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 2011 / Active

Burton C. Conner

Judge, Florida District Courts of Appeal

Burton C. Conner is a Judge of the Florida District Courts of Appeal, serving since 2011. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2011 · 15 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2011	Florida District Courts of Appeal	–	–

Education

Duke University
University of Florida

Judicial Record

In our data, Conner authored 163 published opinions for the court (1999–2019), plus 12 dissents and 13 concurrences. Most cited: Caribbean Cruise Line, Inc. v. Better Business Bureau of Palm Beach County, Inc. (48 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. 171 of these were attributed to Conner 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
2015	Caribbean Cruise Line, Inc. v. Better Business Bureau of Palm Beach County, Inc.†	169 So. 3d 164	48
2017	Bistline v. Rogers†	215 So. 3d 607	34
2015	Kristy S. Holt v. Calchas, LLC†	155 So. 3d 499	33
2011	Special v. Baux· Concurrence†	79 So. 3d 755	28
2011	Robinson v. State	74 So. 3d 570	24
2016	Kendrick Silver v. State of Florida†	193 So. 3d 991	22
2013	De Cruz-Haymer v. Festival Food Market, Inc.†	117 So. 3d 885	22
2016	Deferrell v. State†	199 So. 3d 1056	21
2016	Joseph Lawrence O'Neill v. Sara Skye Goodwin· Dissent†	195 So. 3d 411	18
2015	Blue Infiniti, LLC and Jorge Diaz-Cueto v. Annette Cassells Wilson and Ricky Wilson†	170 So. 3d 136	18
2015	Mario A. Rodriguez and Lendy Rodriguez v. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. d/b/a America's Servicing Company· Concurrence†	178 So. 3d 62	17
2015	Gafoor Jaffer and Nina Jaffer v. Chase Home Finance, LLC· Concurrence†	155 So. 3d 1199	16
2015	Barbara Rustowicz v. North Broward Hospital District n/k/a Broward Health†	174 So. 3d 414	15
2014	Brian M. Beauchamp v. The Bank of New York Trust Company†	150 So. 3d 827	15
2014	School Board of Broward County v. Pierce Goodwin Alexander & Linville†	137 So. 3d 1059	13

Showing the 15 most-cited of 188 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 Burton C. Conner on?: Burton C. Conner is a Judge of the Florida District Courts of Appeal.

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15 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).