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 1981 / Served to 1997

Jack R. Schoonover

Judge, Florida District Courts of Appeal

Jack R. Schoonover was a Judge of the Florida District Courts of Appeal, who joined the court in 1981. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1934–2013
Tenure: 1981–1997 · 16 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1981	Florida District Courts of Appeal	–	–

Education

Winona State University
University of Florida

Judicial Record

In our data, Schoonover authored 370 published opinions for the court (1977–1997), plus 9 dissents and 4 concurrences. Most cited: Garcia v. Duffy (122 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. 159 of these were attributed to Schoonover 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
1986	Garcia v. Duffy	492 So. 2d 435	122
1985	Atlantic Nat. Bank of Florida v. Vest	480 So. 2d 1328	59
1989	Gomes v. Stevens	548 So. 2d 1163	45
1984	Hay v. Independent Newspapers, Inc.	450 So. 2d 293	38
1983	Williams v. State	427 So. 2d 768	36
1990	Donley v. State	557 So. 2d 943	35
1981	Dept. of M. Veh., Etc v. Mercedes-Benz, Etc.	408 So. 2d 627	34
1983	Westinghouse Elev. Co. v. Dfs Const. Co.	438 So. 2d 125	31
1987	State v. Riehl	504 So. 2d 798	29
1984	Bradford v. State	460 So. 2d 926	29
1990	Peabody v. State	556 So. 2d 826	27
1982	Albert v. Albert	415 So. 2d 818	27
1982	News-Press Pub. Co., Inc. v. Carlson	410 So. 2d 546	27
1992	Weldon v. All American Life Ins. Co.	605 So. 2d 911	25
1992	Johnson v. Dowell	592 So. 2d 1194	25

Showing the 15 most-cited of 383 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 Jack R. Schoonover on?: Jack R. Schoonover was a Judge of the Florida District Courts of Appeal.

Sources

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16 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).