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 2009 / Active

Lori S. Rowe

Judge, Florida District Courts of Appeal

Lori S. Rowe is a Judge of the Florida District Courts of Appeal (102 judges, selected by merit selection with retention), serving since 2009. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1970 · age 56
Tenure: Since 2009 · 17 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2009	Florida District Courts of Appeal	–	–

Education

Vanderbilt University
Florida State University

Judicial Record

In our data, Rowe authored 62 published opinions for the court (2009–2018), plus 9 dissents and 8 concurrences. Most cited: Gonzalez v. State (44 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. 68 of these were attributed to Rowe 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
2012	Gonzalez v. State†	101 So. 3d 886	44
2017	State of Florida v. Brian Mitchell Lee†	223 So. 3d 342	25
2011	Galligar v. Galligar†	77 So. 3d 808	15
2013	Ramsey v. Home Depot U.S.A., Inc.†	124 So. 3d 415	14
2012	Smith v. State†	93 So. 3d 371	13
2015	Apthorp v. Detzner†	162 So. 3d 236	11
2011	Strickland v. Timco Aviation Services, Inc.†	66 So. 3d 1002	11
2015	Shawn Ahearn, on behalf of himself and all etc. v. Mayo Clinic, a Florida Corporation Mayo etc.· Concurrence†	180 So. 3d 165	10
2014	Edwards v. State†	139 So. 3d 981	10
2010	Echeverria v. State	33 So. 3d 802	10
2015	Borden Dairy Co. of Alabama v. Kuhajda†	171 So. 3d 242	9
2012	Anderson v. State· Concurrence†	93 So. 3d 1201	8
2017	Rick Scott, in his official capacity etc. v. Gail Francati†	214 So. 3d 742	7
2016	Joanne McCall, Senator Geraldine etc. v. Rick Scott, Governor of Florida, etc.†	199 So. 3d 359	7
2015	Christopher Parker-Cyrus v. Justice Administrative Commission†	160 So. 3d 926	7

Showing the 15 most-cited of 79 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 Lori S. Rowe on?: Lori S. Rowe is a Judge of the Florida District Courts of Appeal.

Sources

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17 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).