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 2009

Larry Klein

Judge, Florida District Courts of Appeal

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

Tenure: 1993–2009 · 16 yrs

Judicial service

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

Judicial Record

In our data, Klein authored 1,044 published opinions for the court (1993–2009), plus 13 dissents and 14 concurrences. Most cited: Chapman v. Chapman (57 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. 463 of these were attributed to Klein 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
2004	Chapman v. Chapman	866 So. 2d 118	57
1999	Totta v. State	740 So. 2d 57	41
2001	Peterson v. State	775 So. 2d 376	40
2005	Holmes v. Bridgestone/Firestone, Inc.	891 So. 2d 1188	38
1997	Brancaccio v. State	698 So. 2d 597	31
1998	Plain v. State	720 So. 2d 585	30
2007	State v. Buttolph	969 So. 2d 1209	29
1995	Jackson v. Navarro	665 So. 2d 340	28
1995	Shelton v. State	654 So. 2d 1295	26
1995	State v. Morris	662 So. 2d 378	24
1998	State v. Warner	721 So. 2d 767	23
2005	State v. Laveroni	910 So. 2d 333	22
2001	BDO Seidman v. British Car Auctions, Inc.	802 So. 2d 366	22
1998	Thomas v. State	711 So. 2d 96	22
1997	Lassiter Const. v. American States Ins.	699 So. 2d 768	22

Showing the 15 most-cited of 1,071 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 Larry Klein on?: Larry Klein was a Judge of the Florida District Courts of Appeal.

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16 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).