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 1964 / Served to 1975

Richard W. Ervin

Justice, Supreme Court of Florida

Richard W. Ervin was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Florida, who joined the court in 1964. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1905–2004
Tenure: 1964–1975 · 11 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1964	Supreme Court of Florida	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Ervin authored 248 published opinions for the court (1964–1975), plus 103 dissents and 38 concurrences. Most cited: Mullis v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co. (251 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. 225 of these were attributed to Ervin 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
1971	Mullis v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co.	252 So. 2d 229	251
1969	Baggett v. Wainwright	229 So. 2d 239	222
1974	Mendez v. West Flagler Family Association, Inc.	303 So. 2d 1	201
1969	Shingleton v. Bussey	223 So. 2d 713	197
1966	Sellers v. United States Fidelity & Guaranty Co.	185 So. 2d 689	161
1974	Interlachen Lakes Estates, Inc. v. Snyder	304 So. 2d 433	95
1972	Post v. Lunney	261 So. 2d 146	91
1974	Campbell v. Government Employees Insurance Co.	306 So. 2d 525	88
1973	McDole v. State	283 So. 2d 553	82
1973	Tucker v. Government Employees Insurance Co.	288 So. 2d 238	80
1972	Tillman v. Baskin	260 So. 2d 509	69
1974	Straughn v. Camp	293 So. 2d 689	62
1964	Stockham v. Stockham	168 So. 2d 320	60
1969	Creviston v. General Motors Corporation	225 So. 2d 331	56
1971	O'MALLEY v. Florida Insurance Guaranty Ass'n	257 So. 2d 9	52

Showing the 15 most-cited of 389 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 Richard W. Ervin on?: Richard W. Ervin was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Florida.

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11 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).