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 2006 / Active

Kerry I. Evander

Judge, Florida District Courts of Appeal

Kerry I. Evander is a Judge of the Florida District Courts of Appeal, serving since 2006. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2006 · 20 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2006	Florida District Courts of Appeal	–	–

Education

University of Florida
University of Florida

Judicial Record

In our data, Evander authored 359 published opinions for the court (1995–2019), plus 6 dissents and 12 concurrences. Most cited: Ortiz v. State (25 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. 225 of these were attributed to Evander 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
2009	Ortiz v. State· Dissent†	24 So. 3d 596	25
2008	State v. Knox	990 So. 2d 665	24
2006	SA-PG-OCALA, LLC v. Stokes	935 So. 2d 1242	20
2013	Pinder v. State†	128 So. 3d 141	17
2007	Allan and Conrad v. University of Cent. Fl.	961 So. 2d 1083	17
2007	Harris v. State	954 So. 2d 1260	17
2010	Poole v. City of Port Orange	33 So. 3d 739	16
2012	LOUZON v. State	78 So. 3d 678	14
2010	Wooden v. State	42 So. 3d 837	14
2007	Cruz v. State	971 So. 2d 178	14
2017	Klebanoff v. Bank of New York Mellon†	228 So. 3d 167	13
2011	Winter Park Imports, Inc. v. JM Family Enterprises, Inc.†	77 So. 3d 227	12
2011	Winter Park Imports, Inc. v. JM Family Enterprises	66 So. 3d 336	12
2010	Sea World of Florida, Inc. v. Ace American Insurance Companies	28 So. 3d 158	12
2006	Shepard v. State	940 So. 2d 545	12

Showing the 15 most-cited of 377 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 Kerry I. Evander on?: Kerry I. Evander is a Judge of the Florida District Courts of Appeal.

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20 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).