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 2005 / Active

Edward C. Larose

Judge, Florida District Courts of Appeal

Edward C. Larose is a Judge of the Florida District Courts of Appeal, serving since 2005. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1955 · age 71
Tenure: Since 2005 · 21 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2005	Florida District Courts of Appeal	–	–

Education

Boston College

Judicial Record

In our data, Larose authored 437 published opinions for the court (2005–2019), plus 3 dissents and 16 concurrences. Most cited: Bizzell v. State (59 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. 290 of these were attributed to Larose 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
2005	Bizzell v. State	912 So. 2d 386	59
2013	Savage v. State†	120 So. 3d 619	46
2010	Mathis v. Coats	24 So. 3d 1284	36
2006	Bland v. Health Care and Retirement Corp.	927 So. 2d 252	36
2008	Goff v. State Farm Florida Ins. Co.	999 So. 2d 684	35
2007	FIRST FLORIDIAN AUTO & HOME INS. v. Myrick	969 So. 2d 1121	25
2016	Brindise v. U.S. Bank National Association†	183 So. 3d 1215	19
2012	SCG Harbourwood, LLC v. Hanyan†	93 So. 3d 1197	19
2007	M.A.B. v. State· Dissent†	957 So. 2d 1219	19
2011	Paul v. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.	68 So. 3d 979	18
2006	Pratte v. State†	946 So. 2d 1184	18
2007	SOURCETRACK, LLC v. Ariba, Inc.	958 So. 2d 523	17
2011	Allard v. Al-Nayem International, Inc.†	59 So. 3d 198	16
2005	Smith v. Smith	912 So. 2d 702	16
2007	DeLoach v. Aird	989 So. 2d 652	15

Showing the 15 most-cited of 456 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 Edward C. Larose on?: Edward C. Larose is a Judge of the Florida District Courts of Appeal.

Sources

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21 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).