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 2015 / Active

Samuel J. Salario Jr.

Judge, Florida District Courts of Appeal

Samuel J. Salario Jr. is a Judge of the Florida District Courts of Appeal, serving since 2015. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2015 · 11 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2015	Florida District Courts of Appeal	–	–

Education

American University
University of Florida

Judicial Record

In our data, Salario authored 69 published opinions for the court (2015–2019), plus 1 concurrence. Most cited: Green Tree Servicing, LLC v. Milam (50 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. 70 of these were attributed to Salario 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
2015	Green Tree Servicing, LLC v. Milam†	177 So. 3d 7	50
2016	National Auto Service Centers, Inc. v. F/R 550, LLC†	192 So. 3d 498	28
2017	Fernandez v. State†	212 So. 3d 494	16
2015	Dravis v. Dravis†	170 So. 3d 849	15
2017	AGM Investors, LLC v. Business Law Group, P.A.†	219 So. 3d 920	13
2016	Cottrell v. Taylor, Bean & Whitaker Mortgage Corp.†	198 So. 3d 688	12
2017	Winchel v. PennyMac Corp.†	222 So. 3d 639	9
2017	Landmark Funding, Inc. v. Chaluts†	213 So. 3d 1078	9
2016	Mahar v. State†	190 So. 3d 1123	9
2015	Dickson v. Roseville Properties, LLC†	198 So. 3d 48	9
2016	Burgess v. State†	198 So. 3d 1151	8
2017	D.H. Ex Rel. R.H. v. Adept Community Services, Inc.†	217 So. 3d 1072	6
2016	Ter Keurst v. Ter Keurst†	202 So. 3d 123	6
2016	Florida Holdings III, LLC v. Duerst Ex Rel. Duerst†	198 So. 3d 834	6
2015	Slora v. Sun 'n Fun Fly-In, Inc.†	173 So. 3d 1099	6

Showing the 15 most-cited of 70 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 Samuel J. Salario Jr. on?: Samuel J. Salario Jr. is a Judge of the Florida District Courts of Appeal.

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11 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).