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 2012 / Active

Daniel H. Sleet

Judge, Florida District Courts of Appeal

Daniel H. Sleet is a Judge of the Florida District Courts of Appeal, serving since 2012. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2012 · 13 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2012	Florida District Courts of Appeal	–	–

Education

Furman University
Samford University

Judicial Record

In our data, Sleet authored 121 published opinions for the court (2013–2018), plus 2 concurrences. Most cited: McDonald v. State (130 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. 123 of these were attributed to Sleet 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
2013	McDonald v. State†	133 So. 3d 530	130
2014	Wolkoff v. American Home Mortgage Servicing, Inc.†	153 So. 3d 280	50
2014	May v. PHH Mortgage Corporation†	150 So. 3d 247	22
2016	Bollettieri Resort Villas Condominium Association, Inc. v. The Bank of New York Mellon†	198 So. 3d 1140	19
2014	Tower Hill Select Insurance Company v. McKee†	151 So. 3d 2	13
2013	Philip Morris USA, Inc. v. Hallgren†	124 So. 3d 350	13
2017	McCullough v. State· Concurrence†	230 So. 3d 586	11
2014	Ferguson Enterprises, Inc. v. Astro Air Conditioning & Heating, Inc.†	137 So. 3d 613	11
2013	Fintak v. Fintak†	120 So. 3d 177	10
2015	Finr II, Inc. v. Hardee County, Florida†	164 So. 3d 1260	9
2017	Pealer v. Wilmington Trust National Association· Concurrence†	212 So. 3d 1137	8
2016	Minda v. Minda†	190 So. 3d 1126	8
2013	Delgado-George v. State†	125 So. 3d 1031	7
2016	State v. Fultz†	189 So. 3d 155	6
2013	Motzenbecker v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co.†	123 So. 3d 600	6

Showing the 15 most-cited of 123 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 Daniel H. Sleet on?: Daniel H. Sleet is 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).