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 1997 / Served to 2002

Rodolfo Sorondo Jr.

Judge, Florida District Courts of Appeal

Rodolfo Sorondo Jr. was a Judge of the Florida District Courts of Appeal, who joined the court in 1997. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1997–2002 · 5 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1997	Florida District Courts of Appeal	–	–

Education

University of Miami

Judicial Record

In our data, Sorondo authored 90 published opinions for the court (1995–2002), plus 10 dissents and 11 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Guzman (23 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. 68 of these were attributed to Sorondo 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	State v. Guzman	697 So. 2d 1263	23
1999	Kolski Ex Rel. Kolski v. Kolski	731 So. 2d 169	22
2001	State v. Richardson	785 So. 2d 585	20
1999	Biggs v. State	745 So. 2d 1051	13
2000	Soler v. Secondary Holdings, Inc.	771 So. 2d 62	12
1997	Morse Diesel Intern. v. 2000 Island Blvd.	698 So. 2d 309	12
2000	State v. Bodden	756 So. 2d 1111	11
1998	Perrine Food Retailers v. ODYSSEY LTD.	721 So. 2d 402	11
1997	State v. Emmund	698 So. 2d 1318	11
1997	L.M. v. State†	694 So. 2d 118	11
2002	Department of Children & Family Services v. In the Interest of J.C.· Dissent†	847 So. 2d 487	10
2002	Jensen v. Rice	809 So. 2d 895	9
1998	County Bonding Agency v. State	724 So. 2d 131	9
2001	Brand v. Old Republic National Title Insurance Co.†	797 So. 2d 643	8
2000	State v. Donaldson	763 So. 2d 1252	8

Showing the 15 most-cited of 111 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 Rodolfo Sorondo Jr. on?: Rodolfo Sorondo Jr. was a Judge of the Florida District Courts of Appeal.

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5 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).