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 1994 / Served to 2009

Carolyn Fulmer

Judge, Florida District Courts of Appeal

Carolyn Fulmer was a Judge of the Florida District Courts of Appeal, who joined the court in 1994. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1994–2009 · 15 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1994	Florida District Courts of Appeal	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Fulmer authored 572 published opinions for the court (1994–2010), plus 3 dissents and 6 concurrences. Most cited: Plichta v. Plichta (40 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. 282 of these were attributed to Fulmer 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
2005	Plichta v. Plichta	899 So. 2d 1283	40
2004	Zuniga v. State	869 So. 2d 1239	35
2007	I.R.C. v. State· Dissent†	968 So. 2d 583	33
1995	Brown v. State	674 So. 2d 738	31
1998	Hinton v. Smith	725 So. 2d 1154	30
2002	Bundrage v. State	814 So. 2d 1133	28
2004	Garcia v. State	872 So. 2d 326	25
2001	Chaffin v. Jacobson	793 So. 2d 102	24
2010	Estate of Rotell Ex Rel. Rotell v. Kuehnle	38 So. 3d 783	23
2003	Beck v. Beck	852 So. 2d 934	22
2003	Condon v. Office Depot, Inc.	855 So. 2d 644	20
2001	C.H.S. v. State†	795 So. 2d 1087	20
1997	Bowman v. State	698 So. 2d 615	20
1994	Jimenez v. State	643 So. 2d 70	20
2001	Roberti v. State	782 So. 2d 919	19

Showing the 15 most-cited of 581 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 Carolyn Fulmer on?: Carolyn Fulmer was 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).