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 2013

Fred A. Hazouri

Judge, Florida District Courts of Appeal

Fred A. Hazouri was a Judge of the Florida District Courts of Appeal, who joined the court in 1998. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1998–2013 · 15 yrs

Judicial service

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

Education

University of Florida
University of Florida

Judicial Record

In our data, Hazouri authored 422 published opinions for the court (1997–2012), plus 6 dissents and 14 concurrences. Most cited: Acoustic Innovations, Inc. v. Schafer (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. 170 of these were attributed to Hazouri 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
2008	Acoustic Innovations, Inc. v. Schafer	976 So. 2d 1139	49
1999	State v. Wise	744 So. 2d 1035	45
2000	Amerisure Ins. Co. v. GOLD COAST MARINE DIST., INC.	771 So. 2d 579	44
2004	Lee v. State	868 So. 2d 577	40
2000	Curtis v. State	748 So. 2d 370	40
2001	Davis v. State	804 So. 2d 400	38
2000	Barakat v. Broward County Housing Authority	771 So. 2d 1193	37
2007	Aversano v. State	966 So. 2d 493	34
2002	American Financial Trading Corp. v. Bauer	828 So. 2d 1071	34
1999	State v. Huggins	744 So. 2d 1215	34
2002	Reeves v. North Broward Hosp. Dist.	821 So. 2d 319	32
2002	Gilbert v. State	817 So. 2d 980	32
2000	Porter v. State	765 So. 2d 76	31
2004	MEBA Medical & Benefits Plan v. Lago	867 So. 2d 1184	30
2001	Weatherby Associates, Inc. v. Ballack	783 So. 2d 1138	30

Showing the 15 most-cited of 442 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 Fred A. Hazouri on?: Fred A. Hazouri was a Judge of the Florida District Courts of Appeal.

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15 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).