The Hon. Olanike A. Adebayo is a general magistrate for the 11th Judicial Circuit Court of Florida in Miami-Dade County.
Adebayo has held an assignment in the Probate Division.
Prior to beginning her judicial career, she was assistant regional counsel in the Dependency Division of the Office of Criminal Conflict and Civil Regional Counsel in the Third Region of Florida since 2014. Before that, Adebayo briefly handled family law, criminal, juvenile defense, and personal injury matters at her own private practice, Olanike Adebayo, P.A., since August of that same year.
She entered private practice after working as an assistant state attorney with the Miami-Dade State Attorney’s Office, having rejoined the office following a stint as a police legal advisor with the Miami-Dade Police Department’s Legal Bureau. Adebayo, who began her position there in 2005, also taught courses involving child custody disputes, juvenile procedures, domestic violence, landlord and tenant, and civil and criminal liability to law enforcement personnel and local citizens at the Metropolitan Poice Institute.
Before that, she worked for almost eight years at the Miami-Dade State Attorney’s Office, where she first started as an intern before being hired full-time in 1997. Adebayo held assignments in the Misdemeanor and Felony Domestic Violence Units, rising through the ranks to become Chief of Litigation of the Juvenile Division.
She received a B.A. in philosophy, law and rhetoric from Stephens College in 1994. Adebayo then completed a J.D. at the University of Miami School of Law in 1997.
She was a board member for Legal Servies of Greater Miami, Inc. and has volunteered her time for Women of Tomorrow, 5000 Role Models, Teen Court, and The Women’s Breast and Heart Initiative.
Adebayo, who goes by ‘Nike,” was raised in Chicago, Illinois. Her father is from Lagos, Nigeria, and her mother is from Niles, Ohio. During her childhood, Adebayo made annual trips to Nigeria to visit her father.
She is a married mother of one son.