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 1979 / Served to 1998

Hugh Glickstein

Judge, Florida District Courts of Appeal

Hugh Glickstein was a Judge of the Florida District Courts of Appeal, who joined the court in 1979. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1979–1998 · 19 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1979	Florida District Courts of Appeal	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Glickstein authored 543 published opinions for the court (1979–2000), plus 69 dissents and 134 concurrences. Most cited: Leon Shaffer Golnick Advertising, Inc. v. Cedar (73 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. 425 of these were attributed to Glickstein 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
1982	Leon Shaffer Golnick Advertising, Inc. v. Cedar	423 So. 2d 1015	73
1980	Ins. Field Services v. White & White Inspection	384 So. 2d 303	58
1982	Wright & Seaton, Inc. v. Prescott	420 So. 2d 623	51
1982	In Interest of JLP	416 So. 2d 1250	49
1980	Kearse v. State	384 So. 2d 272	45
1985	Bludworth v. Palm Beach Newspapers, Inc.	476 So. 2d 775	38
1987	Huhn v. State	511 So. 2d 583	36
1982	Vantage View, Inc. v. Bali East Development Corp.	421 So. 2d 728	35
1984	Cotton States Mut. Ins. Co. v. Turtle Reef Associates, Inc.	444 So. 2d 595	33
1984	State v. Hunwick	446 So. 2d 214	32
1980	Good v. Wille	382 So. 2d 408	31
1988	Larmer v. STATE, DEPT. OF HIGHWAY SAFETY	522 So. 2d 941	28
1984	City of Pompano Beach v. Capalbo	455 So. 2d 468	28
1986	Loxahatchee Ecd v. Sch. Bd. Palm Beach Cty.	496 So. 2d 930	27
1983	Davis v. State	436 So. 2d 196	27

Showing the 15 most-cited of 746 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 Hugh Glickstein on?: Hugh Glickstein was a Judge of the Florida District Courts of Appeal.

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19 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).