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 1993 / Served to 1997

Barbara Pariente

Judge, Florida District Courts of Appeal

Barbara Pariente was a Judge of the Florida District Courts of Appeal, who joined the court in 1993. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1993–1997 · 4 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1993	Florida District Courts of Appeal	–	–

Education

Boston University
George Washington University

Judicial Record

In our data, Pariente authored 249 published opinions for the court (1993–1999), plus 7 dissents and 10 concurrences. Most cited: Woods v. Nova Companies Belize Ltd. (72 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. 85 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	Woods v. Nova Companies Belize Ltd.	739 So. 2d 617	72
1994	Amjad Munim, M.D., P.A. v. Azar†	648 So. 2d 145	48
1996	State v. Meador	674 So. 2d 826	43
1996	C.S. v. S.H.†	671 So. 2d 260	39
1994	Silver v. Levinson	648 So. 2d 240	36
1997	Washington Capital Corp. v. MILANDCO	695 So. 2d 838	35
1997	Dean v. State	690 So. 2d 720	34
1996	Eagleman v. Eagleman	673 So. 2d 946	32
1996	Roberts v. State	670 So. 2d 1042	28
1995	Rushing v. Bosse	652 So. 2d 869	28
1996	WFTV, Inc. v. Wilken	675 So. 2d 674	27
1994	Garramone v. State	636 So. 2d 869	27
1994	Britamco v. Cen. Jersey Investments	632 So. 2d 138	27
1997	Security Professionals, Inc. v. Segall	685 So. 2d 1381	26
1996	Allstate Ins. Co. v. Manasse	681 So. 2d 779	26

Showing the 15 most-cited of 266 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 Barbara Pariente on?: Barbara Pariente was a Judge of the Florida District Courts of Appeal.

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4 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).