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 2009 / Active

Jonathan D. Gerber

Judge, Florida District Courts of Appeal

Jonathan D. Gerber is a Judge of the Florida District Courts of Appeal, serving since 2009. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2009 · 17 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2009	Florida District Courts of Appeal	–	–

Education

Princeton University
University of Florida

Judicial Record

In our data, Gerber authored 301 published opinions for the court (2005–2019), plus 8 dissents and 10 concurrences. Most cited: Vantavia B. Jackson-Johnson v. State of Florida (53 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. 232 of these were attributed to Gerber 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	Vantavia B. Jackson-Johnson v. State of Florida†	188 So. 3d 133	53
2009	Bueno v. Workman	20 So. 3d 993	43
2009	Frost v. Regions Bank	15 So. 3d 905	35
2011	Land & Sea Petroleum, Inc. v. Business Specialists, Inc.†	53 So. 3d 348	27
2012	Kramer v. State Farm Florida Insurance Co.†	95 So. 3d 303	25
2012	Soronson v. State Farm Florida Insurance Co.†	96 So. 3d 949	24
2013	Williams v. State†	125 So. 3d 879	23
2016	Bolous v. U.S. Bank National Ass'n†	210 So. 3d 691	22
2011	Ferere v. Shure	65 So. 3d 1141	19
2010	Kiss v. State· Concurrence†	42 So. 3d 810	19
2016	Arnone v. State†	204 So. 3d 556	18
2016	Williams v. State†	202 So. 3d 917	15
2015	Allied Professionals Insurance Co. v. Fitzpatrick†	169 So. 3d 138	15
2017	A.L.Y. v. State†	212 So. 3d 399	14
2014	Joseph Cammarata and Judy Cammarata v. State Farm Florida Insurance Company· Concurrence†	152 So. 3d 606	14

Showing the 15 most-cited of 319 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 is Jonathan D. Gerber on?: Jonathan D. Gerber is a Judge of the Florida District Courts of Appeal.

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17 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).