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 1965 / Served to 1975

Dewey M. Johnson

Judge, Florida District Courts of Appeal

Dewey M. Johnson was a Judge of the Florida District Courts of Appeal, who joined the court in 1965. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1965–1975 · 10 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1965	Florida District Courts of Appeal	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Johnson authored 440 published opinions for the court (1965–2005), plus 20 dissents and 8 concurrences. Most cited: In re the Interest of R. J. C. (118 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. 343 of these were attributed to Johnson 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
1974	In re the Interest of R. J. C.†	300 So. 2d 54	118
1974	Teta v. Teta	297 So. 2d 642	52
1975	INNKEEPERS INTL., INC. v. McCoy Motels, Ltd.	324 So. 2d 676	43
1975	Orlando Sports Stadium, Inc. v. Sentinel Star Co.	316 So. 2d 607	42
1972	General Acc. F. & L. Assur. Corp. v. Liberty Mut. Ins. Co.	260 So. 2d 249	41
1966	Brown v. Kendrick	192 So. 2d 49	40
1974	Owens v. State	289 So. 2d 472	27
1970	Ford v. Bay County School Board	246 So. 2d 119	22
1968	Bussey v. Shingleton	211 So. 2d 593	21
1970	Wilkes v. Revels	245 So. 2d 896	20
1970	State v. O'Steen	238 So. 2d 434	20
1966	Cooper v. State	183 So. 2d 269	20
1973	Costin v. Hargraves	283 So. 2d 375	19
1966	Smith v. State	194 So. 2d 310	19
1974	Winn-Dixie Montgomery, Inc. v. Petterson	291 So. 2d 666	18

Showing the 15 most-cited of 469 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 Dewey M. Johnson on?: Dewey M. Johnson was a Judge of the Florida District Courts of Appeal.

Sources

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10 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).