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 2009

Edwin B. Browning

Judge, Florida District Courts of Appeal

Edwin B. Browning was a Judge of the Florida District Courts of Appeal, who joined the court in 1998. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1939 · age 87
Tenure: 1998–2009 · 11 yrs

Judicial service

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

Education

Florida State University
University of Florida

Judicial Record

In our data, Browning authored 376 published opinions for the court (1998–2009), plus 10 dissents and 24 concurrences. Most cited: Townsend Contracting v. JENSEN CIV. CONST. (94 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. 172 of these were attributed to Browning 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
1999	Townsend Contracting v. JENSEN CIV. CONST.	728 So. 2d 297	94
1999	State v. Williams	742 So. 2d 509	51
1999	Hines v. State	737 So. 2d 1182	46
2003	Wendy's of NE Florida, Inc. v. Vandergriff	865 So. 2d 520	43
2003	Cooper v. Gress	854 So. 2d 262	40
2009	Odom v. State	15 So. 3d 672	35
1999	Washington v. State	737 So. 2d 1208	32
2002	Sumlar v. Sumlar	827 So. 2d 1079	30
1999	Smith v. Smith	737 So. 2d 641	28
2001	E.M.A. v. Department of Children & Families†	795 So. 2d 183	27
2009	Rabbath v. Farid	4 So. 3d 778	26
2008	Spry v. Professional Employer Plans	985 So. 2d 1187	25
2002	Florida Nat. Organization for Women, Inc. v. State	832 So. 2d 911	24
2002	Martinez v. Collier County Public Schools	804 So. 2d 559	24
2001	McIlmoil v. McIlmoil	784 So. 2d 557	24

Showing the 15 most-cited of 412 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 Edwin B. Browning on?: Edwin B. Browning was a Judge of the Florida District Courts of Appeal.

Sources

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11 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).