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 1981

Arthur J. England Jr.

Justice, Supreme Court of Florida

Arthur J. England Jr. was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Florida, who joined the court in 1975. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1932–2013
Tenure: 1975–1981 · 6 yrs

Judicial service

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

Judicial Record

In our data, England authored 177 published opinions for the court (1975–1981), plus 22 dissents and 21 concurrences. Most cited: Castor v. State (419 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. 72 of these were attributed to England 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
1978	Castor v. State	365 So. 2d 701	419
1980	Bishop v. Florida Specialty Paint Co.	389 So. 2d 999	244
1981	Binger v. King Pest Control	401 So. 2d 1310	187
1977	McArthur v. State	351 So. 2d 972	185
1976	Ball v. Ball	335 So. 2d 5	157
1976	State v. Allen	335 So. 2d 823	155
1981	State v. Benitez	395 So. 2d 514	153
1981	State v. Hegstrom	401 So. 2d 1343	126
1979	Overland Const. Co., Inc. v. Sirmons	369 So. 2d 572	124
1978	Randle-Eastern Ambulance Service v. Vasta	360 So. 2d 68	113
1979	Menendez v. State	368 So. 2d 1278	102
1977	Mobil Oil Corp. v. Shevin	354 So. 2d 372	101
1975	Castlewood International Corporation v. LaFleur	322 So. 2d 520	87
1978	Gulf Pines Memorial Park, Inc. v. Oaklawn Memorial Park, Inc.	361 So. 2d 695	86
1978	Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. v. Hughes Supply, Inc.	358 So. 2d 1339	82

Showing the 15 most-cited of 220 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 Arthur J. England Jr. on?: Arthur J. England Jr. was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Florida.

Sources

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6 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).