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 1981 / Served to 2001

John W. Dell

Judge, Florida District Courts of Appeal

John W. Dell was a Judge of the Florida District Courts of Appeal, who joined the court in 1981. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1981–2001 · 20 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1981	Florida District Courts of Appeal	–	–

Education

Loras College
University of Notre Dame

Judicial Record

In our data, Dell authored 536 published opinions for the court (1981–2003), plus 9 dissents and 9 concurrences. Most cited: Slomowitz v. Walker (105 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. 249 of these were attributed to Dell 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
1983	Slomowitz v. Walker	429 So. 2d 797	105
1983	Pledger v. Burnup & Sims, Inc.	432 So. 2d 1323	38
1982	Cummings v. State	412 So. 2d 436	37
1998	Keitel v. Keitel	716 So. 2d 842	32
1987	Hardie v. State	513 So. 2d 791	29
2002	Altieri v. State	835 So. 2d 1181	28
1983	Reeser v. Boats Unlimited, Inc.	432 So. 2d 1346	27
1983	Brown v. Gardens by the Sea South Condominium Ass'n· Concurrence†	424 So. 2d 181	26
1982	Asmer v. State	416 So. 2d 485	25
1987	Hartford Accident & Indemnity Co. v. U.S.C.P. Co.†	515 So. 2d 998	24
1986	Shook v. Allstate Ins. Co.	498 So. 2d 498	24
1984	Harden v. State	453 So. 2d 550	24
1986	Hannah v. State	480 So. 2d 718	22
1984	Pysz v. Henry's Drug Store	457 So. 2d 561	22
1984	In the Interest of AR	460 So. 2d 1024	21

Showing the 15 most-cited of 554 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 W. Dell on?: John W. Dell was a Judge of the Florida District Courts of Appeal.

Sources

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20 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).