis, Diana Michelle,” type: check). Under §105.031, Fla. Stat., the nonpartisan judicial qualifying fee is 4% of the office’s annual salary — here, 4% of the $160,688 circuit-judge salary. She qualified unopposed and did not appear on the November 2020 ballot. Stated for context; no inference is drawn.