Judge Anthony Porcelli was sworn in as a United States Magistrate Judge for the Middle District of Florida in August 2009. Judge Porcelli received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1993 from Stetson University, a Master of Business Administration from Jacksonville University in 1995, and obtained his Juris Doctorate from Stetson University College of Law in 1998, graduating in the top three of his class.

After law school, Judge Porcelli served as a law clerk from 1998 to 2000 for the Honorable Harvey E. Schlesinger. Upon completing his clerkship, Judge Porcelli worked for the United States Attorney’s Office from 2000 to 2009, during which he tried over 30 federal criminal trials. Judge Porcelli ended his tenure with the United States Attorney’s Office as a Senior Litigation Counsel.

Judge Porcelli has taught eDiscovery at Stetson College of Law as an adjunct professor and on technology and the law at the Law Society of Ireland. Further, as a member of the Federal Judicial Center’s Magistrate Judges’ Education Advisory Committee, Judge Porcelli has taught eDiscovery, 4 th Amendment issues, criminal pretrial proceedings, and a variety of other substantive topics annually to Magistrate Judges, and he has presented programs on cybersecurity, cyberfraud, criminal pretrial proceedings, and comparative law to judges in India, Sri Lanka, Kosovo, and Uzbekistan.