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 1961 / Served to 1988

Norman Hendry

Judge, Florida District Courts of Appeal

Norman Hendry was a Judge of the Florida District Courts of Appeal, who joined the court in 1961. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1905–1988
Tenure: 1961–1988 · 27 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1961	Florida District Courts of Appeal	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Hendry authored 613 published opinions for the court (1961–1988), plus 25 dissents and 6 concurrences. Most cited: T.J.T. v. State (32 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. 627 of these were attributed to Hendry 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
1984	T.J.T. v. State†	460 So. 2d 508	32
1985	J.W. v. State†	467 So. 2d 796	30
1975	In re Forfeiture of 1972 Porsche 2 Dr., '74 Florida License Tag Id 91780 Vin 9111200334†	307 So. 2d 451	27
1979	Hartford Acc. & Indem. Co. v. Sheffield	375 So. 2d 598	26
1961	Williams v. Florida Industrial Commission	135 So. 2d 435	20
1979	Sunrise Point, Inc. v. Foss	373 So. 2d 438	19
1987	Crocker Investments, Inc. v. Statesman Life Insurance Co.†	515 So. 2d 1305	18
1983	Maguire v. American Family Life Assurance Co. of Columbus†	442 So. 2d 321	17
1978	State ex rel. Reno v. Barquet†	358 So. 2d 230	17
1972	City National Bank of Miami v. Blake†	257 So. 2d 264	17
1979	City of Coral Gables v. Puiggros	376 So. 2d 281	15
1987	Harrell v. Harrell†	515 So. 2d 1302	14
1986	Corona Properties of Florida, Inc. v. Monroe County†	485 So. 2d 1314	14
1985	Poller v. First Virginia Mortgage & Real Estate Investment Trust†	471 So. 2d 104	14
1980	McAnnis v. State	386 So. 2d 1230	13

Showing the 15 most-cited of 644 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 Norman Hendry on?: Norman Hendry was a Judge of the Florida District Courts of Appeal.

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27 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).