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 1991 / Served to 2011

Gary Farmer

Judge, Florida District Courts of Appeal

Gary Farmer was a Judge of the Florida District Courts of Appeal, who joined the court in 1991. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1991–2011 · 20 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1991	Florida District Courts of Appeal	–	–

Education

Florida Atlantic University
University of Toledo

Judicial Record

In our data, Farmer authored 926 published opinions for the court (1991–2010), plus 53 dissents and 43 concurrences. Most cited: Bared & Co., Inc. v. McGuire (128 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. 474 of these were attributed to Farmer 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
1996	Bared & Co., Inc. v. McGuire	670 So. 2d 153	128
1993	Schmidt v. Fortner	629 So. 2d 1036	74
2006	Yisrael v. State	938 So. 2d 546	72
1992	Ronbeck Const. Co., Inc. v. Savanna Club Corp.	592 So. 2d 344	70
1999	Blakley v. State	746 So. 2d 1182	56
1997	Westmoreland v. Lumbermens Mut. Cas. Co.	704 So. 2d 176	55
1994	Hillman Const. Corp. v. Wainer	636 So. 2d 576	55
1996	State Farm Fire & Cas. v. Deni Assoc.	678 So. 2d 397	40
1992	Moorman v. American Safety Equipment	594 So. 2d 795	40
1991	Robbie v. Robbie	591 So. 2d 1006	37
1999	McFadden v. State	732 So. 2d 1180	34
1997	Sholkoff v. BOCA RATON COMMUNITY HOSP.	693 So. 2d 1114	34
1996	Slawson v. Fast Food Enterprises	671 So. 2d 255	34
1991	Henn v. Sandler	589 So. 2d 1334	30
2009	Hedrick v. State· Concurrence†	6 So. 3d 688	29

Showing the 15 most-cited of 1,025 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 Gary Farmer on?: Gary Farmer was a Judge of the Florida District Courts of Appeal.

Sources

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20 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).