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 1996 / Served to 2005

Robert L. Shevin

Judge, Florida District Courts of Appeal

Robert L. Shevin was a Judge of the Florida District Courts of Appeal, who joined the court in 1996. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1934–2005
Tenure: 1996–2005 · 9 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1996	Florida District Courts of Appeal	–	–

Education

University of Florida
University of Miami

Judicial Record

In our data, Shevin authored 162 published opinions for the court (1996–2004), plus 1 dissent and 6 concurrences. Most cited: Lipsig v. Ramlawi (66 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. 124 of these were attributed to Shevin 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
2000	Lipsig v. Ramlawi	760 So. 2d 170	66
2000	Cozza v. State	756 So. 2d 272	30
2004	D.T.B. v. State†	892 So. 2d 522	22
1998	Clemente v. Horne	707 So. 2d 865	22
2002	JTA Factors, Inc. v. PHILCON SERV., INC.	820 So. 2d 367	20
1999	DEPARTMENT OF HIGHWAY SAFETY v. Weinstein	747 So. 2d 1019	20
2002	Lidsky Vaccaro & Montes, PA v. Morejon	813 So. 2d 146	18
1998	Metropolitan Dade County v. State Department of Environmental Protection†	714 So. 2d 512	18
1999	Stanton v. State	746 So. 2d 1229	17
2000	Paradigm Ins. v. P & C Ins. Systems	747 So. 2d 1040	15
1998	Metropolitan Dade County v. Milton	707 So. 2d 913	15
2001	Collier v. State	796 So. 2d 629	14
1997	Wong Ken v. State Farm Fire & Cas. Co.	685 So. 2d 1002	13
1999	Ventura v. State	741 So. 2d 1187	12
1996	State v. J.A.†	679 So. 2d 316	12

Showing the 15 most-cited of 169 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 Robert L. Shevin on?: Robert L. Shevin was a Judge of the Florida District Courts of Appeal.

Sources

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9 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).