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 1998 / Active

Carole Taylor

Judge, Florida District Courts of Appeal

Carole Taylor is a Judge of the Florida District Courts of Appeal, serving since 1998. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 1998 · 28 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1998	Florida District Courts of Appeal	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Taylor authored 597 published opinions for the court (1997–2018), plus 17 dissents and 8 concurrences. Most cited: Nardone v. State (75 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. 296 of these were attributed to Taylor 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	Nardone v. State	798 So. 2d 870	75
2008	LA FITNESS INTERNATIONAL, LLC. v. Mayer	980 So. 2d 550	63
1999	Hillcrest Pacific Corp. v. Yamamura	727 So. 2d 1053	63
2001	Slydell v. State	792 So. 2d 667	62
2004	Roberts v. State	874 So. 2d 1225	61
2004	McBride v. State	884 So. 2d 476	59
2006	Viets v. AREI	922 So. 2d 1090	58
2003	Marine Environmental Partners, Inc. v. Johnson	863 So. 2d 423	41
1999	Barton Protective Services, Inc. v. Faber	745 So. 2d 968	40
2012	Phadael v. Deutsche Bank Trust Co. Americas†	83 So. 3d 893	35
2007	Ocean Communications, Inc. v. Bubeck	956 So. 2d 1222	35
2012	BKD Twenty-One Management Co. v. Delsordo†	127 So. 3d 527	34
2006	Colucci v. Kar Kare Automotive Group, Inc.	918 So. 2d 431	34
2015	R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company v. Joan Schoeff, as Personal Representative of the Estate of James Edward Schoeff· Concurrence†	178 So. 3d 487	32
2015	One Call Property Services, Inc. a/a/o William Hughes v. Security First Insurance Company†	165 So. 3d 749	32

Showing the 15 most-cited of 625 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 Carole Taylor on?: Carole Taylor is a Judge of the Florida District Courts of Appeal.

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28 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).