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 1977 / Served to 1996

Phillip A. Hubbart

Judge, Florida District Courts of Appeal

Phillip A. Hubbart was a Judge of the Florida District Courts of Appeal, who joined the court in 1977. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1977–1996 · 19 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1977	Florida District Courts of Appeal	–	–

Education

Duke University

Judicial Record

In our data, Hubbart authored 125 published opinions for the court (1977–1996), plus 29 dissents and 16 concurrences. Most cited: D.A. v. State (64 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. 106 of these were attributed to Hubbart 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
1985	D.A. v. State†	471 So. 2d 147	64
1995	L.A.T. v. State· Concurrence†	650 So. 2d 214	38
1980	Postell v. State	383 So. 2d 1159	31
1979	Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation v. Rievman	370 So. 2d 33	26
1980	Redondo v. State	380 So. 2d 1107	25
1980	Scott v. Johnson	386 So. 2d 67	22
1980	Clark v. State	378 So. 2d 1315	21
1979	Carter v. Cross	373 So. 2d 81	21
1994	Mesa v. State	632 So. 2d 1094	19
1987	S.W. v. State†	513 So. 2d 1088	17
1981	D. M. v. State†	394 So. 2d 520	17
1979	Alejano v. HARTFORD ACCIDENT & INDEM.	378 So. 2d 104	17
1979	Marchion Terrazzo, Inc. v. Altman	372 So. 2d 512	17
1980	City of Miami Beach v. Town of Bay Harbor	380 So. 2d 1112	16
1979	Corbett v. Dade County Board of Public Instruction· Dissent†	372 So. 2d 971	16

Showing the 15 most-cited of 170 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 Phillip A. Hubbart on?: Phillip A. Hubbart was a Judge of the Florida District Courts of Appeal.

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19 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).