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 1988 / Served to 1990

C Welborn Daniel

Judge, Florida District Courts of Appeal

C Welborn Daniel was a Judge of the Florida District Courts of Appeal, who joined the court in 1988. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1926 · age 100
Tenure: 1988–1990 · 2 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1988	Florida District Courts of Appeal	–	–

Education

University of Florida

Judicial Record

In our data, Daniel authored 151 published opinions for the court (1983–2012), plus 2 dissents. Most cited: Complete Interiors, Inc. v. Behan (28 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. 80 of these were attributed to Daniel 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
1990	Complete Interiors, Inc. v. Behan	558 So. 2d 48	28
1988	Clauss v. Fortune Ins. Co.	523 So. 2d 1177	23
1988	Cole v. Cole	530 So. 2d 467	21
1988	Schwartz v. WK PARTNERS	530 So. 2d 456	19
1988	Quarles v. State Farm Mut. Auto. Ins. Co.	533 So. 2d 809	17
1988	Lightsey v. Williams	526 So. 2d 764	17
1990	FIRST ST. SAV. BANK v. Albright & Assocs. of Ocala, Inc.	561 So. 2d 1326	16
1988	Reimel v. State	532 So. 2d 16	16
1990	Isley v. State	565 So. 2d 389	15
1990	Milton v. Leapai	562 So. 2d 804	15
1989	Brown v. State	538 So. 2d 116	15
1988	Byrd v. State	531 So. 2d 1004	15
1989	Sanchez v. State	538 So. 2d 923	14
1988	Richardson v. State	523 So. 2d 746	14
1988	Medious v. DEPT. OF HIGHWAY SAFETY AMD MOTOR VEHICLES	534 So. 2d 729	13

Showing the 15 most-cited of 153 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 C Welborn Daniel on?: C Welborn Daniel was a Judge of the Florida District Courts of Appeal.

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2 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).