How do judges of the Supreme Court of Florida reach the bench?

The court's current selection method is merit selection with retention.

Supreme Court of Florida / Joined 1969 / Served to 1987

Joseph A. Boyd Jr.

Justice, Supreme Court of Florida

Joseph A. Boyd Jr. was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Florida, who joined the court in 1969. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1916–2007
Tenure: 1969–1987 · 18 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1969	Supreme Court of Florida	–	–

Education

University of Miami

Judicial Record

In our data, Boyd authored 518 published opinions for the court (1969–1987), plus 59 dissents and 50 concurrences. Most cited: Thayer v. State (425 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. 258 of these were attributed to Boyd 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
1976	Thayer v. State	335 So. 2d 815	425
1983	Combs v. State	436 So. 2d 93	350
1985	Tillman v. State	471 So. 2d 32	309
1986	Maxwell v. Wainwright	490 So. 2d 927	248
1980	Gibson v. Avis Rent-A-Car System, Inc.	386 So. 2d 520	152
1984	State v. Overfelt	457 So. 2d 1385	145
1973	State v. Egan	287 So. 2d 1	140
1975	Spinkellink v. State	313 So. 2d 666	130
1984	Nodar v. Galbreath	462 So. 2d 803	116
1982	Borges v. State	415 So. 2d 1265	116
1984	Bundy v. State	455 So. 2d 330	113
1969	Griffis v. Hill	230 So. 2d 143	112
1984	GOV. EMPLOYEES INS. CO. v. Novak	453 So. 2d 1116	110
1983	State v. Waters	436 So. 2d 66	105
1983	State v. Gray	435 So. 2d 816	105

Showing the 15 most-cited of 629 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 Supreme Court of Florida reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is merit selection with retention.
Which court was Joseph A. Boyd Jr. on?: Joseph A. Boyd Jr. was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Florida.

Sources

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18 years on the Supreme Court of Florida. Data as of 2026-03-31. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).