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 2003 / Active

Linda Ann Wells

Judge, Florida District Courts of Appeal

Linda Ann Wells is a Judge of the Florida District Courts of Appeal (102 judges, selected by merit selection with retention), serving since 2003. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2003 · 23 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2003	Florida District Courts of Appeal	–	–

Education

University of Florida
Florida State University

Judicial Record

In our data, Wells authored 393 published opinions for the court (2003–2017), plus 12 dissents and 16 concurrences. Most cited: Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas, Etc. v. Beauvais (54 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. 413 of these were attributed to Wells 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
2016	Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas, Etc. v. Beauvais†	188 So. 3d 938	54
2011	Citizens Property Insurance Corp. v. Mango Hill Condominium Ass'n 12†	54 So. 3d 578	31
2004	Bambu v. EI Dupont De Nemours & Co., Inc.	881 So. 2d 565	29
2013	Bank of New York Mellon v. Reyes†	126 So. 3d 304	21
2008	State v. Jardines†	9 So. 3d 1	21
2014	Mobley v. State†	132 So. 3d 1160	19
2014	Ledo v. Seavie Resources, LLC†	149 So. 3d 707	18
2009	Trumbull Insurance Co. v. Wolentarski†	2 So. 3d 1050	17
2014	Celebrity Cruises, Inc. v. Fernandes†	149 So. 3d 744	15
2011	Reid v. Estate of Sonder· Concurrence†	63 So. 3d 7	15
2010	State v. Yaqubie†	51 So. 3d 474	14
2009	Chiropractic v. United Automobile Insurance Co.†	21 So. 3d 858	14
2009	Ubilla v. State†	8 So. 3d 1200	14
2014	Ross Dress for Less Virginia, Inc. v. Castro†	134 So. 3d 511	13
2010	Ramcharitar v. Derosins†	35 So. 3d 94	13

Showing the 15 most-cited of 422 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 Linda Ann Wells on?: Linda Ann Wells is a Judge of the Florida District Courts of Appeal.

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23 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).