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 1998 / Served to 2008

E J. Salcines

Judge, Florida District Courts of Appeal

E J. Salcines was a Judge of the Florida District Courts of Appeal, who joined the court in 1998. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1938 · age 88
Tenure: 1998–2008 · 10 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1998	Florida District Courts of Appeal	–	–

Education

Florida Southern College
South Texas College of Law

Judicial Record

In our data, Salcines authored 357 published opinions for the court (1999–2010), plus 2 dissents and 1 concurrence. Most cited: Brown v. State (188 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. 190 of these were attributed to Salcines 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
2002	Brown v. State	827 So. 2d 1054	188
2007	WAITER v. State	965 So. 2d 861	83
2003	Roessler v. Novak	858 So. 2d 1158	36
2003	State v. Odom	862 So. 2d 56	35
2000	Gibbs Const. Co. v. SL Page Corp.	755 So. 2d 787	29
2008	Woebse v. Health Care and Retirement Corp.	977 So. 2d 630	27
2006	R.J.K. v. State†	928 So. 2d 499	19
2000	D.C.W. v. State†	775 So. 2d 363	17
2006	RESOURCE HEALTHCARE OF AMERICA v. McKinney	940 So. 2d 1139	16
2003	Zangari v. Cunningham	839 So. 2d 918	15
2002	Healthcomp Evaluation Serv., Corporation v. O'Donnell	817 So. 2d 1095	15
2005	Durden v. State	901 So. 2d 967	13
2005	Henderson v. Henderson	905 So. 2d 901	12
2003	Smith v. State	849 So. 2d 485	12
2003	Walker v. State	846 So. 2d 643	12

Showing the 15 most-cited of 360 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 J. Salcines on?: E J. Salcines 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).