How do judges of the Supreme Court of Florida reach the bench?

The court's current selection method is merit selection with retention.

Supreme Court of Florida / Joined 1991 / Served to 2002

Major B. Harding

Justice, Supreme Court of Florida

Major B. Harding was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Florida, who joined the court in 1991. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1935 · age 91
Tenure: 1991–2002 · 11 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1991	Supreme Court of Florida	–	–

Education

Wake Forest University

Judicial Record

In our data, Harding authored 219 published opinions for the court (1975–2002), plus 21 dissents and 26 concurrences. Most cited: Dade Cty. Sch. Bd. v. Radio Station WQBA (471 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. 84 of these were attributed to Harding 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
1999	Dade Cty. Sch. Bd. v. Radio Station WQBA	731 So. 2d 638	471
1995	Allstate Ins. Co. v. Langston	655 So. 2d 91	258
1995	State v. Gray	654 So. 2d 552	232
2002	Westerheide v. State	831 So. 2d 93	152
1993	State Farm Fire & Cas. Co. v. Palma	629 So. 2d 830	152
1992	Godwin v. State	593 So. 2d 211	141
1992	Pimm v. Pimm	601 So. 2d 534	121
2001	Blumberg v. USAA Cas. Ins. Co.	790 So. 2d 1061	102
1994	Hopkins v. State	632 So. 2d 1372	102
1995	In Re Adoption of Baby EAW	658 So. 2d 961	99
1998	Silvestrone v. Edell	721 So. 2d 1173	98
1996	King v. State	681 So. 2d 1136	94
1997	Holland v. State	696 So. 2d 757	93
1993	State v. Johans	613 So. 2d 1319	81
1992	Londono v. Turkey Creek, Inc.	609 So. 2d 14	80

Showing the 15 most-cited of 266 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 Supreme Court of Florida reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is merit selection with retention.
Which court was Major B. Harding on?: Major B. Harding was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Florida.

Sources

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11 years on the Supreme Court of Florida. Data as of 2026-03-31. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).