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 1991 / Served to 2015

Lucy C. Brown

Judge, Florida District Courts of Appeal

Lucy C. Brown was a Judge of the Florida District Courts of Appeal, who joined the court in 1991. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1991–2015 · 24 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1991	Florida District Courts of Appeal	–	–

Education

University of Rochester
Villanova University

Judicial Record

In our data, Brown authored 16 published opinions for the court (1974–2009). Most cited: Pierce v. State (26 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. 1 of these was attributed to Brown 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
1997	Pierce v. State	718 So. 2d 806	26
1999	World Class Yachts, Inc. v. Murphy	731 So. 2d 798	21
1995	Pascale v. Federal Exp. Corp.	656 So. 2d 1351	19
1975	Blackburn v. State	314 So. 2d 634	15
1994	Anderson v. State	632 So. 2d 132	10
1997	Dilallo v. Riding Safely, Inc.	687 So. 2d 353	8
1996	Pierce v. State	671 So. 2d 186	8
1995	Snedaker v. Snedaker	660 So. 2d 1070	8
1999	In Re Estate of Wiggins	729 So. 2d 523	7
1974	Dalton v. Dalton	304 So. 2d 511	7
2009	Dunlap v. State	21 So. 3d 873	4
1999	City of Pembroke Pines v. McConaghey	728 So. 2d 347	4
1997	Bottalico v. Antonelli	695 So. 2d 363	4
2005	Woods v. State	905 So. 2d 246	1
2005	Louie's Oyster v. Villaggio Di Las Olas	902 So. 2d 901	1

Showing the 15 most-cited of 16 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 Lucy C. Brown on?: Lucy C. Brown was a Judge of the Florida District Courts of Appeal.

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24 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).