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 2008 / Active

Cory J. Ciklin

Judge, Florida District Courts of Appeal

Cory J. Ciklin is a Judge of the Florida District Courts of Appeal, serving since 2008. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2008 · 18 yrs

Judicial service

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

Education

Florida State University
Florida State University

Judicial Record

In our data, Ciklin authored 265 published opinions for the court (2009–2019), plus 6 dissents and 10 concurrences. Most cited: Pembroke Lakes Mall Ltd. v. McGruder (47 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. 237 of these were attributed to Ciklin 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
2014	Pembroke Lakes Mall Ltd. v. McGruder†	137 So. 3d 418	47
2011	Edwards v. Landsman†	51 So. 3d 1208	40
2011	Monte v. State	51 So. 3d 1196	36
2014	Sheila Diwaker v. Montecito Palm Beach Condominium Association†	143 So. 3d 958	28
2010	Singh v. State	36 So. 3d 848	26
2013	Guzman v. State†	110 So. 3d 480	25
2011	Black v. State†	59 So. 3d 340	25
2009	Allenby & Associates, Inc. v. Crown \	8 So. 3d 1211	25
2011	PNC Bank, N.A. v. Progressive Employer Services II†	55 So. 3d 655	23
2017	Alexis v. State†	211 So. 3d 81	21
2010	Gomez v. Fradin	41 So. 3d 1068	21
2015	Mario A. Rodriguez and Lendy Rodriguez v. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. d/b/a America's Servicing Company†	178 So. 3d 62	17
2014	Alvarez v. State†	147 So. 3d 537	17
2011	Rossman v. Profera	67 So. 3d 363	16
2011	Ward v. State†	59 So. 3d 1220	16

Showing the 15 most-cited of 281 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 Cory J. Ciklin on?: Cory J. Ciklin is a Judge of the Florida District Courts of Appeal.

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18 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).