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 2010 / Active

Anthony K. Black

Judge, Florida District Courts of Appeal

Anthony K. Black is a Judge of the Florida District Courts of Appeal, serving since 2010. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2010 · 16 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2010	Florida District Courts of Appeal	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Black authored 198 published opinions for the court (2010–2019), plus 7 dissents and 4 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Stahl (31 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. 186 of these were attributed to Black 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	State v. Stahl†	206 So. 3d 124	31
2011	Konsulian v. Busey Bank, N.A. ex rel. Acquisition of Tarpon Coast National Bank†	61 So. 3d 1283	31
2014	Touhey v. Seda†	133 So. 3d 1203	28
2015	Russell v. Aurora Loan Services, LLC†	163 So. 3d 639	24
2012	Abbott v. Abbott†	98 So. 3d 616	21
2015	Colson v. State Farm Bank, F.S.B.†	183 So. 3d 1038	18
2012	Figueroa v. State†	84 So. 3d 1158	18
2010	Atomic Tattoos, LLC v. Morgan†	45 So. 3d 63	18
2016	Aluia v. Dyck-O'Neal, Inc.†	205 So. 3d 768	17
2013	Goudy v. Duquette†	112 So. 3d 716	16
2012	Sottilaro v. Figueroa†	86 So. 3d 505	15
2012	Crick v. Crick†	78 So. 3d 696	15
2011	Daniels v. State	72 So. 3d 227	15
2017	Harborside HealthCare, LLC. v. Jacobson†	222 So. 3d 612	13
2012	Interest of K.M. v. Department of Children & Family Services†	86 So. 3d 556	13

Showing the 15 most-cited of 209 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 Anthony K. Black on?: Anthony K. Black is a Judge of the Florida District Courts of Appeal.

Sources

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16 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).