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 2011 / Active

Ronald Swanson

Judge, Florida District Courts of Appeal

Ronald Swanson is a Judge of the Florida District Courts of Appeal, serving since 2011. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2011 · 15 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2011	Florida District Courts of Appeal	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Swanson authored 66 published opinions for the court (2011–2016), plus 12 dissents and 12 concurrences. Most cited: Washington v. State (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. 83 of these were attributed to Swanson 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
2012	Washington v. State†	103 So. 3d 917	31
2013	Florida Carry, Inc. v. University of North Florida· Concurrence†	133 So. 3d 966	22
2011	Category 5 Management Group, LLC v. Companion Property & Casualty Insurance	76 So. 3d 20	18
2015	Jane Doe v. Baptist Primary Care, Inc†	177 So. 3d 669	17
2014	Nicholas A. James v. Daniel K. Leigh, and Kenny Leigh, P.A.†	145 So. 3d 1006	17
2015	City of Jacksonville v. Smith· Concurrence†	159 So. 3d 888	16
2014	Clay County Land Trust 08-04-25-0078-014-27 v. JPMorgan Chase Bank, National Ass'n†	152 So. 3d 83	16
2012	Bondi v. Tucker· Concurrence†	93 So. 3d 1106	16
2015	Bennie John Ross v. State of Florida†	155 So. 3d 1259	15
2012	Hentze v. Denys†	88 So. 3d 307	15
2011	Ragle v. Ragle· Concurrence†	82 So. 3d 109	14
2012	Hunter v. State†	87 So. 3d 1273	12
2015	Shands Teaching Hospital & Clinics, Inc. v. Estate of Lawson ex rel. Lawson· Dissent†	175 So. 3d 327	11
2012	Zelman v. Justice Administrative Commission	78 So. 3d 105	11
2013	Austin v. Austin†	120 So. 3d 669	8

Showing the 15 most-cited of 90 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 Ronald Swanson on?: Ronald Swanson is a Judge of the Florida District Courts of Appeal.

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15 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).