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 1997 / Active

Stevan T. Northcutt

Judge, Florida District Courts of Appeal

Stevan T. Northcutt is a Judge of the Florida District Courts of Appeal, serving since 1997. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1954 · age 72
Tenure: Since 1997 · 29 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1997	Florida District Courts of Appeal	–	–

Education

Florida State University

Judicial Record

In our data, Northcutt authored 981 published opinions for the court (1997–2019), plus 7 dissents and 16 concurrences. Most cited: Taylor v. State (189 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. 527 of these were attributed to Northcutt 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
2002	Taylor v. State	818 So. 2d 544	189
2003	Green v. State	839 So. 2d 748	76
1998	Heggs v. State	718 So. 2d 263	61
1997	Stephens v. Geoghegan	702 So. 2d 517	61
1999	Bain v. State	730 So. 2d 296	56
2004	Orkin Exterminating Co., Inc. v. Petsch	872 So. 2d 259	54
2013	Little v. State· Concurrence†	111 So. 3d 214	44
1997	Ritter v. Ritter	690 So. 2d 1372	42
2009	Bracero v. State	10 So. 3d 664	40
2003	Matheson v. State	870 So. 2d 8	35
2001	Kelley v. Rice	800 So. 2d 247	31
2002	Jackson v. State	818 So. 2d 539	30
1998	I.A. v. H.H.†	710 So. 2d 162	30
2002	Watson Clinic, LLP v. Verzosa	816 So. 2d 832	28
2000	Huntington Nat. Bank v. Merrill Lynch	779 So. 2d 396	28

Showing the 15 most-cited of 1,004 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 Stevan T. Northcutt on?: Stevan T. Northcutt is a Judge of the Florida District Courts of Appeal.

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29 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).