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 1985 / Served to 1991

George W. Hersey

Judge, Florida District Courts of Appeal

George W. Hersey was a Judge of the Florida District Courts of Appeal, who joined the court in 1985. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1985–1991 · 6 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1985	Florida District Courts of Appeal	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Hersey authored 512 published opinions for the court (1979–1995), plus 8 dissents and 4 concurrences. Most cited: Holiday Inns, Inc. v. Shelburne (62 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. 133 of these were attributed to Hersey 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
1991	Holiday Inns, Inc. v. Shelburne	576 So. 2d 322	62
1981	Oceanic Intern. Corp. v. Lantana Boatyard	402 So. 2d 507	48
1981	Kohl v. Bay Colony Club Condominium, Inc.	398 So. 2d 865	44
1980	Guin v. City of Riviera Beach	388 So. 2d 604	42
1988	Brandt v. Brandt	525 So. 2d 1017	40
1991	Fecteau v. Southeast Bank, NA	585 So. 2d 1005	38
1982	Seigle v. Barry	422 So. 2d 63	38
1980	B/G AMUSEMENTS, INC. v. Mystery Fun House	381 So. 2d 318	38
1987	Singer v. Star	510 So. 2d 637	35
1982	Migliore v. City of Lauderhill	415 So. 2d 62	35
1993	Parker v. Domino's Pizza, Inc.	629 So. 2d 1026	34
1984	Whitehead v. State	446 So. 2d 194	34
1982	Kelly v. State	414 So. 2d 1117	33
1983	Romero v. State	435 So. 2d 318	32
1980	Lawrence v. Lawrence	384 So. 2d 279	32

Showing the 15 most-cited of 524 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 W. Hersey on?: George W. Hersey was a Judge of the Florida District Courts of Appeal.

Sources

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6 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).