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 1977 / Served to 1985

T Truett Ott

Judge, Florida District Courts of Appeal

T Truett Ott was a Judge of the Florida District Courts of Appeal, who joined the court in 1977. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1920–2005
Tenure: 1977–1985 · 8 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1977	Florida District Courts of Appeal	–	–

Education

University of Florida
University of Florida

Judicial Record

In our data, Ott authored 401 published opinions for the court (1977–1985), plus 4 dissents and 2 concurrences. Most cited: Smith v. State (52 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. 191 of these were attributed to Ott 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
1984	Smith v. State	454 So. 2d 90	52
1980	Hunt v. First Nat. Bank of Tampa	381 So. 2d 1194	47
1979	Daudt v. State	368 So. 2d 52	38
1985	Parker v. State	478 So. 2d 823	36
1977	Garcia Ins. Agency, Inc. v. Diaz	351 So. 2d 1137	36
1979	Auto-Owners Ins. Co. v. Eddinger	366 So. 2d 123	35
1981	Saul v. Basse	399 So. 2d 130	32
1984	Brady v. State	457 So. 2d 544	28
1984	Green v. State	455 So. 2d 586	28
1981	Lewis v. Evans	406 So. 2d 489	28
1977	Gasparino v. Murphy	352 So. 2d 933	28
1982	Hillman v. State	410 So. 2d 180	26
1983	Neumann v. Davis Water and Waste, Inc.	433 So. 2d 559	25
1977	Brown v. State	344 So. 2d 641	25
1981	Tri Star Investments, Inc. v. Miele	407 So. 2d 292	24

Showing the 15 most-cited of 407 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 Truett Ott on?: T Truett Ott was a Judge of the Florida District Courts of Appeal.

Sources

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8 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).