How do judges of the Supreme Court of Florida reach the bench?

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

Supreme Court of Florida / Joined 1975 / Served to 1982

Alan C. Sundberg

Justice, Supreme Court of Florida

Alan C. Sundberg was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Florida, who joined the court in 1975. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1933–2002
Tenure: 1975–1982 · 7 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1975	Supreme Court of Florida	–	–

Education

Florida State University
Harvard University

Judicial Record

In our data, Sundberg authored 193 published opinions for the court (1975–1982), plus 14 dissents and 11 concurrences. Most cited: Shaw v. Shaw (487 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. 52 of these were attributed to Sundberg 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
1976	Shaw v. Shaw	334 So. 2d 13	487
1979	Commercial Carrier Corp. v. Indian River Cty.	371 So. 2d 1010	439
1981	Villery v. Florida Parole & Probation Com'n	396 So. 2d 1107	274
1978	Wackenhut Corp. v. Canty	359 So. 2d 430	234
1976	Provence v. State	337 So. 2d 783	220
1979	Landers v. Milton	370 So. 2d 368	201
1977	Elledge v. State	346 So. 2d 998	200
1977	Wills v. Sears, Roebuck & Co.	351 So. 2d 29	178
1979	Brown v. State	376 So. 2d 382	169
1977	Helman v. Seaboard Coast Line R. Co.	349 So. 2d 1187	153
1980	Norman v. State	379 So. 2d 643	148
1982	Rupp v. Bryant	417 So. 2d 658	132
1981	In re Trial Courts of the Standard Jury Instructions in Criminal Cases· Concurrence†	431 So. 2d 594	130
1978	Dewberry v. Auto-Owners Ins. Co.	363 So. 2d 1077	130
1977	Pugliese v. Pugliese	347 So. 2d 422	124

Showing the 15 most-cited of 218 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 Supreme Court of Florida reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is merit selection with retention.
Which court was Alan C. Sundberg on?: Alan C. Sundberg was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Florida.

Sources

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