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 1995 / Served to 2009

George A. Shahood

Judge, Florida District Courts of Appeal

George A. Shahood was a Judge of the Florida District Courts of Appeal, who joined the court in 1995. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1995–2009 · 14 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1995	Florida District Courts of Appeal	–	–

Education

Emory University
Mercer University

Judicial Record

In our data, Shahood authored 595 published opinions for the court (1991–2009), plus 10 dissents and 2 concurrences. Most cited: Friedman v. New York Life Ins. Co. (84 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. 264 of these were attributed to Shahood 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	Friedman v. New York Life Ins. Co.	985 So. 2d 56	84
1998	Dupree v. State	705 So. 2d 90	70
1996	Leichtman v. Singletary	674 So. 2d 889	42
1998	Seminole Boatyard, Inc. v. Christoph	715 So. 2d 987	41
2003	Rice-Lamar v. City of Fort Lauderdale	853 So. 2d 1125	40
2005	Schram v. Schram	932 So. 2d 245	38
1997	Greenfield v. Manor Care, Inc.	705 So. 2d 926	37
2000	Khosrow Maleki, P.A. v. M.A. Hajianpour, M.D., P.A.†	771 So. 2d 628	32
2005	DeMello v. Buckman	914 So. 2d 1090	31
1996	Pedraja v. Garcia	667 So. 2d 461	29
1998	Zorc v. City of Vero Beach	722 So. 2d 891	28
2005	Weiss v. Johansen	898 So. 2d 1009	27
1998	FORT LAUDERDALE LINCOLN v. Corgnati	715 So. 2d 311	27
2004	Szniatkiewicz v. Unemployment Appeals Com'n	864 So. 2d 498	26
2005	Byers v. Byers	910 So. 2d 336	25

Showing the 15 most-cited of 607 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 A. Shahood on?: George A. Shahood was a Judge of the Florida District Courts of Appeal.

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14 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).