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

Supreme Court of Florida / Joined 1962 / Served to 1969

Millard F. Caldwell

Justice, Supreme Court of Florida

Millard F. Caldwell was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Florida, who joined the court in 1962. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1897–1984
Tenure: 1962–1969 · 7 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1962	Supreme Court of Florida	–	–

Education

University of Mississippi
University of Virginia-Main Campus

Judicial Record

In our data, Caldwell authored 68 published opinions for the court (1962–1969), plus 24 dissents and 1 concurrence. Most cited: Del Vecchio v. Del Vecchio (130 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. 57 of these were attributed to Caldwell 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
1962	Del Vecchio v. Del Vecchio	143 So. 2d 17	130
1967	Life Insurance Company of Virginia v. Shifflet	201 So. 2d 715	71
1967	O'NEILL v. Burns	198 So. 2d 1	60
1965	Burritt v. Harris	172 So. 2d 820	51
1967	City of Miami v. Horne	198 So. 2d 10	48
1965	Grant v. State	171 So. 2d 361	44
1967	Cappetta v. Wainwright	203 So. 2d 609	40
1964	City of Miami v. Smith	165 So. 2d 748	37
1965	Zabel v. Pinellas County Water & Nav. Con. Auth.	171 So. 2d 376	29
1964	Confederation Life Association v. Ugalde	164 So. 2d 1	28
1969	Masciarelli v. MacO Supply Corp.	224 So. 2d 329	26
1966	Stevens Markets, Inc. v. Markantonatos	189 So. 2d 624	24
1965	Midstate Hauling Company v. Fowler	176 So. 2d 87	24
1966	Carter v. State Road Department	189 So. 2d 793	19
1965	In Re Estate of Freeland	182 So. 2d 425	19

Showing the 15 most-cited of 93 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 Millard F. Caldwell on?: Millard F. Caldwell was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Florida.

Sources

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7 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).