How do judges of the Supreme Court of Florida reach the bench?

The court's current selection method is merit selection with retention.

Supreme Court of Florida / Joined 1987 / Served to 1998

Gerald Kogan

Justice, Supreme Court of Florida

Gerald Kogan was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Florida, who joined the court in 1987. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1933 · age 93
Tenure: 1987–1998 · 11 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1987	Supreme Court of Florida	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Kogan authored 169 published opinions for the court (1987–1999), plus 43 dissents and 18 concurrences. Most cited: McCain v. Florida Power Corporation (474 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. 84 of these were attributed to Kogan 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
1992	McCain v. Florida Power Corporation	593 So. 2d 500	474
1987	State v. Causey	503 So. 2d 321	441
1996	Kinney System, Inc. v. Continental Ins. Co.	674 So. 2d 86	218
1995	State v. Schopp	653 So. 2d 1016	199
1992	Haag v. State	591 So. 2d 614	187
1994	Walls v. State	641 So. 2d 381	132
1995	Johnson v. State	660 So. 2d 637	120
1992	Lamont v. State	610 So. 2d 435	111
1993	DEPT. OF HEALTH & REHAB. SERVICES v. Privette	617 So. 2d 305	105
1996	McGhee v. Volusia County	679 So. 2d 729	102
1988	Sturiano v. Brooks	523 So. 2d 1126	101
1989	Schnurmacher Holding, Inc. v. Noriega	542 So. 2d 1327	98
1991	Tillman v. State	591 So. 2d 167	92
1994	Department of Revenue v. Kuhnlein	646 So. 2d 717	91
1991	Larson v. State	572 So. 2d 1368	90

Showing the 15 most-cited of 230 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 Supreme Court of Florida reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is merit selection with retention.
Which court was Gerald Kogan on?: Gerald Kogan was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Florida.

Sources

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11 years on the Supreme Court of Florida. Data as of 2026-03-31. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).