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 2000

James C. Dauksch

Judge, Florida District Courts of Appeal

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

Tenure: 1979–2000 · 21 yrs

Judicial service

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

Judicial Record

In our data, Dauksch authored 1,150 published opinions for the court (1977–2000), plus 92 dissents and 71 concurrences. Most cited: Williams v. City of Minneola (71 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. 837 of these were attributed to Dauksch 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
1991	Williams v. City of Minneola	575 So. 2d 683	71
1987	Seminole County v. Wood	512 So. 2d 1000	59
1991	Jefferson Ins. Co. v. Sea World of Florida, Inc.	586 So. 2d 95	44
1993	Fla. Fern Growers Ass'n v. Concerned Citizens	616 So. 2d 562	43
1983	Winn-Dixie Stores, Inc. v. Nakutis	435 So. 2d 307	42
1989	Robinson v. State	547 So. 2d 321	33
1984	Mohican Valley, Inc. v. MacDonald	443 So. 2d 479	33
1978	Ingram v. State	364 So. 2d 821	33
1978	Beneby v. State	354 So. 2d 98	33
1981	Marasa v. State	394 So. 2d 544	32
1986	State v. Collins	482 So. 2d 388	31
1980	Kirchman v. Kirchman	389 So. 2d 327	31
1992	Polizzi v. Polizzi	600 So. 2d 490	30
1985	Florida Telephone Corp. v. Essig	468 So. 2d 543	30
1979	Stipp v. State	371 So. 2d 712	30

Showing the 15 most-cited of 1,323 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 James C. Dauksch on?: James C. Dauksch was a Judge of the Florida District Courts of Appeal.

Sources

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21 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).