How do judges of the Supreme Court of Florida reach the bench?

The court's current selection method is merit selection with retention.

Supreme Court of Florida / Joined 1998 / Former Justice

Peggy A. Quince

Justice, Supreme Court of Florida

Peggy A. Quince was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Florida (7 judges, selected by merit selection with retention), who joined the court in 1998. They previously served on the Florida District Courts of Appeal. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1948 · age 78
Tenure: 1998 · 27 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1994	Florida District Courts of Appeal	–	–
1998	Supreme Court of Florida	–	–

Education

Howard University

Judicial Record

In our data, Quince authored 376 published opinions for the court (1994–2019), plus 84 dissents and 28 concurrences. Most cited: Volusia County v. Aberdeen at Ormond Beach (905 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. 298 of these were attributed to Quince 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
2000	Volusia County v. Aberdeen at Ormond Beach	760 So. 2d 126	905
2003	Allstate Ins. Co. v. Kaklamanos	843 So. 2d 885	258
2003	Ashley v. State	850 So. 2d 1265	189
2005	Daniels v. Florida Dept. of Health	898 So. 2d 61	173
2000	Mazzoni Farms, Inc. v. EI DuPont De Nemours and Co.	761 So. 2d 306	131
2003	Gethers v. State	838 So. 2d 504	123
2002	Caufield v. Cantele	837 So. 2d 371	120
2000	Joshua v. City of Gainesville	768 So. 2d 432	109
2002	State v. Carter	835 So. 2d 259	108
2004	Perlow v. Berg-Perlow	875 So. 2d 383	105
2010	McWatters v. State· Concurrence†	36 So. 3d 613	98
2001	State v. Huggins	802 So. 2d 276	97
2012	Braddy v. State· Dissent†	111 So. 3d 810	96
2012	QBE Insurance Corp. v. Chalfonte Condominium Apartment Ass'n†	94 So. 3d 541	86
2010	Ross v. State· Concurrence†	45 So. 3d 403	86

Showing the 15 most-cited of 488 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 Supreme Court of Florida reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is merit selection with retention.
Which court was Peggy A. Quince on?: Peggy A. Quince was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Florida.

Sources

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27 years on the Supreme Court of Florida. Data as of 2026-03-31. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).