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 2001 / Served to 2008

Ricky Polston

Judge, Florida District Courts of Appeal

Ricky Polston was a Judge of the Florida District Courts of Appeal, who joined the court in 2001. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 2001–2008 · 7 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2001	Florida District Courts of Appeal	–	–

Education

Florida State University
Florida State University

Judicial Record

In our data, Polston authored 83 published opinions for the court (2001–2007), plus 4 dissents and 3 concurrences. Most cited: Y.H. v. F.L.H. (22 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. 39 of these were attributed to Polston 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
2001	Y.H. v. F.L.H.· Dissent†	784 So. 2d 565	22
2004	Mosher v. State	876 So. 2d 1230	19
2001	Dean v. Johns	789 So. 2d 1072	17
2006	XL SPECIALTY INS. v. Aircraft Holdings	929 So. 2d 578	14
2002	Werley v. State	814 So. 2d 1159	14
2004	Ouellette v. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.	888 So. 2d 90	13
2001	Bowden v. State	787 So. 2d 185	12
2006	Childers v. State· Concurrence†	936 So. 2d 619	10
2003	Johnson v. State	842 So. 2d 228	10
2006	Lakeland Regional Medical Ctr. Inc. v. Ahca	917 So. 2d 1024	9
2005	Ward v. Brown†	919 So. 2d 462	9
2004	Simmons v. State	886 So. 2d 399	9
2004	CAUCUS OF BLACK STATE LEGISLATORS v. Crosby	877 So. 2d 861	9
2002	F.E.A. v. State†	804 So. 2d 528	9
2007	Avalon Center v. Hardaway	967 So. 2d 268	8

Showing the 15 most-cited of 90 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 Ricky Polston on?: Ricky Polston was a Judge of the Florida District Courts of Appeal.

Sources

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7 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).