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 2000 / Active

Robert Pleus

Judge, Florida District Courts of Appeal

Robert Pleus is a Judge of the Florida District Courts of Appeal, serving since 2000. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2000 · 26 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2000	Florida District Courts of Appeal	–	–

Education

University of Notre Dame
University of Florida

Judicial Record

In our data, Pleus authored 432 published opinions for the court (1957–2015), plus 9 dissents and 5 concurrences. Most cited: McMillan v. State (75 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. 169 of these were attributed to Pleus 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
2002	McMillan v. State	832 So. 2d 946	75
2005	Williams v. State	907 So. 2d 1224	42
2001	Al-Hakim v. State	783 So. 2d 293	34
2001	Wright v. State	780 So. 2d 216	34
2001	Thomas v. State	778 So. 2d 429	32
2001	GC v. Department of Children and Families	791 So. 2d 17	27
2001	American Equity Ins. Co. v. Van Ginhoven	788 So. 2d 388	26
2007	A.J. v. K.A.O.†	951 So. 2d 30	22
2001	Avid Engineering, Inc. v. Orlando Marketplace Ltd.	809 So. 2d 1	22
2006	Cain v. Banka	932 So. 2d 575	21
1957	Pancoast v. Pancoast	97 So. 2d 875	21
2006	Davis v. State	922 So. 2d 438	20
2002	Quaker Oats Co. v. Jewell	818 So. 2d 574	20
2001	P.R. v. State†	782 So. 2d 911	18
2007	Tractor Supply Co. v. Kent	966 So. 2d 978	17

Showing the 15 most-cited of 447 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 Pleus on?: Robert Pleus is a Judge of the Florida District Courts of Appeal.

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26 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).