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 1995 / Active

Robert M. Gross

Judge, Florida District Courts of Appeal

Robert M. Gross is a Judge of the Florida District Courts of Appeal, serving since 1995. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 1995 · 31 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1995	Florida District Courts of Appeal	–	–

Education

Williams College
Cornell University

Judicial Record

In our data, Gross authored 884 published opinions for the court (1994–2019), plus 22 dissents and 41 concurrences. Most cited: Commerce v. Equity (147 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. 447 of these were attributed to Gross 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
1997	Commerce v. Equity	695 So. 2d 383	147
1999	Salit v. Ruden, McClosky, Smith, Schuster	742 So. 2d 381	93
1997	Bozeman v. State	698 So. 2d 629	66
1998	Billian v. Mobil Corp.	710 So. 2d 984	60
2013	Aery v. Wallace Lincoln-Mercury, LLC†	118 So. 3d 904	56
1996	A.J. v. State†	677 So. 2d 935	47
2009	Palm Beach County Health Care District v. Professional Medical Education, Inc.	13 So. 3d 1090	46
2006	Della Ratta v. Della Ratta	927 So. 2d 1055	42
1994	Flemenbaum v. Flemenbaum	636 So. 2d 579	42
2012	Deutsche Bank National Trust Co. v. Clarke†	87 So. 3d 58	41
2000	Lowe v. Broward County	766 So. 2d 1199	41
2001	State Farm Fire and Casualty Co. v. Higgins	788 So. 2d 992	39
1999	Rollinson v. State· Concurrence†	743 So. 2d 585	39
2013	Congress Park Office Condos II, LLC v. First-Citizens Bank & Trust Co.†	105 So. 3d 602	38
2006	Garzon v. State	939 So. 2d 278	38

Showing the 15 most-cited of 948 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 is Robert M. Gross on?: Robert M. Gross is a Judge of the Florida District Courts of Appeal.

Sources

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31 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).