How do judges of the Florida District Courts of Appeal reach the bench?

The court's current selection method is merit selection with retention.

Florida District Courts of Appeal / Joined 1957 / Served to 1964

A O. Kanner

Judge, Florida District Courts of Appeal

A O. Kanner was a Judge of the Florida District Courts of Appeal, who joined the court in 1957. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1893–1967
Tenure: 1957–1964 · 7 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1957	Florida District Courts of Appeal	–	–

Education

Stetson University

Judicial Record

In our data, Kanner authored 227 published opinions for the court (1957–1966), plus 2 concurrences. Most cited: Humphrys v. Jarrell (81 citations).

Published, precedential opinions from the CourtListener corpus. Counts and rankings are objective and recomputable: how we count. We describe the record, not the judge. 90 of these were attributed to Kanner by a unique court-, date-, and surname-match against our roster (marked ), because CourtListener recorded no author for them. Each links to the official text to verify. How we match.

Selected opinions

Year	Case	Citation	Cited
1958	Humphrys v. Jarrell	104 So. 2d 404	81
1964	Austin v. State	160 So. 2d 730	64
1963	Paddock v. Bay Concrete Industries, Inc.	154 So. 2d 313	64
1958	Renpak, Inc. v. Oppenheimer	104 So. 2d 642	62
1964	New Amsterdam Casualty Company v. Addison	169 So. 2d 877	50
1961	Harbond, Inc. v. Anderson	134 So. 2d 816	45
1960	Florida Power Corporation v. McNeely	125 So. 2d 311	43
1960	Cawthon v. Phillips Petroleum Company	124 So. 2d 517	42
1960	Florio v. State Ex Rel. Epperson	119 So. 2d 305	39
1965	O'NEAL v. Tribune Company	176 So. 2d 535	34
1958	Tribue v. State	106 So. 2d 630	29
1959	Chavigny v. State	112 So. 2d 910	28
1958	Thomas v. Cilbe, Inc.	104 So. 2d 397	28
1963	Hamilton v. State	152 So. 2d 793	26
1960	Colby v. Colby	120 So. 2d 797	26

Showing the 15 most-cited of 229 authored opinions in our data. “Cited” is inbound citations across the CourtListener corpus. Case links open the ruling’s full text (CourtListener) or its page here; read the methodology and verify against the primary source.

Questions & answers

How do judges of the Florida District Courts of Appeal reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is merit selection with retention.
Which court was A O. Kanner on?: A O. Kanner was a Judge of the Florida District Courts of Appeal.

Sources

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7 years on the Florida District Courts of Appeal. Data as of 2026-03-31. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).