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 1997 / Former Justice

Barbara J. Pariente

Justice, Supreme Court of Florida

Barbara J. Pariente was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Florida, who joined the court in 1997. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1948 · age 78
Tenure: 1997 · 28 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1997	Supreme Court of Florida	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Pariente authored 268 published opinions for the court (1998–2019), plus 62 dissents and 222 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Spencer (837 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. 392 of these were attributed to Pariente 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
1999	State v. Spencer	751 So. 2d 47	837
2012	State v. Adkins· Concurrence†	96 So. 3d 412	570
2016	Timothy Lee Hurst v. State of Florida· Concurrence†	202 So. 3d 40	545
2000	Auto-Owners Ins. Co. v. Anderson	756 So. 2d 29	342
2000	Leonard v. State	760 So. 2d 114	317
1999	Goodwin v. State	751 So. 2d 537	292
2000	Maddox v. State†	760 So. 2d 89	262
2017	James Ernest Hitchcock v. State of Florida· Dissent†	226 So. 3d 216	253
2002	Robertson v. State	829 So. 2d 901	241
2002	Wendt v. Horowitz	822 So. 2d 1252	234
2001	Florida Dept. of Transp. v. Juliano	801 So. 2d 101	230
1999	Stephens v. State	748 So. 2d 1028	205
2006	Borden v. East-European Ins. Co.	921 So. 2d 587	186
2015	State of Florida v. Anthony Duwayne Horsley, Jr.†	160 So. 3d 393	174
2011	Johnson v. State· Concurrence†	60 So. 3d 1045	163

Showing the 15 most-cited of 552 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 Barbara J. Pariente on?: Barbara J. Pariente was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Florida.

Sources

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28 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).