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 1977 / Served to 1981

John H. Moore II

Judge, Florida District Courts of Appeal

John H. Moore II was a Judge of the Florida District Courts of Appeal, who joined the court in 1977. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1927–2013
Tenure: 1977–1981 · 4 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1977	Florida District Courts of Appeal	–	–

Education

Syracuse University
University of Florida

Judicial Record

In our data, Moore authored 187 published opinions for the court (1977–1981), plus 9 dissents and 7 concurrences. Most cited: Relyea v. State (69 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. 93 of these were attributed to Moore 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
1980	Relyea v. State	385 So. 2d 1378	69
1981	Wale v. State	397 So. 2d 738	65
1981	Crislip v. Holland	401 So. 2d 1115	64
1981	Hidden Harbour Estates, Inc. v. Basso	393 So. 2d 637	63
1981	Orlovsky v. Solid Surf, Inc.	405 So. 2d 1363	51
1980	John Crescent, Inc. v. Schwartz	382 So. 2d 383	49
1980	L. Luria & Son v. Alarmtec Intern.	384 So. 2d 947	26
1980	Fee, Parker & Lloyd, PA v. Sullivan	379 So. 2d 412	26
1980	Kennedy v. State	385 So. 2d 1020	25
1980	State v. Schultz	388 So. 2d 1326	24
1980	Jones v. State	385 So. 2d 132	24
1981	Arbogast v. Bryan	393 So. 2d 606	23
1978	Currens v. State	363 So. 2d 1116	23
1980	City of Winter Park v. Jones	392 So. 2d 568	22
1981	Miles v. Katz	405 So. 2d 750	21

Showing the 15 most-cited of 203 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 H. Moore II on?: John H. Moore II was a Judge of the Florida District Courts of Appeal.

Sources

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4 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).