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 1989 / Served to 2000

Gilbert Goshorn

Judge, Florida District Courts of Appeal

Gilbert Goshorn was a Judge of the Florida District Courts of Appeal, who joined the court in 1989. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1934–2011
Tenure: 1989–2000 · 11 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1989	Florida District Courts of Appeal	–	–

Education

University of Florida
University of Florida

Judicial Record

In our data, Goshorn authored 346 published opinions for the court (1985–1999), plus 21 dissents and 12 concurrences. Most cited: Premier Ins. Co. v. Adams (77 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. 204 of these were attributed to Goshorn 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
1994	Premier Ins. Co. v. Adams	632 So. 2d 1054	77
1990	Flowers v. State	567 So. 2d 1055	58
1998	Williams v. Bear Stearns & Co.	725 So. 2d 397	56
1997	Warner v. Warner	692 So. 2d 266	42
1989	Walker v. State	546 So. 2d 764	41
1992	Price v. State	598 So. 2d 215	35
1999	DEPARTMENT OF CHILDREN & FAM. v. Benway	745 So. 2d 437	33
1989	Kelly v. State	552 So. 2d 206	30
1999	McFarland & Son, Inc. v. Basel	727 So. 2d 266	26
1995	State v. Burns	661 So. 2d 842	24
1989	Rumph v. State	544 So. 2d 1150	24
1997	Stanfield v. Salvation Army	695 So. 2d 501	22
1990	Power v. State	568 So. 2d 511	22
1999	Calderon v. Calderon	730 So. 2d 400	20
1990	Taylor v. State	558 So. 2d 1092	20

Showing the 15 most-cited of 380 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 Gilbert Goshorn on?: Gilbert Goshorn was a Judge of the Florida District Courts of Appeal.

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11 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).