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 1990 / Served to 1995

George Diamantis

Judge, Florida District Courts of Appeal

George Diamantis was a Judge of the Florida District Courts of Appeal, who joined the court in 1990. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1990–1995 · 5 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1990	Florida District Courts of Appeal	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Diamantis authored 163 published opinions for the court (1975–1995), plus 3 dissents and 4 concurrences. Most cited: Kingsley v. Kingsley (70 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. 67 of these were attributed to Diamantis 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
1993	Kingsley v. Kingsley	623 So. 2d 780	70
1993	Williams v. City of Minneola	619 So. 2d 983	45
1984	Wieczoreck v. H & H BUILDERS, INC.	450 So. 2d 867	37
1994	Hirsch v. Hirsch	642 So. 2d 20	32
1991	Kolovrat v. State	574 So. 2d 294	32
1994	Abernethy v. Fishkin	638 So. 2d 160	29
1992	Ogden v. State	605 So. 2d 155	28
1993	Conahan v. DEPT. OF HWY. SAFETY AND MOTOR VEHICLES	619 So. 2d 988	26
1994	Hobbs v. Don Mealey Chevrolet, Inc.	642 So. 2d 1149	21
1995	Nichols v. Paulucci	652 So. 2d 389	20
1992	Bayer v. State	597 So. 2d 870	20
1991	Siegel v. State	586 So. 2d 1341	20
1991	Orlando/Orange County Expressway Authority v. W & F Agrigrowth-Fernfield, Ltd.	582 So. 2d 790	19
1991	Setzer v. State	575 So. 2d 747	19
1992	Thompson v. Doe	596 So. 2d 1178	17

Showing the 15 most-cited of 170 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 George Diamantis on?: George Diamantis was a Judge of the Florida District Courts of Appeal.

Sources

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5 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).