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 2015 / Served to 2020

John Leonard Badalamenti

Judge, Florida District Courts of Appeal

John Leonard Badalamenti was a Judge of the Florida District Courts of Appeal, who joined the court in 2015. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1973 · age 53
Tenure: 2015–2020 · 5 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2015	Florida District Courts of Appeal	–	–

Education

University of Florida	Criminology and Law, highest honors	1995
University of Florida		1999
University of Florida	Sociology	1999

Judicial Record

In our data, Badalamenti authored 49 published opinions for the court (2015–2019), plus 2 concurrences. Most cited: Bioscience West, Inc. v. Gulfstream Property & Casualty Insurance Co. (26 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. 51 of these were attributed to Badalamenti 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
2016	Bioscience West, Inc. v. Gulfstream Property & Casualty Insurance Co.†	185 So. 3d 638	26
2016	Reed v. State†	192 So. 3d 641	13
2016	Nelson v. Nelson†	206 So. 3d 818	12
2017	McCullough v. State†	230 So. 3d 586	11
2017	Boatright v. Philip Morris USA, Inc.†	218 So. 3d 962	11
2015	The Retreat at Port of the Islands, LLC v. Port of the Islands Resort Hotel Condominium Association, LLC†	181 So. 3d 531	11
2019	J.A.D. v. K.M.A.†	264 So. 3d 1080	7
2018	M.M. v. J.H.†	251 So. 3d 970	7
2017	Christina M. Paylan, M.D. v. Timothy J. Fitzgerald, Esq.†	223 So. 3d 431	7
2017	Dickie v. State†	216 So. 3d 35	7
2017	B.M. v. State†	212 So. 3d 526	6
2017	Diecidue v. Lewis†	223 So. 3d 1015	6
2016	Powers v. Powers†	193 So. 3d 1047	6
2018	Baden v. Baden†	260 So. 3d 1108	5
2018	Ferris v. Winn†	242 So. 3d 509	5

Showing the 15 most-cited of 51 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 Leonard Badalamenti on?: John Leonard Badalamenti 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).