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 1975 / Served to 1998

John M. Scheb

Judge, Florida District Courts of Appeal

John M. Scheb was a Judge of the Florida District Courts of Appeal, who joined the court in 1975. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1926–2010
Tenure: 1975–1998 · 23 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1975	Florida District Courts of Appeal	–	–

Education

Florida Southern College
University of Florida

Judicial Record

In our data, Scheb authored 905 published opinions for the court (1975–2006), plus 1 dissent and 5 concurrences. Most cited: Counts v. State (96 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. 374 of these were attributed to Scheb 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
1979	Counts v. State	376 So. 2d 59	96
1979	Snyder v. Cheezem Development Corp.	373 So. 2d 719	80
1976	Lake Parker Mall, Inc. v. Carson	327 So. 2d 121	58
1976	Huckelbury v. State	337 So. 2d 400	57
1977	Clooney v. Geeting	352 So. 2d 1216	55
1984	In Re Guardianship of Barry	445 So. 2d 365	46
1989	State v. Simons	549 So. 2d 785	43
1984	Hudson v. Prudential Property & Cas. Ins. Co.	450 So. 2d 565	43
1976	Watts v. State	328 So. 2d 223	42
1984	Addison v. State	452 So. 2d 955	41
1975	Taco Bell of California v. Zappone	324 So. 2d 121	41
1982	Chapman v. Pinellas County	423 So. 2d 578	40
1985	Booker v. State	482 So. 2d 414	39
1981	Johnson v. Johnson	395 So. 2d 640	39
1978	Peter Marich & Associates, Inc. v. Powell	365 So. 2d 754	38

Showing the 15 most-cited of 911 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 M. Scheb on?: John M. Scheb was a Judge of the Florida District Courts of Appeal.

Sources

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23 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).