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 1969 / Served to 1977

Joseph P. McNulty

Judge, Florida District Courts of Appeal

Joseph P. McNulty was a Judge of the Florida District Courts of Appeal, who joined the court in 1969. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1969–1977 · 8 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1969	Florida District Courts of Appeal	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, McNulty authored 311 published opinions for the court (1965–1991), plus 18 dissents and 8 concurrences. Most cited: Steinhauser v. State (61 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. 151 of these were attributed to McNulty 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
1969	Steinhauser v. State	228 So. 2d 446	61
1975	Lee v. Lee	309 So. 2d 26	54
1972	Pope v. State	268 So. 2d 173	53
1970	Glaab v. Caudill	236 So. 2d 180	53
1975	Leatherby Insurance Company v. Willoughby	315 So. 2d 553	49
1969	City of Tampa v. Davis	226 So. 2d 450	46
1969	Godbee v. State	224 So. 2d 441	46
1975	Darden v. State	306 So. 2d 581	45
1969	State v. Gillespie	227 So. 2d 550	45
1971	Emery v. International Glass & Mfg., Inc.	249 So. 2d 496	41
1970	James A. Knowles, Inc. v. Imperial Lumber Company	238 So. 2d 487	40
1976	Bennett v. Warden	333 So. 2d 97	38
1974	Speller v. State	305 So. 2d 231	36
1973	Mertz v. Mertz	287 So. 2d 691	36
1976	Lutgert v. Lutgert	338 So. 2d 1111	35

Showing the 15 most-cited of 338 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 Joseph P. McNulty on?: Joseph P. McNulty was a Judge of the Florida District Courts of Appeal.

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8 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).