A legal career that has sat on all three sides of the courtroom — judge, prosecutor, and defense attorney — now translated into clear, credible, on-camera analysis of the country's most-watched trials and the federal and state cases shaping American law.
The Honorable Tarlika Nunez-Navarro brings a credential no other legal analyst can claim: she has argued every side of the courtroom. As a criminal defense attorney, a prosecutor, and a Florida Circuit Court Judge — appointed by both Senator Rick Scott and Governor Ron DeSantis — she has lived the law at every level.
She served on the bench in Florida's Ninth and Seventeenth Judicial Circuits — Broward and Orange County — and was the first Colombian-American to do so. She presided over Criminal, Family, Domestic Violence, Juvenile, and Adult Drug Court divisions. Before the bench, she prosecuted felonies as an Assistant State Attorney in Broward County — from first-degree misdemeanors through life felonies — and defended clients across the state of Florida in private practice.
Today she is Dean and Professor of Law at St. Thomas University College of Law — the first alumna in the school's history to serve as Dean. Under her leadership, bar passage rates rose to 88.8%, enrollment has doubled, and the school climbed 13 spots in U.S. News & World Report's "Best Schools" rankings.
She is also an Adjunct Professor at FAMU School of Law, teaching Advanced Trial Litigation, and serves on the Florida Bar Mental Health & Wellness Committee and as a Trustee of the Florida Supreme Court Historical Society.
Tarlika is a nationally recognized legal analyst, appearing on NewsNation, Court TV, ABC News, WKMG, FOX News, CNN, and MSNBC. Producers know her for fast, plainspoken commentary on high-profile criminal trials, federal indictments, civil rights litigation, capital cases, sentencing, evidentiary rulings, and the courtroom strategy questions audiences actually care about.
She is based in Miami and available in-studio across South Florida, remote via satellite or video, and by phone for same-day breaking news.