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 1964 / Served to 1976

Thomas Lee

Judge, Florida District Courts of Appeal

Thomas Lee was a Judge of the Florida District Courts of Appeal, who joined the court in 1964. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1964–1976 · 12 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1964	Florida District Courts of Appeal	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Lee authored 17 published opinions for the court (1974–1990). Most cited: Castle v. State (50 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. 1 of these was attributed to Lee 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
1974	Castle v. State	305 So. 2d 794	50
1975	Florida Beverage Corporation, Inc. v. Wynne	306 So. 2d 200	25
1990	State Farm Fire and Cas. Co. v. Ray	556 So. 2d 811	22
1984	Marshall v. Marshall	445 So. 2d 706	12
1976	Reeder v. Edward M. Chadbourne, Inc.	338 So. 2d 271	12
1986	Ryals v. State	498 So. 2d 1365	9
1976	Dukes v. Dukes	346 So. 2d 544	9
1976	Hanks v. Hamilton	339 So. 2d 1122	8
1976	Hammock v. State	330 So. 2d 522	8
1976	Kersey v. City of Riviera Beach	337 So. 2d 995	7
1990	McCallum v. State	559 So. 2d 233	6
1988	Hartsfield v. Orlando Regional Med. Ctr.	522 So. 2d 66	6
1990	Pirino v. Pirino	558 So. 2d 171	4
1975	Scott v. Downey	314 So. 2d 16	4
1984	Parker v. State	446 So. 2d 250	3

Showing the 15 most-cited of 17 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 Lee on?: Thomas Lee was a Judge of the Florida District Courts of Appeal.

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12 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).