How do judges of the Supreme Court of Florida reach the bench?

The court's current selection method is merit selection with retention.

Supreme Court of Florida / Joined 2008 / Former Justice

Charles T. Canady

Justice, Supreme Court of Florida

Charles T. Canady was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Florida (7 judges, selected by merit selection with retention), who joined the court in 2008. They previously served on the Florida District Courts of Appeal. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1954 · age 72
Tenure: 2008 · 18 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2002	Florida District Courts of Appeal	–	–
2008	Supreme Court of Florida	–	–

Education

Haverford College
Yale University

Judicial Record

In our data, Canady authored 320 published opinions for the court (2003–2019), plus 144 dissents and 97 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Adkins (570 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. 366 of these were attributed to Canady 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
2012	State v. Adkins†	96 So. 3d 412	570
2016	Timothy Lee Hurst v. State of Florida· Dissent†	202 So. 3d 40	545
2004	Shortridge v. State	884 So. 2d 321	232
2011	Johnson v. State†	60 So. 3d 1045	163
2013	Tiara Condominium Ass'n v. Marsh & McLennan Companies· Dissent†	110 So. 3d 399	153
2014	Bernard J. Dougherty v. State of Florida· Dissent†	149 So. 3d 672	152
2016	John F. Mosley v. State of Florida & SC14-2108 John F. Mosley v. Julie L. Jones, etc.· Concurrence†	209 So. 3d 1248	151
2009	E.A.R. v. State· Dissent†	4 So. 3d 614	141
2016	Ronald Williams v. State of Florida· Concurrence†	186 So. 3d 989	128
2013	Diamond Aircraft Industries, Inc. v. Horowitch· Concurrence†	107 So. 3d 362	125
2012	Citizens Property Insurance Corp. v. San Perdido Ass'n· Dissent†	104 So. 3d 344	101
2013	Philip Morris USA, Inc. v. Douglas· Dissent†	110 So. 3d 419	92
2011	Carbajal v. State†	75 So. 3d 258	91
2010	Dennis v. State	51 So. 3d 456	91
2013	Haygood v. State· Dissent†	109 So. 3d 735	89

Showing the 15 most-cited of 561 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 Supreme Court of Florida reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is merit selection with retention.
Which court was Charles T. Canady on?: Charles T. Canady was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Florida.

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18 years on the Supreme Court of Florida. Data as of 2026-03-31. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).