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 1957 / Served to 1974

Charles A. Carroll

Judge, Florida District Courts of Appeal

Charles A. Carroll was a Judge of the Florida District Courts of Appeal, who joined the court in 1957. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1898–1982
Tenure: 1957–1974 · 17 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1957	Florida District Courts of Appeal	–	–

Education

University of Virginia-Main Campus
Harvard University

Judicial Record

In our data, Carroll authored 468 published opinions for the court (1962–1974), plus 45 dissents and 31 concurrences. Most cited: Ace Electric Supply Co. v. Terra Nova Electric, Inc. (56 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. 435 of these were attributed to Carroll 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
1973	Ace Electric Supply Co. v. Terra Nova Electric, Inc.	288 So. 2d 544	56
1964	City of Jacksonville v. Schumann	167 So. 2d 95	34
1963	McEachin v. McEachin	154 So. 2d 894	34
1967	Felton v. City of Pensacola	200 So. 2d 842	31
1965	Wise v. Quina	174 So. 2d 590	31
1964	Allison v. State	162 So. 2d 922	31
1965	Bergh v. Stephens	175 So. 2d 787	30
1965	Smith v. Peninsular Insurance Company	181 So. 2d 212	29
1966	Duggan v. State	189 So. 2d 890	25
1966	Quality Shell Homes & Supply Company v. Roley	186 So. 2d 837	25
1964	Beikirch v. City of Jacksonville Beach	159 So. 2d 898	25
1970	FEDERATED MUT. IMPLEMENT & HDWE. INS. CO. v. Griffin	237 So. 2d 38	24
1963	Boston Insurance Company v. Smith	149 So. 2d 68	24
1964	Hankins v. Title and Trust Company of Florida	169 So. 2d 526	23
1973	White v. Means	280 So. 2d 20	22

Showing the 15 most-cited of 545 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 A. Carroll on?: Charles A. Carroll was a Judge of the Florida District Courts of Appeal.

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17 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).