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 1980 / Served to 1996

Natalie Baskin

Judge, Florida District Courts of Appeal

Natalie Baskin was a Judge of the Florida District Courts of Appeal, who joined the court in 1980. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1930–1996
Tenure: 1980–1996 · 16 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1980	Florida District Courts of Appeal	–	–

Education

University of Miami

Judicial Record

In our data, Baskin authored 347 published opinions for the court (1976–1995), plus 55 dissents and 24 concurrences. Most cited: Devin v. City of Hollywood (42 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. 396 of these were attributed to Baskin 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
1976	Devin v. City of Hollywood	351 So. 2d 1022	42
1983	State v. C.C.†	449 So. 2d 280	36
1995	State v. Russell	659 So. 2d 465	33
1976	Imperial Towers Condominium, Inc. v. Brown	338 So. 2d 1081	27
1980	E. Y. v. State· Concurrence†	390 So. 2d 776	23
1986	Public Health Trust of Dade County v. Knuck†	495 So. 2d 834	22
1993	Young v. State	616 So. 2d 1133	20
1984	R.M. v. State†	450 So. 2d 897	19
1995	Barber v. State	661 So. 2d 355	17
1982	R. M. v. State†	412 So. 2d 44	15
1989	K.M. v. State†	545 So. 2d 464	13
1984	Fraga v. Department of Health & Rehabilitative Services†	464 So. 2d 144	13
1980	Parsons v. Weinstein Enterprises, Inc.	387 So. 2d 1044	13
1988	E.B. v. State†	531 So. 2d 1053	12
1994	CAC-Ramsay Health Plans, Inc. v. Johnson	641 So. 2d 434	11

Showing the 15 most-cited of 426 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 Natalie Baskin on?: Natalie Baskin was a Judge of the Florida District Courts of Appeal.

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16 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).