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 1976 / Served to 1978

James E. Alderman

Judge, Florida District Courts of Appeal

James E. Alderman was a Judge of the Florida District Courts of Appeal, who joined the court in 1976. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1976–1978 · 2 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1976	Florida District Courts of Appeal	–	–

Education

University of Florida
University of Florida

Judicial Record

In our data, Alderman authored 118 published opinions for the court (1975–1992), plus 7 dissents. Most cited: State v. Stevens (168 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. 36 of these were attributed to Alderman 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
1978	State v. Stevens	354 So. 2d 1244	168
1977	Nehleber v. Anzalone	345 So. 2d 822	48
1978	Pender v. Skillcraft Industries, Inc.	358 So. 2d 45	45
1978	Lowery v. State	356 So. 2d 1325	36
1976	Insurance Co. of North America v. King	340 So. 2d 1175	33
1976	Gordon v. WARREN HEATING & AC	340 So. 2d 1234	30
1976	Roper v. Roper	336 So. 2d 654	29
1976	National Ben Franklin Ins. Co. v. Hall	340 So. 2d 1269	25
1978	GENERAL ACC. FIRE & LIFE, ETC. v. Appleton	355 So. 2d 1261	21
1978	Ryder Truck Rental, Inc. v. Korte	357 So. 2d 228	20
1978	Brooks v. Cerrato	355 So. 2d 119	20
1977	Tosta v. State	352 So. 2d 526	20
1976	State v. Lundy	334 So. 2d 671	20
1978	Lightfoot v. State	356 So. 2d 331	19
1976	Burke v. Burke	336 So. 2d 1237	19

Showing the 15 most-cited of 125 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 E. Alderman on?: James E. Alderman was a Judge of the Florida District Courts of Appeal.

Sources

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2 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).