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 2003 / Served to 2012

David A. Monaco

Judge, Florida District Courts of Appeal

David A. Monaco was a Judge of the Florida District Courts of Appeal, who joined the court in 2003. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 2003–2012 · 9 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2003	Florida District Courts of Appeal	–	–

Education

Vanderbilt University
University of Florida

Judicial Record

In our data, Monaco authored 382 published opinions for the court (2001–2012), plus 2 dissents and 4 concurrences. Most cited: KC Leisure, Inc. v. Haber (52 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. 125 of these were attributed to Monaco 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
2008	KC Leisure, Inc. v. Haber	972 So. 2d 1069	52
2006	Willingham v. City of Orlando	929 So. 2d 43	41
2005	ZP NO. 54 LTD. v. Fidelity and Deposit Co.	917 So. 2d 368	32
2004	Force v. Ford Motor Co.	879 So. 2d 103	30
2010	Taylor v. Deutsche Bank National Trust Co.†	44 So. 3d 618	27
2003	Worley v. State	848 So. 2d 491	26
2009	Ortiz v. State	24 So. 3d 596	25
2005	Koile v. State	902 So. 2d 822	23
2003	Wentworth v. Johnson	845 So. 2d 296	23
2011	State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co. v. Curran· Concurrence†	83 So. 3d 793	21
2004	Karimi v. Karimi	867 So. 2d 471	21
2004	Perry v. Fairbanks Capital Corp.	888 So. 2d 725	20
2003	Ware Else, Inc. v. Ofstein	856 So. 2d 1079	19
2006	Blake v. State	939 So. 2d 192	18
2003	Carrion v. State	859 So. 2d 563	18

Showing the 15 most-cited of 388 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 A. Monaco on?: David A. Monaco was a Judge of the Florida District Courts of Appeal.

Sources

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9 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).