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 1958 / Served to 1963

Harry Sandler

Judge, Florida District Courts of Appeal

Harry Sandler was a Judge of the Florida District Courts of Appeal, who joined the court in 1958. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1958–1963 · 5 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1958	Florida District Courts of Appeal	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Sandler authored 7 published opinions for the court (1958–1963). Most cited: Christ v. Progressive Fire Insurance Company (17 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. 1 of these was attributed to Sandler 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
1958	Christ v. Progressive Fire Insurance Company	101 So. 2d 821	17
1963	Bargeon v. Bargeon	153 So. 2d 10	13
1963	Tom v. State Ex Rel. Tom	153 So. 2d 334	12
1959	Brown v. State†	111 So. 2d 296	10
1962	Rofer v. Jensen	141 So. 2d 791	9
1960	Chapman v. Campbell	119 So. 2d 61	7
1958	Florida National Bank of Jacksonville v. Gann	101 So. 2d 579	7

Showing the 7 most-cited of 7 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 Harry Sandler on?: Harry Sandler was a Judge of the Florida District Courts of Appeal.

Sources

Each fact on this page traces to a primary public record.

How we source & reconcile data → Data & Sources

See something wrong? Report an error. Fixes are logged in the corrections log.

5 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).