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 1961 / Served to 2008

Jack Farrington White

Judge, Florida District Courts of Appeal

Jack Farrington White was a Judge of the Florida District Courts of Appeal, who joined the court in 1961. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1898 · age 128
Tenure: 1961–2008 · 47 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1961	Florida District Courts of Appeal	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, White authored 151 published opinions for the court (1960–1999), plus 7 dissents and 3 concurrences. Most cited: Deese v. White Belt Dairy Farms, Inc. (39 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. 80 of these were attributed to White 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
1964	Deese v. White Belt Dairy Farms, Inc.	160 So. 2d 543	39
1964	Darty v. State	161 So. 2d 864	38
1961	Nance v. Ball	134 So. 2d 35	36
1965	Haines v. St. Petersburg Methodist Home, Inc.	173 So. 2d 176	28
1963	Urga v. State	155 So. 2d 719	26
1962	Bacon v. Karr	139 So. 2d 166	23
1962	Parrish v. General Motors Corporation	137 So. 2d 255	23
1962	McQuown v. Lakeland Window Cleaning Co.	136 So. 2d 370	22
1965	Wrains v. Rose	175 So. 2d 75	21
1963	Williams v. Scott	153 So. 2d 18	19
1962	In Re Levy's Estate	141 So. 2d 803	19
1961	Town of Mount Dora v. Bryant	128 So. 2d 4	19
1963	Baader v. Walker	153 So. 2d 51	18
1963	Ames v. Ames	153 So. 2d 737	17
1962	Ebert v. State	140 So. 2d 63	17

Showing the 15 most-cited of 161 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 Farrington White on?: Jack Farrington White was a Judge of the Florida District Courts of Appeal.

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47 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).