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

Dorian K. Damoorgian

Judge, Florida District Courts of Appeal

Dorian K. Damoorgian 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

American University
Samford University

Judicial Record

In our data, Damoorgian authored 421 published opinions for the court (2001–2018), plus 7 dissents and 5 concurrences. Most cited: Ondrejack v. Ondrejack (66 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. 297 of these were attributed to Damoorgian 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
2003	Ondrejack v. Ondrejack	839 So. 2d 867	66
2009	Meruelo v. Mark Andrew of Palm Beaches, Ltd.	12 So. 3d 247	54
2011	R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. v. Brown†	70 So. 3d 707	49
2003	Kipp v. Kipp	844 So. 2d 691	40
2015	R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company v. Joan Schoeff, as Personal Representative of the Estate of James Edward Schoeff†	178 So. 3d 487	32
2011	Special v. Baux· Concurrence†	79 So. 3d 755	28
2011	Land & Sea Petroleum, Inc. v. Business Specialists, Inc.· Concurrence†	53 So. 3d 348	27
2014	Jimmy Smith v. State†	143 So. 3d 1023	22
2012	Philip Morris USA, Inc. v. Hess†	95 So. 3d 254	22
2010	King v. State	46 So. 3d 1171	21
2014	Wilcoxon v. Moller†	132 So. 3d 281	20
2012	Star Funding Solutions, LLC v. Krondes†	101 So. 3d 403	20
2010	Morales v. Weil†	44 So. 3d 173	20
2009	D.A. v. State†	11 So. 3d 423	20
2014	Rickardo Stephens v. State†	141 So. 3d 701	19

Showing the 15 most-cited of 433 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 Dorian K. Damoorgian on?: Dorian K. Damoorgian 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).