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 2003

James R. Jorgenson

Judge, Florida District Courts of Appeal

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

Lived: 1937–2003
Tenure: 1981–2003 · 22 yrs

Judicial service

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

Education

Florida State University
Florida State University

Judicial Record

In our data, Jorgenson authored 165 published opinions for the court (1981–2002), plus 60 dissents and 19 concurrences. Most cited: Major v. State (93 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. 203 of these were attributed to Jorgenson 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
2001	Major v. State	790 So. 2d 550	93
2001	Broadfoot v. Broadfoot	791 So. 2d 584	34
1996	SEC. Bank v. Bellsouth Adv. & Pub. Corp.	679 So. 2d 795	28
1989	B.S. v. State· Dissent†	548 So. 2d 838	23
2000	deMCO TECHNO., INC. v. CC ENGINEERED CASTINGS, INC.	769 So. 2d 1128	21
2000	Munoz Ex Rel. Munoz v. South Miami Hosp., Inc.	764 So. 2d 854	21
1996	Paradise Plaza Condominium Ass'n v. Reinsurance Corp. of New York· Dissent†	685 So. 2d 937	20
2002	H.A.P. v. State· Dissent†	834 So. 2d 237	16
1989	Pellerito Foods, Inc. v. American Conveyors Corp.	542 So. 2d 426	15
2001	Sardinas v. Lagares†	805 So. 2d 1024	14
1989	Sarduy v. State	540 So. 2d 203	12
1987	Gargone v. State†	503 So. 2d 421	12
2001	Chimerakis v. Sentry Ins. Mut. Co.	804 So. 2d 476	10
1997	Delva v. Value Rent-A-Car	693 So. 2d 574	10
2000	Prymus v. Prymus	753 So. 2d 742	9

Showing the 15 most-cited of 244 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 R. Jorgenson on?: James R. Jorgenson was a Judge of the Florida District Courts of Appeal.

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22 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).