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 1990 / Served to 2005

Mario P. Goderich

Judge, Florida District Courts of Appeal

Mario P. Goderich was a Judge of the Florida District Courts of Appeal, who joined the court in 1990. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1990–2005 · 15 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1990	Florida District Courts of Appeal	–	–

Education

University of Miami

Judicial Record

In our data, Goderich authored 89 published opinions for the court (1990–2004), plus 2 dissents and 3 concurrences. Most cited: Pallas v. State (53 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. 54 of these were attributed to Goderich 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
1994	Pallas v. State	636 So. 2d 1358	53
1995	State Farm Fire & Cas. Co. v. Middleton	648 So. 2d 1200	44
1998	Midtown Realty, Inc. v. Hussain	712 So. 2d 1249	19
2002	H.A.P. v. State†	834 So. 2d 237	16
1998	American Reliance Ins. Co. v. PEREZ EX REL. PEREZ	712 So. 2d 1211	16
1999	Valdes v. State	728 So. 2d 1225	15
1991	Henry v. State	581 So. 2d 928	15
2002	Sibley v. Sibley	833 So. 2d 847	14
1999	McGoey v. State	736 So. 2d 31	14
1998	Elliard v. State	714 So. 2d 1218	14
1998	English v. State	721 So. 2d 1250	13
2002	Alexander v. Suncoast Builders, Inc.	837 So. 2d 1056	11
2000	Duncan Auto Realty, Ltd. v. Allstate Ins. Co.	754 So. 2d 863	11
1996	Sethscot Collection, Inc. v. Drbul	669 So. 2d 1076	11
1992	E.A. v. State†	599 So. 2d 251	11

Showing the 15 most-cited of 94 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 Mario P. Goderich on?: Mario P. Goderich was a Judge of the Florida District Courts of Appeal.

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15 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).