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 1995 / Served to 2000

John Antoon II

Judge, Florida District Courts of Appeal

John Antoon II was a Judge of the Florida District Courts of Appeal, who joined the court in 1995. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1946 · age 80
Tenure: 1995–2000 · 5 yrs
Education: Florida Southern College 1968

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1995	Florida District Courts of Appeal	–	–

Education

Florida State University
Florida Southern College	B.A.	1968
Florida Institute of Technology	M.S.	1993

Judicial Record

In our data, Antoon authored 129 published opinions for the court (1995–2000), plus 3 dissents and 7 concurrences. Most cited: G.F.C. v. S.G. (50 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. 139 of these were attributed to Antoon 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
1997	G.F.C. v. S.G.†	686 So. 2d 1382	50
1995	D.D.M. v. State†	662 So. 2d 384	12
1999	Brown v. Suncharm Ranch, Inc.†	748 So. 2d 1077	10
1999	D.E.R. v. State†	744 So. 2d 1244	10
1996	J.M. v. State†	665 So. 2d 1135	9
1997	Villages at Mango Key Homeowners Ass'n v. Hunter Development, Inc.†	699 So. 2d 337	6
2000	State v. McFarland†	747 So. 2d 481	5
1999	A.P. v. State†	730 So. 2d 425	5
1996	Shaw v. Schlusemeyer†	683 So. 2d 1187	5
1996	N.T. v. State†	682 So. 2d 688	5
1997	Decker v. County of Volusia†	698 So. 2d 650	4
1997	Duckworth v. Plant†	697 So. 2d 1257	4
1997	Suntrust Banks of Florida, Inc. v. Don Wood, Inc.†	693 So. 2d 99	4
1996	P.M.W. v. State†	678 So. 2d 484	4
2000	Simmons v. State†	753 So. 2d 700	3

Showing the 15 most-cited of 139 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 Antoon II on?: John Antoon II was a Judge of the Florida District Courts of Appeal.

Sources

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5 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).