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 1987 / Served to 2001

Edward F. Threadgill

Judge, Florida District Courts of Appeal

Edward F. Threadgill was a Judge of the Florida District Courts of Appeal, who joined the court in 1987. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1987–2001 · 14 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1987	Florida District Courts of Appeal	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Threadgill authored 513 published opinions for the court (1983–2007), plus 4 dissents and 1 concurrence. Most cited: Tillman v. State (41 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. 271 of these were attributed to Threadgill 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
1992	Tillman v. State	592 So. 2d 767	41
1987	Walker v. State	514 So. 2d 1149	39
1991	Lewis v. State	574 So. 2d 245	30
1995	Fitts v. State	649 So. 2d 300	25
1989	Hawk v. Seaboard System RR, Inc.	547 So. 2d 669	23
2000	C.A.C. v. State†	771 So. 2d 1261	22
1991	Winters v. State	578 So. 2d 5	22
1989	Jordan v. State	544 So. 2d 1073	22
1993	Ragoonanan v. Assocs. in Obstetrics & Gynecology	619 So. 2d 482	21
1992	Kotsch v. Kotsch	608 So. 2d 879	20
1989	E.B. v. State†	537 So. 2d 148	20
1990	Delgado v. State	573 So. 2d 83	19
1990	Bill Branch Chev., Inc. v. Philip L. Burnett, Pa	555 So. 2d 455	19
1988	Molina v. State	520 So. 2d 320	19
2003	Bell v. State	835 So. 2d 392	18

Showing the 15 most-cited of 518 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 F. Threadgill on?: Edward F. Threadgill was a Judge of the Florida District Courts of Appeal.

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14 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).