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

Florida District Courts of Appeal / Joined 1978 / Served to 2005

Anne Cawthon Booth

Judge, Florida District Courts of Appeal

Anne Cawthon Booth was a Judge of the Florida District Courts of Appeal, who joined the court in 1978. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1934 · age 92
Tenure: 1978–2005 · 27 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1978	Florida District Courts of Appeal	–	–

Education

University of Florida
University of Florida

Judicial Record

In our data, Booth authored 369 published opinions for the court (1978–2003), plus 140 dissents and 37 concurrences. Most cited: Armour v. Allen (79 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. 348 of these were attributed to Booth 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
1979	Armour v. Allen	377 So. 2d 798	79
1983	ST. v. Falls Chase Spec. Taxing Dist.	424 So. 2d 787	46
1990	Cunningham v. Anchor Hocking Corp.	558 So. 2d 93	44
1990	In Interest of DJS	563 So. 2d 655	38
1985	Hennagan v. DEPT. OF HIGHWAY SAFETY	467 So. 2d 748	38
1980	Cotita v. State	381 So. 2d 1146	34
1983	Henry v. STATE, DEPT. OF ADMIN., DIV. OF RETIREMENT	431 So. 2d 677	33
1988	Ward v. State	519 So. 2d 1082	30
1980	FLORIDA FARM BUR. MUT. INS. v. Rice	393 So. 2d 552	29
1978	WOOD-HOPKINS CONTRACT. v. Roger J. Au & Son, Inc.	354 So. 2d 446	25
1989	Warren v. MONAHAN BEACHES JEWELRY CTR	548 So. 2d 870	22
1986	Scobee v. State	488 So. 2d 595	22
1998	Acker v. City of Clearwater	755 So. 2d 651	21
1994	J.B. v. State· Dissent†	646 So. 2d 808	21
1979	Hawthorne v. State	377 So. 2d 780	21

Showing the 15 most-cited of 547 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 Anne Cawthon Booth on?: Anne Cawthon Booth was a Judge of the Florida District Courts of Appeal.

Sources

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27 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).