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 2003 / Served to 2008

Kenneth B. Bell

Justice, Supreme Court of Florida

Kenneth B. Bell was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Florida, who joined the court in 2003. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1956 · age 70
Tenure: 2003–2008 · 5 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2003	Supreme Court of Florida	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Bell authored 32 published opinions for the court (2003–2008), plus 4 dissents and 5 concurrences. Most cited: Pizzo v. State (112 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. 12 of these were attributed to Bell 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
2006	Pizzo v. State	945 So. 2d 1203	112
2003	Bautista v. State	863 So. 2d 1180	104
2003	D'ANGELO v. Fitzmaurice	863 So. 2d 311	98
2005	Wade v. Hirschman	903 So. 2d 928	94
2004	State v. Burris	875 So. 2d 408	94
2004	Travelers Indem. Co. v. PCR INC.	889 So. 2d 779	89
2003	BellSouth Telecommunications, Inc. v. Meeks	863 So. 2d 287	87
2003	Miami-Dade County v. Omnipoint Holdings, Inc.	863 So. 2d 195	82
2006	Sanders v. State	944 So. 2d 203	77
2006	Koile v. State· Concurrence†	934 So. 2d 1226	63
2007	Brown v. State	959 So. 2d 218	55
2006	V.K.E. v. State· Dissent†	934 So. 2d 1276	55
2005	Milks v. State	894 So. 2d 924	46
2008	Khianthalat v. State	974 So. 2d 359	45
2006	Velez v. MIAMI-DADE COUNTY POLICE DEPT.	934 So. 2d 1162	45

Showing the 15 most-cited of 41 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 Kenneth B. Bell on?: Kenneth B. Bell was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Florida.

Sources

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5 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).