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 1957 / Served to 1980

Tillman Pearson

Judge, Florida District Courts of Appeal

Tillman Pearson was a Judge of the Florida District Courts of Appeal, who joined the court in 1957. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1913–2006
Tenure: 1957–1980 · 23 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1957	Florida District Courts of Appeal	–	–

Education

University of Florida
University of Florida

Judicial Record

In our data, Pearson authored 708 published opinions for the court (1957–1979), plus 91 dissents and 50 concurrences. Most cited: City of Miami v. Albro (51 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. 755 of these were attributed to Pearson 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
1960	City of Miami v. Albro	120 So. 2d 23	51
1957	Pan American World Airways v. Gregory	96 So. 2d 669	47
1958	Greene v. Hoiriis	103 So. 2d 226	42
1958	Smith v. Poston Equipment Rentals	105 So. 2d 578	35
1960	Lieberbaum v. Surfcomber Hotel Corp.	122 So. 2d 28	31
1960	Latta v. Latta	121 So. 2d 42	28
1960	White v. Spears	123 So. 2d 689	26
1959	Folmar v. Davis	108 So. 2d 772	24
1960	Orkin Exterminating Co. of So. Fla., Inc. v. Truly Nolen, Inc.	117 So. 2d 419	23
1959	Keith v. Culp	111 So. 2d 278	23
1958	Greenwald v. Food Fair Stores Corporation	100 So. 2d 200	23
1979	K. W. U. v. State†	367 So. 2d 647	22
1960	Holzapfel v. State	120 So. 2d 195	22
1958	Saunders v. Kaplan	101 So. 2d 181	22
1959	Bell v. Bell	112 So. 2d 63	21

Showing the 15 most-cited of 849 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 Tillman Pearson on?: Tillman Pearson was a Judge of the Florida District Courts of Appeal.

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23 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).