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 1989 / Served to 2002

Charles E. Miner

Judge, Florida District Courts of Appeal

Charles E. Miner was a Judge of the Florida District Courts of Appeal, who joined the court in 1989. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1989–2002 · 13 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1989	Florida District Courts of Appeal	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Miner authored 121 published opinions for the court (1989–2002), plus 7 dissents and 11 concurrences. Most cited: Barnes v. State (64 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. 63 of these were attributed to Miner 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
1991	Barnes v. State	576 So. 2d 758	64
1992	In the Interest of D.P. v. State†	597 So. 2d 952	57
1991	Flanagan v. State	586 So. 2d 1085	38
1991	Saavedra v. State	576 So. 2d 953	34
1991	Burdick v. State	584 So. 2d 1035	32
1992	STATE, DEPT. OF TRANSP. v. Bailey	603 So. 2d 1384	26
1990	Robinson v. State	556 So. 2d 450	26
1992	Kowkabany v. Home Depot, Inc.	606 So. 2d 716	24
1993	Dupree v. State	615 So. 2d 713	23
1989	Williams v. Amax Chemical Corp.	543 So. 2d 277	22
1989	Scapin v. Scapin	547 So. 2d 1012	21
1990	Kennedy v. State	564 So. 2d 1127	19
1990	Hoffay v. Hoffay	555 So. 2d 1309	19
1991	Florida Pottery Stores of Panama City, Inc. v. American Nat. Bank	578 So. 2d 801	18
1989	Bass v. State	547 So. 2d 680	18

Showing the 15 most-cited of 139 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 E. Miner on?: Charles E. Miner was a Judge of the Florida District Courts of Appeal.

Sources

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13 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).