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 2009 / Active

Robert Morris

Judge, Florida District Courts of Appeal

Robert Morris is a Judge of the Florida District Courts of Appeal, serving since 2009. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2009 · 17 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2009	Florida District Courts of Appeal	–	–

Education

University of Florida
DePaul University

Judicial Record

In our data, Morris authored 320 published opinions for the court (2009–2018), plus 1 dissent and 5 concurrences. Most cited: Whitburn, LLC v. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. (31 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. 250 of these were attributed to Morris 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
2015	Whitburn, LLC v. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.†	190 So. 3d 1087	31
2013	Stone v. BankUnited†	115 So. 3d 411	29
2014	Barnhill v. State†	140 So. 3d 1055	22
2011	Fortune v. Fortune†	61 So. 3d 441	18
2013	Heiny v. Heiny†	113 So. 3d 897	15
2011	Essex Insurance Co. v. Big Top of Tampa, Inc.	53 So. 3d 1220	15
2010	Oliveros v. Adventist Health Systems/Sunbelt, Inc.	45 So. 3d 873	15
2010	Morgan v. Coats	33 So. 3d 59	15
2013	United States Fire Insurance Co. v. ADT Security Services, Inc.†	134 So. 3d 477	13
2010	Department of Children & Family Services v. S.H.†	49 So. 3d 846	13
2014	Wagner v. Bank of America, N.A.†	143 So. 3d 447	12
2012	Fundamental Long Term Care Holdings, LLC v. Estate of Jackson ex rel. Jackson-Platts†	110 So. 3d 6	12
2012	Rell v. McCulla†	101 So. 3d 878	12
2011	Santiago v. Santiago	51 So. 3d 637	12
2010	Mendez v. State	28 So. 3d 948	12

Showing the 15 most-cited of 327 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 Morris on?: Robert Morris is a Judge of the Florida District Courts of Appeal.

Sources

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17 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).