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 2009 / Active

Nikki Ann Clark

Judge, Florida District Courts of Appeal

Nikki Ann Clark is a Judge of the Florida District Courts of Appeal, serving since 2009. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2009 · 17 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2009	Florida District Courts of Appeal	–	–

Education

Wayne State University
Florida State University

Judicial Record

In our data, Clark authored 115 published opinions for the court (2002–2015), plus 18 dissents and 5 concurrences. Most cited: Zuluaga v. State, Dept. of Corrections (36 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. 98 of these were attributed to Clark 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
2010	Zuluaga v. State, Dept. of Corrections	32 So. 3d 674	36
2010	Joyner v. State	41 So. 3d 306	26
2009	Shootes v. State	20 So. 3d 434	23
2009	State v. Carter	23 So. 3d 798	18
2013	B.K.A. v. State†	122 So. 3d 928	16
2014	Lloyd Steve Burdeshaw and Teresa Burdeshaw v. The Bank of New York Mellon etc.†	148 So. 3d 819	15
2013	R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. v. Sury†	118 So. 3d 849	15
2013	Milton v. Milton†	113 So. 3d 1040	14
2014	Jovita C. Ibeagwa v. State of Florida· Dissent†	141 So. 3d 246	12
2012	Hills v. State†	90 So. 3d 927	12
2011	Holub v. Holub	54 So. 3d 585	12
2009	Mills v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co.†	27 So. 3d 95	12
2012	Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. v. Reeves†	92 So. 3d 249	11
2010	Citizens Property Insurance Corp. v. San Perdido Ass'n	46 So. 3d 1051	11
2010	Jacobs v. State	41 So. 3d 1004	11

Showing the 15 most-cited of 138 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 Nikki Ann Clark on?: Nikki Ann Clark is a Judge of the Florida District Courts of Appeal.

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17 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).