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 1981 / Served to 1991

Raymond Ehrlich

Justice, Supreme Court of Florida

Raymond Ehrlich was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Florida, who joined the court in 1981. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1918–2005
Tenure: 1981–1991 · 10 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1981	Supreme Court of Florida	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Ehrlich authored 279 published opinions for the court (1982–1991), plus 14 dissents and 33 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Law (545 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. 100 of these were attributed to Ehrlich 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
1989	State v. Law	559 So. 2d 187	545
1985	Argonaut Ins. Co. v. May Plumbing Co.	474 So. 2d 212	406
1985	Metropolitan Life Ins. Co. v. McCarson	467 So. 2d 277	297
1986	Pope v. Wainwright	496 So. 2d 798	230
1989	State v. Green	547 So. 2d 925	195
1990	MacKenzie v. Super Kids Bargain Store, Inc.	565 So. 2d 1332	160
1988	Mays v. State	519 So. 2d 618	160
1984	Pan-Am Tobacco v. Department of Corrections	471 So. 2d 4	150
1989	In re T.W.· Concurrence†	551 So. 2d 1186	142
1985	Cruz v. State	465 So. 2d 516	140
1988	Torres-Arboledo v. State	524 So. 2d 403	137
1988	Quarterman v. State	527 So. 2d 1380	129
1988	Glendening v. State	536 So. 2d 212	128
1983	Pope v. State	441 So. 2d 1073	128
1990	Huff v. State	569 So. 2d 1247	125

Showing the 15 most-cited of 326 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 Raymond Ehrlich on?: Raymond Ehrlich was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Florida.

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10 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).