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 1958 / Served to 1968

George T. Shannon

Judge, Florida District Courts of Appeal

George T. Shannon was a Judge of the Florida District Courts of Appeal, who joined the court in 1958. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1900–1969
Tenure: 1958–1968 · 10 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1958	Florida District Courts of Appeal	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Shannon authored 385 published opinions for the court (1958–1968), plus 4 dissents and 2 concurrences. Most cited: Russell v. Community Blood Bank, Inc. (41 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. 251 of these were attributed to Shannon 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
1966	Russell v. Community Blood Bank, Inc.	185 So. 2d 749	41
1965	Nicholson v. American Fire and Casualty Insurance Company	177 So. 2d 52	41
1965	Wilkerson v. Wilkerson	179 So. 2d 592	27
1966	Dixon v. Dixon	184 So. 2d 478	26
1965	Young v. State	177 So. 2d 345	24
1967	McCausland v. Davis	204 So. 2d 334	22
1966	Collins Fruit Company v. Giglio	184 So. 2d 447	22
1963	Cash v. Gates	151 So. 2d 838	22
1959	Rinehart v. State	114 So. 2d 487	22
1962	Fiore v. Rogero	144 So. 2d 99	21
1961	Universal Underwriters Insurance Corp. v. Reynolds	129 So. 2d 689	21
1960	Cochran v. Abercrombie	118 So. 2d 636	21
1959	O'NEILL v. Broadview, Inc.	112 So. 2d 280	20
1958	Sutton v. Crane	101 So. 2d 823	20
1962	State Road Department v. White	148 So. 2d 32	19

Showing the 15 most-cited of 391 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 T. Shannon on?: George T. Shannon was a Judge of the Florida District Courts of Appeal.

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10 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).