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 1965 / Served to 1967

Charles O. Andrews Jr.

Judge, Florida District Courts of Appeal

Charles O. Andrews Jr. was a Judge of the Florida District Courts of Appeal, who joined the court in 1965. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1965–1967 · 2 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1965	Florida District Courts of Appeal	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Andrews authored 125 published opinions for the court (1964–2006), plus 5 dissents and 3 concurrences. Most cited: Spataro v. State (117 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. 84 of these were attributed to Andrews 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
1965	Spataro v. State	179 So. 2d 873	117
1965	Egantoff v. Herring	177 So. 2d 260	33
1964	AUDLANE LBR. & BLDRS. SUP., INC. v. DE Britt Associates, Inc.	168 So. 2d 333	33
1964	Grall v. Risden	167 So. 2d 610	29
1965	Rowland v. Ewell	174 So. 2d 78	23
1965	State v. Brown	177 So. 2d 532	21
1967	Carlton v. Johns	194 So. 2d 670	20
1965	Bursten v. Green	172 So. 2d 472	20
1967	Strickland v. Muir	198 So. 2d 49	18
2003	Lawyers Title Ins. Co., Inc. v. Novastar Mortg., Inc.	862 So. 2d 793	17
1964	Brewton v. Kelly	166 So. 2d 834	17
1967	Gay v. City of Orlando	202 So. 2d 896	16
1966	Cheshire v. State Road Department	186 So. 2d 790	16
1966	Okeelanta Sugar Refinery, Inc. v. Maxwell	183 So. 2d 567	16
1965	Milby v. Pace Pontiac, Inc.	176 So. 2d 554	16

Showing the 15 most-cited of 134 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 Charles O. Andrews Jr. on?: Charles O. Andrews Jr. 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).