Candidates Shayla E. Lee and Matthew Lufrano for Duval County Judge Group 9 will move to a runoff in the general election on Nov. 5 after securing their spots during Tuesday’s primaries.

Neither Andrew Bonderud nor Marcus Isom secured enough votes to advance to the general election. 

Lee is an attorney with the 4th Circuit Public Defender’s Office and earned 31% of the vote, and Lufrano, a criminal defense attorney who founded Lufrano Legal P.A, earned 28% of the vote.

County judges hear criminal misdemeanors, which have possible sentences of up to a year in jail, and civil cases. They assign bail and can decide whether someone is held in jail pretrial. 

Nichole Manna is The Tributary’s criminal justice reporter. You can reach her at nichole.manna@floridatrib.org or on Twitter at @NicholeManna.

Nichole Manna is The Florida Trib's Senior Investigative Reporter. She has been with the organization since 2023 and has covered the criminal justice system for more than a decade.

Nichole has extensively covered conditions at the Duval County jail and in 2024 received first place from the Green Eyeshade Awards in online investigations for her reporting of medical neglect at the facility. That series of stories was recognized with awards at the local, regional and national level. She took home the first place prize for a feature story in a small newsroom from the Online Journalism Awards in 2025 for her series, ‘Cold-Blooded’, which dissected a 1993 death penalty case and questioned whether the defendant received a fair trial.

Prior to joining The Trib, Nichole was an investigative reporter at the Fort Worth Star-Telegram in Texas where she was a Livingston Award finalist for a series of stories about a neighborhood with the lowest life expectancy in the state. Her work helped get residents access to free pop-up clinics and they continue to receive help with food disparities.

She is currently working with ProPublica’s Local Reporting Network to produce an investigative project.

You can reach her at nichole@floridatrib.org.