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 2000 / Served to 2008

Juan Ramirez

Judge, Florida District Courts of Appeal

Juan Ramirez was a Judge of the Florida District Courts of Appeal, who joined the court in 2000. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 2000–2008 · 8 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2000	Florida District Courts of Appeal	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Ramirez authored 151 published opinions for the court (1994–2011), plus 21 dissents and 5 concurrences. Most cited: Keaton v. Keaton (24 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. 143 of these were attributed to Ramirez 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
1994	Keaton v. Keaton	634 So. 2d 798	24
1996	HOLLYWOOD LAKES CIVIC ASS'N v. Hollywood	676 So. 2d 500	23
2002	Rodriguez v. State	826 So. 2d 464	17
2002	State v. Steadman	827 So. 2d 1022	17
1994	N. Am. Van Lines v. FERGUSON TRANSP.	639 So. 2d 32	16
2005	Valdes-Fauli v. Valdes-Fauli†	903 So. 2d 214	15
1997	Southeast and Associates, Inc. v. Fox Run Homeowners Ass'n, Inc.	704 So. 2d 694	15
2001	Sardinas v. Lagares· Dissent†	805 So. 2d 1024	14
1998	Mancher v. Seminole Tribe of Florida	708 So. 2d 327	14
2005	Bertrand v. Belhomme†	892 So. 2d 1150	11
2004	Lopes v. Allstate Indemnity Co.†	873 So. 2d 344	10
2002	A.N.H. v. State†	832 So. 2d 170	10
2008	J.R.P. v. State†	979 So. 2d 1178	9
2002	Wallace v. State	833 So. 2d 796	9
1998	Kartzmark v. Kartzmark	709 So. 2d 583	9

Showing the 15 most-cited of 179 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 Juan Ramirez on?: Juan Ramirez was a Judge of the Florida District Courts of Appeal.

Sources

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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).