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 2006

David L. Levy

Judge, Florida District Courts of Appeal

David L. Levy was a Judge of the Florida District Courts of Appeal, who joined the court in 1989. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1989–2006 · 17 yrs

Judicial service

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

Education

University of Miami
University of Tulsa

Judicial Record

In our data, Levy authored 124 published opinions for the court (1985–2007), plus 7 dissents and 3 concurrences. Most cited: State v. D.S. (30 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. 98 of these were attributed to Levy 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
1996	State v. D.S.†	685 So. 2d 41	30
2004	Russell v. KSL Hotel Corp.	887 So. 2d 372	24
1998	Ascontec Consulting, Inc. v. Young	714 So. 2d 585	15
2002	Lincoln Ins. Co. v. Home Emergency Services, Inc.	812 So. 2d 433	12
1999	Royal v. State	736 So. 2d 157	10
1999	Gonzalez v. Veloso	731 So. 2d 63	10
1996	Pearl Cruises v. Bestor	678 So. 2d 372	10
1994	Seitlin & Co. v. Phoenix Ins. Co.	650 So. 2d 624	10
1999	English v. State	740 So. 2d 589	9
2003	Monroe County v. Ambrose	866 So. 2d 707	8
1999	Huml v. Collins	739 So. 2d 633	8
1990	Addis v. State†	557 So. 2d 84	8
1989	J.D. v. State†	553 So. 2d 1317	8
1999	Hayes v. State	748 So. 2d 1042	7
1999	Woodson v. State	739 So. 2d 1210	7

Showing the 15 most-cited of 134 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 David L. Levy on?: David L. Levy was a Judge of the Florida District Courts of Appeal.

Sources

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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).