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 1943 / Served to 1955

H. L. Sebring

Justice, Supreme Court of Florida

H. L. Sebring was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Florida, who joined the court in 1943. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1898–1968
Tenure: 1943–1955 · 12 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1943	Supreme Court of Florida	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Sebring authored 436 published opinions for the court (1936–1966), plus 14 dissents and 7 concurrences. Most cited: Alsop v. Pierce (316 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. 99 of these were attributed to Sebring 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
1944	Alsop v. Pierce	19 So. 2d 799	316
1953	Donahue v. Davis	68 So. 2d 163	78
1949	Cone v. Inter County Telephone Telegraph Co.	40 So. 2d 148	77
1953	Canell v. Arcola Housing Corp.	65 So. 2d 849	71
1953	Florida Power & Light Co. v. Robinson	68 So. 2d 406	70
1946	Miami Water Works Local No. 654 v. City of Miami	26 So. 2d 194	70
1953	Bessett v. Hackett	66 So. 2d 694	66
1954	Melton v. State	75 So. 2d 291	62
1945	Knowles v. Henderson	22 So. 2d 384	61
1944	Florida Forest & Park Service v. Eston Strickland	18 So. 2d 251	59
1944	Williams v. Aeroland Oil Company	20 So. 2d 346	55
1953	Loeb v. Geronemus	66 So. 2d 241	52
1954	Griffin v. Workman	73 So. 2d 844	46
1948	Pembroke v. Caudill	37 So. 2d 538	46
1953	Sneed v. Mayo	66 So. 2d 865	45

Showing the 15 most-cited of 466 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 H. L. Sebring on?: H. L. Sebring was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Florida.

Sources

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12 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).