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 1984 / Served to 1987

Murray Goldman

Judge, Florida District Courts of Appeal

Murray Goldman was a Judge of the Florida District Courts of Appeal, who joined the court in 1984. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1984–1987 · 3 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1984	Florida District Courts of Appeal	–	–

Education

Boston University
University of Miami

Judicial Record

In our data, Goldman authored 9 published opinions for the court (1983–1987). Most cited: Gordon v. State (33 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. 1 of these was attributed to Goldman 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
1985	Gordon v. State	469 So. 2d 795	33
1984	Allstate Ins. Co. v. Famigletti	459 So. 2d 1149	22
1983	Hiatt v. Vaughn	430 So. 2d 597	17
1983	Kramer v. United Services Auto. Ass'n	436 So. 2d 935	14
1986	Broward County v. La Rosa	484 So. 2d 1374	13
1984	Diversified Commercial Developers, Inc. v. Formrite, Inc.	450 So. 2d 533	13
1987	Massey v. Netschke	504 So. 2d 1376	8
1985	Dobek v. Ans	475 So. 2d 1266	8
1985	Yorke v. Noble†	466 So. 2d 349	1

Showing the 9 most-cited of 9 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 Murray Goldman on?: Murray Goldman was a Judge of the Florida District Courts of Appeal.

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3 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).