According to the Florida Constitution, Article V (Judiciary), Section 8 (Eligibility):
No person shall be eligible for office of justice or judge of any court unless the person is an elector of the state and resides in the territorial jurisdiction of the court. No justice or judge shall serve after attaining the age of seventy years except upon temporary assignment or to complete a term, one-half of which has been served...No person is eligible for the office of circuit judge unless the person is, and has been for the preceding five years, a member of the bar of Florida.