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 1967 / Served to 1975

Sam Spector

Judge, Florida District Courts of Appeal

Sam Spector was a Judge of the Florida District Courts of Appeal, who joined the court in 1967. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1967–1975 · 8 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1967	Florida District Courts of Appeal	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Spector authored 296 published opinions for the court (1967–1975), plus 19 dissents and 6 concurrences. Most cited: State ex rel. Greenberg v. Florida State Board of Dentistry (208 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. 219 of these were attributed to Spector 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
1974	State ex rel. Greenberg v. Florida State Board of Dentistry· Dissent†	297 So. 2d 628	208
1969	Florida Development Commission v. Dickinson†	229 So. 2d 6	45
1972	Arant v. State	256 So. 2d 515	42
1970	Bass v. State	232 So. 2d 25	42
1974	Morrell v. State	297 So. 2d 579	40
1971	Kelly v. State	254 So. 2d 22	40
1970	Holman v. Ford Motor Company	239 So. 2d 40	39
1971	Thomas v. State	250 So. 2d 15	30
1969	Hines v. State	227 So. 2d 334	30
1971	Woldarsky v. Woldarsky	243 So. 2d 629	28
1974	Estes v. State	294 So. 2d 122	27
1970	Remp v. State	248 So. 2d 677	26
1972	Richards Company v. Harrison	262 So. 2d 258	25
1968	Skaff v. United States Fidelity & Guaranty Company	215 So. 2d 35	25
1970	Peterson v. State	237 So. 2d 223	23

Showing the 15 most-cited of 324 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 Sam Spector on?: Sam Spector was a Judge of the Florida District Courts of Appeal.

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8 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).