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 2009 / Active

Bruce Waldron Jacobus

Judge, Florida District Courts of Appeal

Bruce Waldron Jacobus is a Judge of the Florida District Courts of Appeal, serving since 2009. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2009 · 17 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2009	Florida District Courts of Appeal	–	–

Education

University of Florida

Judicial Record

In our data, Jacobus authored 80 published opinions for the court (1998–2017), plus 1 dissent and 2 concurrences. Most cited: Inter-Active Services v. HEATHROW MASTER (26 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. 52 of these were attributed to Jacobus 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
1998	Inter-Active Services v. HEATHROW MASTER	721 So. 2d 433	26
2010	Davies v. Commercial Metals Co.	46 So. 3d 71	19
1998	Freeman v. State	717 So. 2d 105	18
2013	Estremera v. State†	107 So. 3d 511	11
2011	Arias v. State†	65 So. 3d 104	11
2009	Foss v. State	24 So. 3d 1275	10
2017	Trainor v. PNC Bank, National Ass'n†	211 So. 3d 366	9
2010	Resnick v. Flagler County School Board	46 So. 3d 1110	9
2011	Castano v. State†	65 So. 3d 546	8
2003	Shore Holdings, Inc. v. Seagate Beach Quarters, Inc.	842 So. 2d 1010	8
2012	Perry v. Sovereign Healthcare of Metro West†	100 So. 3d 146	7
2010	Appel v. Lexington Insurance Co.†	29 So. 3d 377	7
2012	Charriez v. State†	96 So. 3d 1127	6
2010	VOWELS v. State	32 So. 3d 720	6
2012	Durant v. State†	94 So. 3d 669	5

Showing the 15 most-cited of 83 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 Bruce Waldron Jacobus on?: Bruce Waldron Jacobus is a Judge of the Florida District Courts of Appeal.

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17 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).