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 2001 / Active

Morris Silberman

Judge, Florida District Courts of Appeal

Morris Silberman is a Judge of the Florida District Courts of Appeal, serving since 2001. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2001 · 25 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2001	Florida District Courts of Appeal	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Silberman authored 782 published opinions for the court (2001–2019), plus 1 dissent and 19 concurrences. Most cited: Focht v. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. (66 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. 432 of these were attributed to Silberman 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
2013	Focht v. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.†	124 So. 3d 308	66
2009	Doby v. State	25 So. 3d 598	65
2003	E.A.B. v. State†	851 So. 2d 308	63
2004	Geer v. Jacobsen	880 So. 2d 717	48
2013	Little v. State†	111 So. 3d 214	44
2014	Shelley v. State†	134 So. 3d 1138	41
2006	Githens v. BON SECOURS-MARIA MANOR	928 So. 2d 1272	38
2006	Roberts v. Sarros	920 So. 2d 193	38
2007	Nusspickel v. State	966 So. 2d 441	35
2010	Wilcox v. Munoz	35 So. 3d 136	34
2015	Kearns v. Farmer Acquisition Company†	157 So. 3d 458	33
2013	Correa v. U.S. Bank National Ass'n†	118 So. 3d 952	32
2005	Radford v. Brock	914 So. 2d 1066	31
2006	Coates v. Akerman, Senterfitt & Eidson	940 So. 2d 504	29
2003	Pickett v. State	839 So. 2d 860	27

Showing the 15 most-cited of 802 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 Morris Silberman on?: Morris Silberman is a Judge of the Florida District Courts of Appeal.

Sources

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25 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).