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 1979 / Served to 1980

Spencer C. Cross

Judge, Florida District Courts of Appeal

Spencer C. Cross was a Judge of the Florida District Courts of Appeal, who joined the court in 1979. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1979–1980 · 1 yr

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1979	Florida District Courts of Appeal	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Cross authored 152 published opinions for the court (1967–1980), plus 3 dissents and 1 concurrence. Most cited: Belford Trucking Co. v. Zagar (101 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. 6 of these were attributed to Cross 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
1970	Belford Trucking Co. v. Zagar	243 So. 2d 646	101
1976	Hively v. State	336 So. 2d 127	65
1971	Symon v. J. Rolfe Davis, Inc.	245 So. 2d 278	50
1967	Groneau v. State	201 So. 2d 599	49
1978	Kern v. Kern	360 So. 2d 482	47
1978	Boat Town USA v. MERCURY MARINE DIV	364 So. 2d 15	43
1967	Zabner v. Howard Johnson's, Incorporated	201 So. 2d 824	43
1970	Geer v. Bennett	237 So. 2d 311	42
1967	Webster v. State	201 So. 2d 789	40
1978	COSMO. HEALTH SPA, INC. v. Health Industries, Inc.	362 So. 2d 367	38
1973	Youngblood v. Citrus Assoc. of NY Cotton Exch., Inc.	276 So. 2d 505	36
1971	Ballard v. Krause	248 So. 2d 233	34
1977	McCabe v. Walt Disney World Co.	350 So. 2d 814	33
1972	Kephart v. Pickens	271 So. 2d 163	33
1968	Kest v. Nathanson	216 So. 2d 233	33

Showing the 15 most-cited of 156 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 Spencer C. Cross on?: Spencer C. Cross was a Judge of the Florida District Courts of Appeal.

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1 year 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).