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

Marva Crenshaw

Judge, Florida District Courts of Appeal

Marva Crenshaw is a Judge of the Florida District Courts of Appeal, serving since 2009. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2009 · 17 yrs

Judicial service

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

Education

University of Florida

Judicial Record

In our data, Crenshaw authored 178 published opinions for the court (2009–2018), plus 3 dissents and 1 concurrence. Most cited: Murley v. Wiedamann (25 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. 131 of these were attributed to Crenshaw 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
2009	Murley v. Wiedamann	25 So. 3d 27	25
2012	USAA Casualty Insurance Co. v. Prime Care Chiropractic Centers, P.A.†	93 So. 3d 345	15
2010	MacArty v. MacArty	29 So. 3d 434	15
2016	Holland v. State†	185 So. 3d 636	14
2011	Citizens Property Insurance Co. v. Admiralty House, Inc.	66 So. 3d 342	14
2010	Holden v. Bober	39 So. 3d 396	14
2015	Boyette v. BAC Home Loans Servicing, LP†	164 So. 3d 9	13
2014	Gordon v. State†	139 So. 3d 958	13
2013	Brilhart v. Brilhart ex rel. S.L.B.†	116 So. 3d 617	13
2014	Agile Assurance Group Ltd. v. Palmer†	147 So. 3d 1017	12
2009	Murphy v. Bay Colony Property Owners Ass'n	12 So. 3d 924	12
2012	SA-PG SUN CITY CENTER, LLC v. Kennedy	79 So. 3d 916	11
2010	Smith v. Smith	39 So. 3d 458	11
2016	Andujar-Ruiz v. State· Dissent†	205 So. 3d 803	9
2012	State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co. v. Bowling· Concurrence†	81 So. 3d 538	9

Showing the 15 most-cited of 182 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 Marva Crenshaw on?: Marva Crenshaw 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).