About

Meet Our Team

Rich Buxman
Rich Buxman
Chief of Homicide Prosecution

Rich Buxman is the Chief of Homicide Prosecution, assigned to oversee the prosecution of all homicide cases in the Fifth Judicial Circuit. 

Born and raised in Florida, Rich graduated from Stetson University with a Bachelor of Arts degree and then attended the University of Florida law school, where he received his Juris Doctor in 1998.  He became a prosecutor for the Fifth Judicial Circuit in 1998 and, during his career, has prosecuted most types of misdemeanors, felonies, sexually violent predators, and homicides. A career prosecutor, he began his career assigned to Citrus County and became the supervisor of that office from 2003-2013.  He was then assigned to prosecute almost exclusively homicide cases, including death penalty cases, first in Lake County, then in Marion County, and now across the circuit.  Rich is also a graduate of the National District Attorney’s Association Career Prosecutor School in Charleston, South Carolina, and was the Chair of the Florida Bar’s Fifth Circuit Grievance Committee.