Christian Waugh

Christian is Managing Attorney at Waugh PLLC, whose primary office is currently located in Orlando, with satellite offices in The Villages, Miami, and Dallas. His work focuses on Corporate, Litigation, Real Estate, and Appellate practice areas. Christian and Waugh PLLC are able to take any client from the development of a transaction (contracts, POAs, interlocal agreements, large-scale commercial closings) through its tax consequences and into any litigation or related representation that may be necessary, whether in state, federal, trial, or appellate court. He is Board Certified by the Florida Bar in both Real Estate and City, County, and Local Government Law.Currently, Christian is the City Attorney for Clermont, Florida, the City Attorney for Oak Hill, Florida, and the Town Attorney for Hilliard, Florida as well as an Adjunct Professor at the University of Florida Law School. He has served as a Special Master for Code Enforcement, Building, and other matters in Citrus County since 2017. He has served as special counsel to the Central Florida Tourism Oversight District and as Interim Town Attorney for Callahan, Fla. He has assisted St. John’s County, Fla. on two major FEMA beach renourishment projects.Since 2022, Christian has represented an entertainment company in major copyright infringement litigation in federal courts across America, including a pending $400m case against Meta in the Northern District of California. Christian is a member of the Ninth Judicial Circuit Judicial Nominating Commission (JNC). He was Chair of the JNC from 2024-25 and Vice-Chair of the JNC from 2023-24. Prior to that, Governor Scott appointed him to the Fifth Judicial Circuit JNC where he also served as Vice-Chair from 2013-16. He is a member of the Dade County and Federal Bar Associations, as well as the Cuban American Bar Association. He is admitted to practice in the U.S. District Courts for the Southern, Middle, and Northern Districts of Florida, the Northern, Western, and Eastern Districts of Texas, the Northern and Central Districts of Illinois, the Northern and Western Districts of Oklahoma, the Western District of Wisconsin, and for Colorado, Maryland, New Mexico, and Nebraska, as well as the Fourth, Seventh, Tenth, and Eleventh Circuit Courts of Appeals and United States Supreme Court.In addition to professional interests, Christian enjoys horseback riding, piloting, sailing, swimming, writing, and his Greek Orthodox Church. He has an amazing wife, Mirella, and two awesome children, Ariadne and Kieran.