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 1996 / Served to 2007

John G. Fletcher

Judge, Florida District Courts of Appeal

John G. Fletcher was a Judge of the Florida District Courts of Appeal, who joined the court in 1996. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1937–2010
Tenure: 1996–2007 · 11 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1996	Florida District Courts of Appeal	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Fletcher authored 231 published opinions for the court (1996–2007), plus 1 dissent and 4 concurrences. Most cited: Millennium Communications & Fulfillment, Inc. v. Office of Atty. Gen. (81 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. 163 of these were attributed to Fletcher 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	Millennium Communications & Fulfillment, Inc. v. Office of Atty. Gen.	761 So. 2d 1256	81
2000	Latman v. Costa Cruise Lines, NV	758 So. 2d 699	62
1997	Bradley v. Health Coalition, Inc.	687 So. 2d 329	30
1999	Johnson v. Johnson	725 So. 2d 1209	24
1998	Hanono v. Murphy	723 So. 2d 892	23
1997	Martinez v. State	692 So. 2d 199	23
2000	Perez v. Perez	767 So. 2d 513	17
1998	State v. Clark	721 So. 2d 1202	15
1997	State v. J.L.†	689 So. 2d 1116	14
2000	Edwards v. Najjar	748 So. 2d 1101	13
1998	Waxoyl Ag v. Taylor, Brion, Buker	711 So. 2d 1251	13
2004	Sta-Rite Industries, Inc. v. Levey	909 So. 2d 901	12
2001	Allstate Ins. Co. v. Martinez	790 So. 2d 1151	12
2000	US SEC. Ins. Co. v. Cahuasqui	760 So. 2d 1101	12
2000	Schneer v. Allstate Indem. Co.	767 So. 2d 485	11

Showing the 15 most-cited of 236 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 G. Fletcher on?: John G. Fletcher 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).