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 2005 / Active

Leslie B. Rothenberg

Judge, Florida District Courts of Appeal

Leslie B. Rothenberg is a Judge of the Florida District Courts of Appeal, serving since 2005. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2005 · 21 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2005	Florida District Courts of Appeal	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Rothenberg authored 623 published opinions for the court (2005–2018), plus 29 dissents and 13 concurrences. Most cited: Delgado v. Laundromax, Inc. (78 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. 669 of these were attributed to Rothenberg 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
2011	Delgado v. Laundromax, Inc.†	65 So. 3d 1087	78
2009	Extraordinary Title Services, LLC v. Florida Power & Light Co.†	1 So. 3d 400	39
2009	United Automobile Insurance Co. v. Santa Fe Medical Center†	21 So. 3d 60	33
2014	Dinuro Investments, LLC v. Camacho†	141 So. 3d 731	29
2012	Real Estate Value Co. v. Carnival Corp.†	92 So. 3d 255	28
2012	Indymac Federal Bank FSB v. Hagan†	104 So. 3d 1232	27
2012	Miami-Dade County v. Asad†	78 So. 3d 660	27
2016	Effs v. Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, Inc.†	197 So. 3d 1243	26
2013	Wade v. Wade†	124 So. 3d 369	24
2012	Vorbeck v. Betancourt†	107 So. 3d 1142	24
2010	Cubelo v. State†	41 So. 3d 263	24
2015	Connolly, Jr. v. State†	172 So. 3d 893	23
2014	Rousso v. Hannon†	146 So. 3d 66	23
2015	Bank of New York Mellon v. Nunez and Valdes†	180 So. 3d 160	22
2012	Empire World Towers, LLC v. CDR Créances, S.A.S.†	89 So. 3d 1034	22

Showing the 15 most-cited of 669 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 Leslie B. Rothenberg on?: Leslie B. Rothenberg is a Judge of the Florida District Courts of Appeal.

Sources

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21 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).