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 1943 / Served to 1965

Harold Sebring

Judge, Florida District Courts of Appeal

Harold Sebring was a Judge of the Florida District Courts of Appeal, who joined the court in 1943. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1943–1965 · 22 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1943	Florida District Courts of Appeal	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Sebring authored 8 published opinions for the court (1958–1965). Most cited: Matthews v. Matthews (31 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. 2 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
1961	Matthews v. Matthews	133 So. 2d 91	31
1960	Jacobi v. Claude Nolan, Inc.	122 So. 2d 783	19
1960	Siesta Properties, Inc. v. Hart	122 So. 2d 218	16
1959	Meyer v. Florida Industrial Commission	117 So. 2d 216	12
1965	Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company v. Pinellas Central Bank & Trust Company	175 So. 2d 245	8
1958	Melvin v. West	107 So. 2d 156	8
1959	Markos v. Raimondi†	108 So. 2d 506	3
1958	Duval v. State†	104 So. 2d 789	3

Showing the 8 most-cited of 8 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 Harold Sebring on?: Harold Sebring was a Judge of the Florida District Courts of Appeal.

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22 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).