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 1967 / Served to 1973

John Alton Reed Jr.

Judge, Florida District Courts of Appeal

John Alton Reed Jr. was a Judge of the Florida District Courts of Appeal, who joined the court in 1967. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1967–1973 · 6 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1967	Florida District Courts of Appeal	–	–

Education

Duke University
Duke University

Judicial Record

In our data, Reed authored 169 published opinions for the court (1967–1973), plus 10 dissents and 5 concurrences. Most cited: Nelson v. State (400 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. 93 of these were attributed to Reed 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
1973	Nelson v. State	274 So. 2d 256	400
1973	Wolfson v. Kirk	273 So. 2d 774	68
1970	Anderson v. Trade Winds Enterprises Corp.	241 So. 2d 174	37
1971	Williams v. State	252 So. 2d 243	35
1971	Gulf Cities Gas Corp. v. Tangelo Park Service Co.	253 So. 2d 744	32
1971	Ocean Ridge Develop. Corp. v. Quality Plastering, Inc.	247 So. 2d 72	32
1969	James v. State	223 So. 2d 52	32
1969	Warner v. Florida Jai Alai, Inc.	221 So. 2d 777	30
1970	Merrill Lynch, Pierce, F. & S., Inc. v. National Bk., Etc.	238 So. 2d 665	29
1970	Brown v. State	232 So. 2d 55	27
1973	Griffin v. State	276 So. 2d 191	26
1973	Mills v. Robert W. Gottfried, Inc.	272 So. 2d 837	26
1971	Wilcox v. State	248 So. 2d 692	26
1971	Nat Harrison Associates, Inc. v. Byrd	256 So. 2d 50	25
1969	Brumley v. State	224 So. 2d 447	25

Showing the 15 most-cited of 185 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 John Alton Reed Jr. on?: John Alton Reed Jr. was a Judge of the Florida District Courts of Appeal.

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6 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).