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 1991 / Served to 2011

Peter D. Webster

Judge, Florida District Courts of Appeal

Peter D. Webster was a Judge of the Florida District Courts of Appeal, who joined the court in 1991. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1949 · age 77
Tenure: 1991–2011 · 20 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1991	Florida District Courts of Appeal	–	–

Education

Georgetown University
Duke University

Judicial Record

In our data, Webster authored 408 published opinions for the court (1986–2011), plus 11 dissents and 18 concurrences. Most cited: Woods v. State (146 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. 144 of these were attributed to Webster 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
1999	Woods v. State	740 So. 2d 20	146
2001	Harris v. State	789 So. 2d 1114	109
2003	Gainesville Health Care Center, Inc. v. Weston	857 So. 2d 278	95
1997	Stone v. State	688 So. 2d 1006	90
2005	White v. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.	918 So. 2d 357	53
2003	Tedder v. FLORIDA PAROLE COM'N	842 So. 2d 1022	43
1993	Nordyne v. Florida Mobile Home Supply	625 So. 2d 1283	43
1997	Neal v. State	688 So. 2d 392	42
1993	Carlton v. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.	621 So. 2d 451	40
2006	Cox v. Crosby	27 So. 3d 45	32
1991	Bill Williams Air Conditioning & Heating, Inc. v. Haymarket Co-Op. Bank	592 So. 2d 302	30
2000	Centennial Mortg., Inc. v. SG/SC, LTD.	772 So. 2d 564	28
1999	Hill v. Ray Carter Auto Sales, Inc.	745 So. 2d 1136	27
1998	Hill v. State	711 So. 2d 1221	26
2000	City of St. Petersburg v. Nasworthy	751 So. 2d 772	24

Showing the 15 most-cited of 438 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 Peter D. Webster on?: Peter D. Webster was a Judge of the Florida District Courts of Appeal.

Sources

Each fact on this page traces to a primary public record.

How we source & reconcile data → Data & Sources

See something wrong? Report an error. Fixes are logged in the corrections log.

20 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).