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 1989 / Active

Martha Warner

Judge, Florida District Courts of Appeal

Martha Warner is a Judge of the Florida District Courts of Appeal, serving since 1989. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 1989 · 37 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1989	Florida District Courts of Appeal	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Warner authored 1,623 published opinions for the court (1986–2019), plus 91 dissents and 87 concurrences. Most cited: Gentile v. Gentile (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. 862 of these were attributed to Warner 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
1990	Gentile v. Gentile	565 So. 2d 820	54
1999	Adams v. State	750 So. 2d 659	50
2003	Romano Ex Rel. Romano v. Manor Care, Inc.	861 So. 2d 59	48
1997	Ciba-Geigy Ltd. v. Fish Peddler, Inc.	691 So. 2d 1111	44
1998	Young v. State	719 So. 2d 1010	43
2001	Miller v. Kase	789 So. 2d 1095	42
1997	Goutis v. Express Transport, Inc.	699 So. 2d 757	41
2008	City of Hollywood v. Hogan	986 So. 2d 634	40
2001	Haiman v. Federal Ins. Co.	798 So. 2d 811	40
1998	Harriel v. State	710 So. 2d 102	40
1997	American Tobacco Co. v. State	697 So. 2d 1249	40
2007	BDO Seidman, LLP v. Bee	970 So. 2d 869	39
1999	Shrove v. Shrove	724 So. 2d 679	39
1998	State v. American Tobacco Co.	707 So. 2d 851	38
2003	Hernandez-Molina v. State	860 So. 2d 483	37

Showing the 15 most-cited of 1,805 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 Martha Warner on?: Martha Warner is a Judge of the Florida District Courts of Appeal.

Sources

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37 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).