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 1993 / Served to 2001

L Arthur Lawrence

Judge, Florida District Courts of Appeal

L Arthur Lawrence was a Judge of the Florida District Courts of Appeal, who joined the court in 1993. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1939 · age 87
Tenure: 1993–2001 · 8 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1993	Florida District Courts of Appeal	–	–

Education

Emory University
University of Florida

Judicial Record

In our data, Lawrence authored 123 published opinions for the court (1993–2000), plus 12 dissents and 10 concurrences. Most cited: Asian Imports, Inc. v. Pepe (27 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. 84 of these were attributed to Lawrence 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	Asian Imports, Inc. v. Pepe	633 So. 2d 551	27
1998	Butler v. State	706 So. 2d 100	26
1998	Wagner v. State	707 So. 2d 827	25
1995	Nelson v. Nelson	651 So. 2d 1252	22
1998	Bardin v. State, Dept. of Revenue	720 So. 2d 609	21
1995	Hooters of America v. CAROLINA WINGS	655 So. 2d 1231	21
1995	Zarco Supply Co. v. Bonnell	658 So. 2d 151	19
1999	Johnson v. Johnson	726 So. 2d 393	17
2000	Warren Ex Rel. Brassell v. K Mart Corp.	765 So. 2d 235	15
1997	Richardson v. State	698 So. 2d 551	14
1996	Stevenson v. State	667 So. 2d 410	14
1994	Rhea v. School Bd. of Alachua County	636 So. 2d 1383	14
2000	Nims v. Harrison	768 So. 2d 1198	13
2000	Ard v. Ard	765 So. 2d 106	12
2000	Foresta v. State	751 So. 2d 738	11

Showing the 15 most-cited of 145 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 L Arthur Lawrence on?: L Arthur Lawrence 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).