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 1952 / Served to 1971

E Harris Drew

Judge, Florida District Courts of Appeal

E Harris Drew was a Judge of the Florida District Courts of Appeal (102 judges, selected by merit selection with retention), who joined the court in 1952. He previously served on the Supreme Court of Florida. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1903–1975
Tenure: 1952–1971 · 18 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1952	Supreme Court of Florida	–	–
1952	Florida District Courts of Appeal	–	–

Education

Stetson University

Judicial Record

In our data, Drew authored 653 published opinions for the court (1952–1978), plus 82 dissents and 52 concurrences. Most cited: Carraway v. Revell (171 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. 442 of these were attributed to Drew 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
1959	Carraway v. Revell	116 So. 2d 16	171
1959	Susco Car Rental System of Florida v. Leonard	112 So. 2d 832	138
1953	Underwood v. Underwood	64 So. 2d 281	127
1954	Mayo v. State	71 So. 2d 899	113
1955	Parker v. Brinson Construction Company	78 So. 2d 873	107
1957	Kislak v. Kreedian	95 So. 2d 510	105
1958	Florida State Racing Commission v. McLaughlin	102 So. 2d 574	102
1974	Gilliam v. Stewart	291 So. 2d 593	91
1958	Ansin v. Thurston	101 So. 2d 808	83
1954	Ball v. Mann	75 So. 2d 758	83
1966	McNayr v. Kelly	184 So. 2d 428	79
1955	Hardy v. City of Tarpon Springs	81 So. 2d 503	78
1957	Farrey v. Bettendorf	96 So. 2d 889	75
1959	Harrell's Candy Kitchen, Inc. v. SARASOTA-MANATEE AIR. AUTH.	111 So. 2d 439	70
1953	Williams v. City of Lake City	62 So. 2d 732	68

Showing the 15 most-cited of 790 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 E Harris Drew on?: E Harris Drew was 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).