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 1986 / Served to 2007

Bobby Gunther

Judge, Florida District Courts of Appeal

Bobby Gunther was a Judge of the Florida District Courts of Appeal, who joined the court in 1986. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1986–2007 · 21 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1986	Florida District Courts of Appeal	–	–

Education

University of Florida
University of Florida

Judicial Record

In our data, Gunther authored 327 published opinions for the court (1985–2007), plus 16 dissents and 6 concurrences. Most cited: Samuels v. King Motor Co. of Fort Lauderdale (91 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. 180 of these were attributed to Gunther 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
2001	Samuels v. King Motor Co. of Fort Lauderdale	782 So. 2d 489	91
1996	Provence v. Palm Beach Taverns, Inc.	676 So. 2d 1022	54
1999	Jay v. State	731 So. 2d 774	44
1998	Fleming v. Fleming	710 So. 2d 601	42
2006	State v. Rabb	920 So. 2d 1175	40
1988	Country Manors Ass'n, Inc. v. Master Antenna Systems, Inc.	534 So. 2d 1187	35
1995	Knight Energy Services, Inc. v. Amoco Oil Co.	660 So. 2d 786	28
1995	Levine v. State	650 So. 2d 666	27
1997	Levitt v. Levitt	699 So. 2d 755	26
1997	Bartolotta v. Bartolotta	687 So. 2d 1385	26
1992	Reynolds v. State Farm Mut. Auto. Ins. Co.	611 So. 2d 1294	26
1987	Della-Donna v. Nova University, Inc.	512 So. 2d 1051	25
1996	St. Mary's Hosp., Inc. v. Brinson	685 So. 2d 33	24
2004	Pantin v. State	872 So. 2d 1000	23
1986	Maddux v. Maddux	495 So. 2d 863	23

Showing the 15 most-cited of 349 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 Bobby Gunther on?: Bobby Gunther was a Judge of the Florida District Courts of Appeal.

Sources

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21 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).