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 2013 / Active

Edwin A. Scales III

Judge, Florida District Courts of Appeal

Edwin A. Scales III is a Judge of the Florida District Courts of Appeal, serving since 2013. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1966 · age 60
Tenure: Since 2013 · 12 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2013	Florida District Courts of Appeal	–	–

Education

University of Florida
University of Florida

Judicial Record

In our data, Scales authored 149 published opinions for the court (2014–2019), plus 2 dissents and 7 concurrences. Most cited: Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas, Etc. v. Beauvais (54 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. 158 of these were attributed to Scales 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
2016	Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas, Etc. v. Beauvais· Dissent†	188 So. 3d 938	54
2017	Peebles v. Puig†	223 So. 3d 1065	32
2017	Beckman v. State†	230 So. 3d 77	21
2016	Moriber v. Dreiling†	194 So. 3d 369	21
2016	Florida Community Bank, N.A. v. Red Road Residential, LLC†	197 So. 3d 1112	19
2016	TRG Desert Inn Venture, Ltd. v. Berezovsky†	194 So. 3d 516	18
2015	Almacenes El Globo De Quito, S. A. v. Dalbeta L.C.†	181 So. 3d 559	18
2015	Garcia v. Dyck-O'Neal, Inc.†	178 So. 3d 433	18
2015	TRG Columbus Development Venture, Ltd. v. Sifontes†	163 So. 3d 548	15
2016	De La Osa v. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.· Dissent†	208 So. 3d 259	13
2015	Marriott International, Inc. v. American Bridge Bahamas, Ltd.· Concurrence†	193 So. 3d 902	12
2016	Citibank, N.A. v. Olsak†	208 So. 3d 227	11
2016	G4s Secure Solutions USA, Inc., Etc. v. Golzar†	208 So. 3d 204	11
2016	Smith v. Reverse Mortgage Solutions, Inc.†	200 So. 3d 221	11
2016	Rv-7 Property, Inc. v. Stefani De La O, Inc.†	187 So. 3d 915	11

Showing the 15 most-cited of 158 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 Edwin A. Scales III on?: Edwin A. Scales III is a Judge of the Florida District Courts of Appeal.

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12 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).