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 1979 / Served to 1984

John R. Beranek

Judge, Florida District Courts of Appeal

John R. Beranek was a Judge of the Florida District Courts of Appeal, who joined the court in 1979. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1979–1984 · 5 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1979	Florida District Courts of Appeal	–	–

Education

Florida State University
University of Florida

Judicial Record

In our data, Beranek authored 355 published opinions for the court (1975–1984), plus 23 dissents and 11 concurrences. Most cited: American Medical Intern. v. Scheller (61 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. 208 of these were attributed to Beranek 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
1984	American Medical Intern. v. Scheller	462 So. 2d 1	61
1980	Contemporary Interiors v. Four Marks, Inc.	384 So. 2d 734	32
1980	Kauffmann v. Baker	392 So. 2d 13	28
1982	Carida v. Holy Cross Hosp., Inc.	424 So. 2d 849	27
1979	Dania Jai Alai Intern., Inc. v. Murua	375 So. 2d 57	26
1979	Citrus Central v. Detwiler	368 So. 2d 81	24
1977	Louis v. South Broward Hospital Dist.	353 So. 2d 562	24
1975	Hyman v. Hyman	310 So. 2d 378	24
1981	Del Prado v. Liberty Mut. Ins. Co.	400 So. 2d 115	23
1980	Velickovich v. Ricci	391 So. 2d 258	22
1980	Jones v. State	384 So. 2d 736	22
1980	McClain v. State	383 So. 2d 1146	22
1983	Horvitz v. State	433 So. 2d 545	21
1983	Overfelt v. State	434 So. 2d 945	20
1981	United States Fidelity & Guaranty v. Graham	404 So. 2d 863	20

Showing the 15 most-cited of 390 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 R. Beranek on?: John R. Beranek 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).