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 1992 / Served to 2003

John R. Blue

Judge, Florida District Courts of Appeal

John R. Blue was a Judge of the Florida District Courts of Appeal, who joined the court in 1992. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1992–2003 · 11 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1992	Florida District Courts of Appeal	–	–

Education

Florida State University
Stetson University

Judicial Record

In our data, Blue authored 577 published opinions for the court (1992–2003), plus 5 dissents and 15 concurrences. Most cited: Murphy v. State (103 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. 361 of these were attributed to Blue 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
2000	Murphy v. State	773 So. 2d 1174	103
1997	PURRELL v. State Farm Fire and Cas. Co.	698 So. 2d 618	64
1998	State v. Cotton	728 So. 2d 251	57
2001	Lisanti v. City of Port Richey	787 So. 2d 36	45
2002	Durkin v. Davis	814 So. 2d 1246	32
1995	Hart v. State	651 So. 2d 112	27
2001	Bryant v. State	787 So. 2d 68	26
1995	Gnann v. State	662 So. 2d 406	25
2002	Blake v. State	807 So. 2d 772	23
1996	KCIN, INC. v. Canpro Investments, Ltd.	675 So. 2d 222	23
2000	Cabrera v. State	766 So. 2d 1131	19
2000	Butler v. State	775 So. 2d 320	19
1997	Baldwin v. State	700 So. 2d 95	19
1995	Lawson v. State	651 So. 2d 713	19
1999	State v. White	736 So. 2d 1231	18

Showing the 15 most-cited of 597 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. Blue on?: John R. Blue was a Judge of the Florida District Courts of Appeal.

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11 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).