TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Gov. DeSantis has his third Florida Supreme Court justice.

Carlos Muñiz is DeSantis' third Supreme Court nominee

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DeSantis picked Carlos Muñiz, a U.S. Dept. of Education attorney under the Trump administration, as his third appointee at an event Tuesday morning.

He also worked as chief of staff under Attorney General Pam Bondi, and as general counsel for former Gov. Jeb Bush.

He has no experience as a judge, but he did clerk for two federal judges early in his legal career.

Muñiz joins Barbara Lagoa and Robert Luck as new Florida Supreme Court justices.

They replace Justices Barbara Pariente, Fred Lewis, and Peggy Quince, who all retired.

DeSantis said in his inaugural address a few weeks ago that he would end judicial activism in the Florida Supreme Court.

The court has been at odds with Republican lawmakers over the past decade, overturning a number of laws as unconstitutional.

While conservatives praised Muñiz as a sharp legal mind who supports a conservative judicial philosophy, Democrats decried DeSantis' decision not to pick a black jurist to serve on the bench. It means for the first time in 37 years, there will be no African-American voice on the Florida Supreme Court.