How do judges of the Supreme Court of Florida reach the bench?

The court's current selection method is merit selection with retention.

Supreme Court of Florida / Joined 2009 / Former Justice

James E.C. Perry

Justice, Supreme Court of Florida

James E.C. Perry was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Florida, who joined the court in 2009. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1944 · age 82
Tenure: 2009 · 17 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2009	Supreme Court of Florida	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Perry authored 37 published opinions for the court (2009–2017), plus 10 dissents and 20 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Adkins (570 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. 63 of these were attributed to Perry 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
2012	State v. Adkins· Dissent†	96 So. 3d 412	570
2016	Timothy Lee Hurst v. State of Florida· Concurrence†	202 So. 3d 40	545
2016	John F. Mosley v. State of Florida & SC14-2108 John F. Mosley v. Julie L. Jones, etc.· Concurrence†	209 So. 3d 1248	151
2015	Henry v. State†	175 So. 3d 675	141
2016	Ronald Williams v. State of Florida†	186 So. 3d 989	128
2016	Mark James Asay v. State of Florida, SC16-102 Mark James Asay v. Julie L. Jones, etc. & SC16-628 Mark James Asay v. Julie L. Jones, etc.· Dissent†	210 So. 3d 1	110
2016	Leon Davis, Jr. v. State of Florida· Concurrence†	207 So. 3d 142	82
2011	Shotts v. OP Winter Haven, Inc.†	86 So. 3d 456	74
2016	Leronnie Lee Walton v. State of Florida†	208 So. 3d 60	71
2016	Thomas Kelsey v. State of Florida†	206 So. 3d 5	67
2014	Roberto Basulto v. Hialeah Automotive, etc.†	141 So. 3d 1145	55
2016	Sidney Norvil, Jr. v. State of Florida†	191 So. 3d 406	48
2015	Shimeeka Daquiel Gridine v. State of Florida†	175 So. 3d 672	45
2016	Juan Mendez, Jr., etc. v. Hampton Court Nursing Center, LLC.†	203 So. 3d 146	43
2012	Southeast Floating Docks, Inc. v. Auto-Owners Insurance Co.· Dissent†	82 So. 3d 73	43

Showing the 15 most-cited of 67 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 Supreme Court of Florida reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is merit selection with retention.
Which court was James E.C. Perry on?: James E.C. Perry was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Florida.

Sources

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17 years on the Supreme Court of Florida. Data as of 2026-03-31. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).