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 1999 / Served to 2009

Thomas E. Stringer Sr.

Judge, Florida District Courts of Appeal

Thomas E. Stringer Sr. was a Judge of the Florida District Courts of Appeal, who joined the court in 1999. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1999–2009 · 10 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1999	Florida District Courts of Appeal	–	–

Education

Stetson University

Judicial Record

In our data, Stringer authored 471 published opinions for the court (1999–2009), plus 2 concurrences. Most cited: Roth v. Roth (58 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 Stringer 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
2008	Roth v. Roth	973 So. 2d 580	58
2006	M.W.G. v. State†	945 So. 2d 597	39
2001	Gandy v. Trans World Computer Tech. Group	787 So. 2d 116	38
2007	HILLTOPPER HOLDING v. Estate of Cutchin	955 So. 2d 598	37
2006	Kel Homes, LLC v. Burris	933 So. 2d 699	33
2007	Hall v. State	951 So. 2d 91	32
2002	Stansel v. State	825 So. 2d 1007	29
2008	Davis v. State	973 So. 2d 1277	26
2004	Guida v. Guida	870 So. 2d 222	23
2007	In Re Commitment of Reilly	970 So. 2d 453	22
2005	Cabrera v. State	890 So. 2d 506	22
2007	Vollmer v. Key Development Properties, Inc.	966 So. 2d 1022	21
2004	Maybin v. State	884 So. 2d 1174	21
2008	Malarkey v. State	975 So. 2d 538	20
2006	Baron v. Baron	941 So. 2d 1233	19

Showing the 15 most-cited of 473 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 E. Stringer Sr. on?: Thomas E. Stringer Sr. was a Judge of the Florida District Courts of Appeal.

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10 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).