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 1970 / Served to 1977

Gerald Mager

Judge, Florida District Courts of Appeal

Gerald Mager was a Judge of the Florida District Courts of Appeal, who joined the court in 1970. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1970–1977 · 7 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1970	Florida District Courts of Appeal	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Mager authored 136 published opinions for the court (1971–1994), plus 55 dissents and 14 concurrences. Most cited: Elmex Corp. v. Atlantic Federal Savings & Loan Ass'n of Fort Lauderdale (98 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. 101 of these were attributed to Mager 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
1976	Elmex Corp. v. Atlantic Federal Savings & Loan Ass'n of Fort Lauderdale†	325 So. 2d 58	98
1972	Seaboard Coast LR Co. v. Industrial Contracting Company	260 So. 2d 860	64
1972	Six L'S Packing Co. v. Florida Farm Bur. Mut. Ins. Co.	268 So. 2d 560	59
1971	Steinhauer v. Steinhauer	252 So. 2d 825	54
1972	Beefy Trail, Inc. v. Beefy King Int'l	267 So. 2d 853	52
1974	Kalmutz v. Kalmutz	299 So. 2d 30	45
1975	Fiber Crete Homes, Inc. v. DIVISON OF ADM., DEPT. OF TR.	315 So. 2d 492	44
1973	Ivey Plants, Inc. v. FMC Corporation	282 So. 2d 205	41
1973	IDS Properties, Inc. v. Town of Palm Beach	279 So. 2d 353	41
1971	Lang v. Lang	252 So. 2d 809	40
1975	State Ex Rel. Gore Newspapers Company v. Tyson	313 So. 2d 777	39
1971	Crystal Lake Golf Course, Inc. v. Kalin	252 So. 2d 379	37
1973	State v. Hetzko	283 So. 2d 49	35
1974	Stuart v. Hertz Corporation	302 So. 2d 187	32
1973	Jones v. Hoffman	272 So. 2d 529	32

Showing the 15 most-cited of 205 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 Gerald Mager on?: Gerald Mager was a Judge of the Florida District Courts of Appeal.

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7 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).