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 2013 / Active

Alan Orantes Forst

Judge, Florida District Courts of Appeal

Alan Orantes Forst is a Judge of the Florida District Courts of Appeal, serving since 2013. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2013 · 13 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2013	Florida District Courts of Appeal	–	–

Education

Georgetown University

Judicial Record

In our data, Forst authored 161 published opinions for the court (2013–2019), plus 7 dissents and 10 concurrences. Most cited: Ricardo Ortiz, Nuria Almeida and Frank Padron v. PNC Bank, National Association (54 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. 179 of these were attributed to Forst 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
2016	Ricardo Ortiz, Nuria Almeida and Frank Padron v. PNC Bank, National Association†	188 So. 3d 923	54
2014	Deutsche Bank National Trust Co. v. Huber†	137 So. 3d 562	36
2016	Charles v. State†	204 So. 3d 63	29
2015	O.I.C.L., a child v. Department of Children And Families· Dissent†	169 So. 3d 1244	29
2018	RICHARD W. JONES AND LOUISE A. KIERNAN v. FEDERATED NATIONAL INS. CO.†	235 So. 3d 936	28
2016	Thomas Caraccia v. U.S. Bank, National Association†	185 So. 3d 1277	28
2015	Natacha Peuguero and Angelo Peuguero v. Bank of America, N.A.†	169 So. 3d 1198	26
2016	Mobley v. State†	197 So. 3d 572	25
2013	J.E. v. Department of Children & Families†	126 So. 3d 424	24
2014	Julia v. Julia†	146 So. 3d 516	23
2018	Dortch v. State· Concurrence†	242 So. 3d 431	22
2016	Joseph Lawrence O'Neill v. Sara Skye Goodwin†	195 So. 3d 411	18
2016	Edward K. Henry v. Suzanne W. Henry†	191 So. 3d 995	18
2015	Vera De Sousa, as Trustee for Vag Land Trust 1 v. JP Morgan Chase†	170 So. 3d 928	17
2015	Brian Kelly a/k/a Brian K. Kelly v. BankUnited, FSB†	159 So. 3d 403	17

Showing the 15 most-cited of 179 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 is Alan Orantes Forst on?: Alan Orantes Forst is a Judge of the Florida District Courts of Appeal.

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13 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).