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 / Active

Douglas A. Wallace

Judge, Florida District Courts of Appeal

Douglas A. Wallace is a Judge of the Florida District Courts of Appeal, serving since 2003. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1947 · age 79
Tenure: Since 2003 · 23 yrs

Judicial service

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

Education

Princeton University
Yale University

Judicial Record

In our data, Wallace authored 583 published opinions for the court (2003–2017), plus 8 dissents and 12 concurrences. Most cited: Rollins, Inc. v. Butland (284 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. 302 of these were attributed to Wallace 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
2006	Rollins, Inc. v. Butland	951 So. 2d 860	284
2004	General Star Indem. Co. v. W. Fla. Village Inn, Inc.	874 So. 2d 26	55
2005	Progressive Exp. v. McGRATH CHIROPRACTIC	913 So. 2d 1281	46
2004	MONTAGE GROUP v. Athle-Tech Computer Sys.	889 So. 2d 180	40
2004	Fassy v. Crowley	884 So. 2d 359	39
2014	LoBello v. State Farm Florida Insurance Co.†	152 So. 3d 595	36
2007	Hernandez v. State	946 So. 2d 1270	36
2005	Levy v. Levy	900 So. 2d 737	32
2009	Green Tree Servicing, LLC v. McLeod	15 So. 3d 682	31
2004	Bolden v. State	875 So. 2d 780	31
2014	Wiggins v. Tigrent, Inc.†	147 So. 3d 76	29
2007	Walker v. State	965 So. 2d 1281	29
2004	Nussbaumer v. State	882 So. 2d 1067	29
2011	Jackson Hewitt, Inc. v. Kaman†	100 So. 3d 19	28
2009	Giacalone v. Helen Ellis Memorial Hospital Foundation, Inc.	8 So. 3d 1232	28

Showing the 15 most-cited of 603 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 Douglas A. Wallace on?: Douglas A. Wallace is a Judge of the Florida District Courts of Appeal.

Sources

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23 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).