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 2008 / Active

Jay P. Cohen

Judge, Florida District Courts of Appeal

Jay P. Cohen is a Judge of the Florida District Courts of Appeal, serving since 2008. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2008 · 18 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2008	Florida District Courts of Appeal	–	–

Education

University of Florida
University of Florida

Judicial Record

In our data, Cohen authored 345 published opinions for the court (2008–2019), plus 9 dissents and 30 concurrences. Most cited: Bist v. State (30 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. 276 of these were attributed to Cohen 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
2010	Bist v. State	35 So. 3d 936	30
2012	Allstate Floridian Insurance Co. v. Farmer†	104 So. 3d 1242	28
2014	Motie v. Motie†	132 So. 3d 1210	26
2014	Holmes Regional Medical Center, Inc. v. Dumigan†	151 So. 3d 1282	25
2009	Ortiz v. State· Dissent†	24 So. 3d 596	25
2012	Schwieterman v. Schwieterman†	114 So. 3d 984	20
2011	Montijo v. State†	61 So. 3d 424	18
2012	Goss v. Human Services Associates, Inc.†	79 So. 3d 127	17
2011	Crusselle v. Mong†	59 So. 3d 1178	17
2009	Bailey v. State	21 So. 3d 147	17
2008	Johnson v. Office of State Attorney	987 So. 2d 206	17
2016	U.S. Bank National Ass'n v. Anthony-Irish†	204 So. 3d 57	16
2016	Brandon Stapler v. State†	190 So. 3d 162	16
2010	T & W DEVELOPERS, INC. v. Salmonsen	31 So. 3d 298	16
2012	Bilbrey v. Myers†	91 So. 3d 887	15

Showing the 15 most-cited of 387 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 is Jay P. Cohen on?: Jay P. Cohen is a Judge of the Florida District Courts of Appeal.

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18 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).