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 1957 / Served to 1993

John T. Wigginton

Judge, Florida District Courts of Appeal

John T. Wigginton was a Judge of the Florida District Courts of Appeal, who joined the court in 1957. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1957–1993 · 36 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1957	Florida District Courts of Appeal	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Wigginton authored 658 published opinions for the court (1957–1974), plus 31 dissents and 22 concurrences. Most cited: Frank v. State (141 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. 398 of these were attributed to Wigginton 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
1967	Frank v. State	199 So. 2d 117	141
1973	Baxter v. Royal Indemnity Company	285 So. 2d 652	92
1961	Schatz v. 7-Eleven, Inc.	128 So. 2d 901	79
1960	Pope v. Pinkerton-Hays Lumber Co.	120 So. 2d 227	65
1963	Savage v. State	156 So. 2d 566	59
1958	Budgen v. Brady	103 So. 2d 672	53
1960	Bloomfield v. Mayo	119 So. 2d 417	51
1957	Boucher v. Pure Oil Company	101 So. 2d 408	51
1971	McPhee v. State	254 So. 2d 406	49
1971	Greenhut Construction Co. v. Henry A. Knott, Inc.	247 So. 2d 517	47
1959	Buck v. McLean	115 So. 2d 764	47
1963	Winn-Dixie Stores, Inc. v. Fellows	153 So. 2d 45	46
1958	Pullman Company v. Fleishel	101 So. 2d 188	46
1961	MA Kite Company v. AC Samford, Inc.	130 So. 2d 99	44
1958	Sedell v. Sedell	100 So. 2d 639	44

Showing the 15 most-cited of 711 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 T. Wigginton on?: John T. Wigginton was a Judge of the Florida District Courts of Appeal.

Sources

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36 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).