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 2010 / Active

Simone Marstiller

Judge, Florida District Courts of Appeal

Simone Marstiller is a Judge of the Florida District Courts of Appeal, serving since 2010. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2010 · 16 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2010	Florida District Courts of Appeal	–	–

Education

Stetson University
Stetson University

Judicial Record

In our data, Marstiller authored 119 published opinions for the court (2010–2015), plus 5 dissents and 7 concurrences. Most cited: R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. v. Martin (91 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. 102 of these were attributed to Marstiller 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
2010	R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. v. Martin	53 So. 3d 1060	91
2013	Walton v. State†	106 So. 3d 522	63
2014	Williams v. State†	143 So. 3d 423	60
2013	State v. Murphy†	124 So. 3d 323	35
2014	Larry Gene Williams v. Wanda Elaine Williams†	152 So. 3d 702	24
2010	Morton's of Chicago, Inc. v. Lira· Concurrence†	48 So. 3d 76	23
2014	Hunter v. Aurora Loan Services, LLC†	137 So. 3d 570	22
2015	Tush-ee Lewis Hunter v. State of Florida†	174 So. 3d 1011	17
2012	Nath v. State Department of Health†	100 So. 3d 1273	13
2014	Howard v. State†	147 So. 3d 1040	12
2013	Harris v. State†	111 So. 3d 922	12
2011	Florida State University Board of Trustees v. Monk†	68 So. 3d 316	12
2013	Jones v. State†	114 So. 3d 1123	11
2012	Jenkins v. State†	96 So. 3d 1110	11
2012	SS v. Department of Children and Families	81 So. 3d 618	10

Showing the 15 most-cited of 131 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 Simone Marstiller on?: Simone Marstiller is a Judge of the Florida District Courts of Appeal.

Sources

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16 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).