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 2009 / Active

Spencer D. Levine

Judge, Florida District Courts of Appeal

Spencer D. Levine is a Judge of the Florida District Courts of Appeal, serving since 2009. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2009 · 17 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2009	Florida District Courts of Appeal	–	–

Education

New York University
University of Miami

Judicial Record

In our data, Levine authored 208 published opinions for the court (2009–2019), plus 7 dissents and 9 concurrences. Most cited: Charles v. State (29 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. 181 of these were attributed to Levine 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
2016	Charles v. State· Concurrence†	204 So. 3d 63	29
2012	Stark v. State Farm Florida Insurance Co.†	95 So. 3d 285	25
2010	Sunshine State Insurance Co. v. Corridori	28 So. 3d 129	22
2009	Raphael v. Shecter	18 So. 3d 1152	20
2013	Allstate Insurance Co. v. Marotta†	125 So. 3d 956	18
2010	Lizio v. McCullom	36 So. 3d 927	18
2011	State v. Valera†	75 So. 3d 330	17
2011	Lucas v. State†	67 So. 3d 332	16
2016	Thomas Petrovsky a/k/a Thomas J. Petrovsky and Nancy Petrovsky a/k/a Nancy R. Petrovsky v. HSBC Bank, USA, etc.†	185 So. 3d 700	15
2013	Zvida v. Zvida†	103 So. 3d 1052	15
2015	Orthopedic Specialists, as Assignee of Kelli Serridge v. Allstate Insurance Company· Concurrence†	177 So. 3d 19	14
2014	Browne v. State†	132 So. 3d 312	14
2011	R.H. v. State†	56 So. 3d 156	14
2010	Schuman v. INTERNATIONAL CONSUMER CORP.	50 So. 3d 75	14
2009	Grier v. State	27 So. 3d 97	14

Showing the 15 most-cited of 224 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 Spencer D. Levine on?: Spencer D. Levine is a Judge of the Florida District Courts of Appeal.

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17 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).