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 1984 / Served to 2009

Edward T. Barfield

Judge, Florida District Courts of Appeal

Edward T. Barfield was a Judge of the Florida District Courts of Appeal, who joined the court in 1984. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1943 · age 83
Tenure: 1984–2009 · 25 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1984	Florida District Courts of Appeal	–	–

Education

Davidson College
Tulane University of Louisiana

Judicial Record

In our data, Barfield authored 643 published opinions for the court (1984–2009), plus 34 dissents and 28 concurrences. Most cited: Harris v. Lewis State Bank (49 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. 438 of these were attributed to Barfield 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
1986	Harris v. Lewis State Bank	482 So. 2d 1378	49
1989	Gipson v. State	537 So. 2d 1080	45
1989	Daniels v. State	543 So. 2d 363	42
1989	Rowland v. State	548 So. 2d 812	35
1989	B & H Const. & Supply Co., Inc. v. Dist. Bd. of Trustess, Tallahassee Com. College of Fla.	542 So. 2d 382	34
1993	In the Interest of L.A.D. v. State· Dissent†	616 So. 2d 106	33
1984	Young v. State	455 So. 2d 551	33
2001	L.S. v. State†	805 So. 2d 1004	31
2000	Paulk v. State	765 So. 2d 147	28
1987	Kama v. State	507 So. 2d 154	25
1986	Davis v. State	493 So. 2d 82	24
1985	Standard Blasting & Coating v. Hayman	476 So. 2d 1385	24
1989	Jenkins v. State	547 So. 2d 1017	23
1988	In the Interest of F.P. v. State†	528 So. 2d 1253	23
1988	McKinnon v. State	523 So. 2d 1238	23

Showing the 15 most-cited of 705 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 Edward T. Barfield on?: Edward T. Barfield was a Judge of the Florida District Courts of Appeal.

Sources

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25 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).