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 2007

Richard W. Ervin

Judge, Florida District Courts of Appeal

Richard W. Ervin was a Judge of the Florida District Courts of Appeal, who joined the court in 1977. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1977–2007 · 30 yrs

Judicial service

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

Education

Florida State University
University of Florida

Judicial Record

In our data, Ervin authored 1,257 published opinions for the court (1977–2006), plus 91 dissents and 88 concurrences. Most cited: Cassisi v. Maytag Co. (115 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. 668 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
1981	Cassisi v. Maytag Co.	396 So. 2d 1140	115
1977	Pasco Cty. Sch. Bd. v. Florida Public Emp. Rel. Comm.	353 So. 2d 108	107
1990	Barber v. State	564 So. 2d 1169	88
1983	Hu v. Crockett	426 So. 2d 1275	70
1984	Zediker v. Zediker	444 So. 2d 1034	68
1984	DEPT. OF PROF. REG., BD. OF MEDICAL v. Durrani	455 So. 2d 515	67
1982	Jones v. State	421 So. 2d 55	67
1981	Daniels v. Florida Parole & Probation Comm'n	401 So. 2d 1351	66
1983	Sasso v. Ram Property Management	431 So. 2d 204	62
1978	FLORIDA DEPT., OF OFFENDER REHAB. v. Jerry	353 So. 2d 1230	57
1983	Brown v. State	426 So. 2d 76	54
1983	Pruitt v. Brock	437 So. 2d 768	52
1991	Florida Dept. of Community Affairs v. Bryant	586 So. 2d 1205	46
1983	Taylor v. State	425 So. 2d 1191	46
1979	Ford Motor Credit Co. v. Sheehan	373 So. 2d 956	43

Showing the 15 most-cited of 1,438 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 Richard W. Ervin on?: Richard W. Ervin was a Judge of the Florida District Courts of Appeal.

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30 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).