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 1965 / Served to 1984

T Frank Hobson Jr.

Judge, Florida District Courts of Appeal

T Frank Hobson Jr. was a Judge of the Florida District Courts of Appeal, who joined the court in 1965. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1965–1984 · 19 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1965	Florida District Courts of Appeal	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Hobson authored 648 published opinions for the court (1963–1984), plus 8 dissents and 2 concurrences. Most cited: Agrico Chem. Co. v. DEPARTMENT, ETC. (77 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. 354 of these were attributed to Hobson 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
1981	Agrico Chem. Co. v. DEPARTMENT, ETC.	406 So. 2d 478	77
1975	Hutchinson v. State	315 So. 2d 546	58
1975	Matthews v. Williford	318 So. 2d 480	48
1980	First Federal Savings & Loan Ass'n v. Lockwood†	385 So. 2d 156	42
1975	Taylor v. State	319 So. 2d 114	42
1979	Gillman v. State	373 So. 2d 935	41
1980	Pack v. State	381 So. 2d 1199	38
1980	Kelly v. State	389 So. 2d 250	31
1968	Meakin v. Dreier	209 So. 2d 252	31
1966	Talavera v. State	186 So. 2d 811	31
1970	Harmon v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Ins. Co.	232 So. 2d 206	28
1980	Zambito v. Southland Recreation Enterprises	383 So. 2d 989	27
1973	Whitehead v. State	279 So. 2d 99	26
1970	Jimmy Hall's Morningside v. Blackburn & Peck Enter.	235 So. 2d 344	26
1978	Brown v. State	358 So. 2d 596	25

Showing the 15 most-cited of 660 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 T Frank Hobson Jr. on?: T Frank Hobson Jr. was a Judge of the Florida District Courts of Appeal.

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19 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).