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 1999 / Active

Charles A. Davis Jr.

Judge, Florida District Courts of Appeal

Charles A. Davis Jr. is a Judge of the Florida District Courts of Appeal, serving since 1999. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1948 · age 78
Tenure: Since 1999 · 27 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1999	Florida District Courts of Appeal	–	–

Education

Trevecca Nazarene University
University of Florida

Judicial Record

In our data, Davis authored 843 published opinions for the court (1993–2016), plus 12 dissents and 11 concurrences. Most cited: McCall v. State (51 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. 432 of these were attributed to Davis 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
2003	McCall v. State	862 So. 2d 807	51
1994	Citicorp Ins. Brokers v. Charman	635 So. 2d 79	39
2007	Mortgage Electronic Registration v. Azize	965 So. 2d 151	36
1994	Harris v. State	647 So. 2d 206	35
1999	Lyles v. State	742 So. 2d 842	30
2002	State v. Pasko	815 So. 2d 680	29
2000	State v. T.M.†	761 So. 2d 1140	28
2003	E.E.A. v. Department of Children & Family Services†	846 So. 2d 1250	24
2003	Nedd v. State	855 So. 2d 664	23
2004	Burrows v. State	890 So. 2d 286	22
2003	Cillo v. State· Dissent†	849 So. 2d 353	22
1998	McElrath v. Burley	707 So. 2d 836	22
2006	Checkers Restaurant v. Wiethoff	925 So. 2d 348	21
1994	Shiveley v. Shiveley	635 So. 2d 1021	21
2002	BOUCHARD TRANSPORTATION CO. INC. v. Updegraff	807 So. 2d 768	19

Showing the 15 most-cited of 866 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 Charles A. Davis Jr. on?: Charles A. Davis Jr. is a Judge of the Florida District Courts of Appeal.

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27 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).