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 1961 / Served to 1996

Thomas H. Barkdull Jr.

Judge, Florida District Courts of Appeal

Thomas H. Barkdull Jr. was a Judge of the Florida District Courts of Appeal, who joined the court in 1961. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1925–2000
Tenure: 1961–1996 · 35 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1961	Florida District Courts of Appeal	–	–

Education

University of Florida
University of Florida

Judicial Record

In our data, Barkdull authored 385 published opinions for the court (1961–2000), plus 50 dissents and 24 concurrences. Most cited: TIE COMMUNICATIONS v. Toyota Motors (34 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. 422 of these were attributed to Barkdull 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
1980	TIE COMMUNICATIONS v. Toyota Motors	391 So. 2d 697	34
1991	Jennings v. Dade County	589 So. 2d 1337	29
1987	Valsecchi v. Proprietors Ins. Co.	502 So. 2d 1310	24
1963	Phoenix Assurance Company of New York v. Merritt	160 So. 2d 552	20
1980	Dudas v. Dade County	385 So. 2d 1144	18
1984	Drake ex rel. Fletcher v. Island Community Church, Inc.· Dissent†	462 So. 2d 1142	17
1980	Glatstein v. City of Miami	391 So. 2d 297	17
1966	Walden v. State	191 So. 2d 68	15
1989	Miami Dolphins, Ltd. v. GENDEN & BACH, PA	545 So. 2d 294	12
1980	Travelers Indem. Co. v. Morris	390 So. 2d 464	11
1972	Seaboard Coast Line Railroad v. McKelvey†	259 So. 2d 777	11
1968	City of Miami Beach v. Sunset Islands 3 & 4 Property Owners Ass'n†	216 So. 2d 509	11
1964	White v. Exchange Corp.†	167 So. 2d 324	11
1993	Gomez v. State	621 So. 2d 578	10
1976	B. A. A. v. State†	333 So. 2d 552	10

Showing the 15 most-cited of 459 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 Thomas H. Barkdull Jr. on?: Thomas H. Barkdull Jr. was a Judge of the Florida District Courts of Appeal.

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35 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).