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 2008 / Served to 2011

Nelly Khouzam

Judge, Florida District Courts of Appeal

Nelly Khouzam was a Judge of the Florida District Courts of Appeal, who joined the court in 2008. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 2008–2011 · 3 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2008	Florida District Courts of Appeal	–	–

Education

University of Florida

Judicial Record

In our data, Khouzam authored 106 published opinions for the court (2006–2012), plus 1 dissent and 3 concurrences. Most cited: Nieves v. State (19 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. 34 of these were attributed to Khouzam 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
2009	Nieves v. State	22 So. 3d 691	19
2011	Carmona v. WAL-MART STORES, EAST, LP	81 So. 3d 461	17
2011	Douglas v. Johnson	65 So. 3d 605	16
2010	State v. Tamulonis	39 So. 3d 524	15
2011	Smith v. State	62 So. 3d 698	14
2011	Mills v. State	58 So. 3d 936	11
2010	Gonzalez v. State	38 So. 3d 226	11
2009	TRG Night Hawk Ltd. v. Registry Development Corp.	17 So. 3d 782	9
2009	Harris v. State· Dissent†	11 So. 3d 462	9
2009	TECO Barge Line, Inc. v. Hagan	15 So. 3d 863	8
2009	Seminole Casualty Insurance Co. v. Mastrominas	6 So. 3d 1256	8
2011	Pifer v. State	59 So. 3d 225	7
2009	Clemons v. State	3 So. 3d 364	7
2008	D.B.B. v. State†	997 So. 2d 484	7
2011	Tilchin v. Tilchin	51 So. 3d 596	6

Showing the 15 most-cited of 110 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 Nelly Khouzam on?: Nelly Khouzam 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).