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 1975 / Served to 1997

Randolph Bentley

Judge, Florida District Courts of Appeal

Randolph Bentley was a Judge of the Florida District Courts of Appeal, who joined the court in 1975. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1932 · age 94
Tenure: 1975–1997 · 22 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1975	Florida District Courts of Appeal	–	–

Education

University of Florida

Judicial Record

In our data, Bentley authored 4 published opinions for the court (1985–2000). Most cited: Miceli v. Gilmac Developers, Inc. (14 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. 1 of these was attributed to Bentley 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	Miceli v. Gilmac Developers, Inc.	467 So. 2d 404	14
2000	Hobby v. State	761 So. 2d 1234	11
1992	Askew v. Allstate Title & Abstract Co.	603 So. 2d 29	7
1992	Ferguson v. State†	600 So. 2d 53	0

Showing the 4 most-cited of 4 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 Randolph Bentley on?: Randolph Bentley was a Judge of the Florida District Courts of Appeal.

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22 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).