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 1975 / Served to 1988

E Richard Mills Jr.

Judge, Florida District Courts of Appeal

E Richard Mills Jr. was a Judge of the Florida District Courts of Appeal, who joined the court in 1975. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1919–1996
Tenure: 1975–1988 · 13 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1975	Florida District Courts of Appeal	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Mills authored 1,178 published opinions for the court (1973–1988), plus 42 dissents and 20 concurrences. Most cited: Gust v. State (38 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. 703 of these were attributed to Mills 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
1988	Gust v. State	535 So. 2d 642	38
1986	McKay v. State	504 So. 2d 1280	36
1980	Carlyon v. Weeks	387 So. 2d 465	34
1979	West v. Troelstrup	367 So. 2d 253	34
1985	AMERICAN EMPLOYERS'INS. CO. v. Taylor	476 So. 2d 281	30
1985	DON L. TULLIS & ASSOCIATES v. Benge	473 So. 2d 1384	30
1984	Mincey v. State	460 So. 2d 396	29
1978	Simmons v. Owens	363 So. 2d 142	29
1987	Ortagus v. State	500 So. 2d 1367	28
1976	Jones v. Jones	330 So. 2d 536	28
1986	Myers v. State	499 So. 2d 895	27
1979	Van Zant v. State	372 So. 2d 502	27
1987	Universal Under. Ins. v. Steve Hull	513 So. 2d 218	26
1984	Dickey v. State	458 So. 2d 1156	26
1985	Sabb v. State	479 So. 2d 845	25

Showing the 15 most-cited of 1,244 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 Richard Mills Jr. on?: E Richard Mills Jr. was a Judge of the Florida District Courts of Appeal.

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13 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).