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 1999 / Served to 2001

Monterey Campbell

Judge, Florida District Courts of Appeal

Monterey Campbell was a Judge of the Florida District Courts of Appeal, who joined the court in 1999. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1999–2001 · 2 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1999	Florida District Courts of Appeal	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Campbell authored 512 published opinions for the court (1980–2001). Most cited: King v. State (75 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 Campbell 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
1992	King v. State	597 So. 2d 309	75
1994	Tomlinson v. State	645 So. 2d 1	56
1986	Corbett v. D'Alessandro	487 So. 2d 368	49
1999	Humana, Inc. v. Castillo	728 So. 2d 261	39
1985	Wasden v. Seaboard Coast Line R. Co.	474 So. 2d 825	37
1992	Ricardo v. State	608 So. 2d 93	32
1984	Bowen v. FLA. DEPT. OF ENVTL. REG.	448 So. 2d 566	31
1988	Mosley v. State	519 So. 2d 58	30
1984	Bell v. State	453 So. 2d 478	30
1987	Saunders Leasing System, Inc. v. GULF CENT. DISTRIB., CENTER, INC.	513 So. 2d 1303	29
1994	Wilcox v. Stout	637 So. 2d 335	28
1985	Smith v. Telophase Nat. Cremation Soc., Inc.	471 So. 2d 163	28
1995	Coronado v. State	654 So. 2d 1267	26
1990	Theis v. J & J RACING PROMOTIONS	571 So. 2d 92	25
1987	Hoefert v. State	509 So. 2d 1090	25

Showing the 15 most-cited of 512 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 Monterey Campbell on?: Monterey Campbell was a Judge of the Florida District Courts of Appeal.

Sources

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2 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).