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 2014 / Active

Matthew C. Lucas

Judge, Florida District Courts of Appeal

Matthew C. Lucas is a Judge of the Florida District Courts of Appeal, serving since 2014. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2014 · 11 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2014	Florida District Courts of Appeal	–	–

Education

Florida State University
University of Florida

Judicial Record

In our data, Lucas authored 54 published opinions for the court (2015–2018), plus 2 dissents and 5 concurrences. Most cited: Corrigan v. Bank of America, N.A. (20 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. 61 of these were attributed to Lucas 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
2016	Corrigan v. Bank of America, N.A.· Concurrence†	189 So. 3d 187	20
2016	Deutsche Bank National Trust Co. v. Kummer†	195 So. 3d 1173	18
2016	Phan v. Deutsche Bank National Trust Company†	198 So. 3d 744	14
2015	Bank of America, National Ass'n v. Asbury†	165 So. 3d 808	14
2015	Pena v. Fox†	198 So. 3d 61	13
2015	Mosley v. State†	198 So. 3d 58	13
2016	Deutsche Bank National Trust Company v. Quinion†	198 So. 3d 701	12
2016	J.L.C. v. State†	189 So. 3d 260	9
2015	Roach v. Brower†	180 So. 3d 1142	9
2015	Florida Farm Bureau General Insurance Co. v. Peacock's Excavating Service, Inc.†	186 So. 3d 6	8
2016	Ventures Trust 2013-I-H-R Ex Rel. JPMorgan Chase Bank, National Ass'n v. Asset Acquisitions & Holdings Trust†	202 So. 3d 939	6
2015	Pethtel v. State†	177 So. 3d 631	6
2018	Bank of N.Y. Mellon v. Bloedel†	236 So. 3d 1164	5
2016	Florida Peninsula Insurance Company v. Wagner†	196 So. 3d 419	5
2016	Welch v. State†	189 So. 3d 296	5

Showing the 15 most-cited of 61 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 Matthew C. Lucas on?: Matthew C. Lucas is a Judge of the Florida District Courts of Appeal.

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11 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).