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 1985 / Served to 1994

Vincent Thomas Hall

Judge, Florida District Courts of Appeal

Vincent Thomas Hall was a Judge of the Florida District Courts of Appeal, who joined the court in 1985. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1985–1994 · 9 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1985	Florida District Courts of Appeal	–	–

Education

Duke University
University of Miami

Judicial Record

In our data, Hall authored 400 published opinions for the court (1961–1996), plus 5 dissents and 4 concurrences. Most cited: Carter v. State (49 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. 281 of these were attributed to Hall 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
1985	Carter v. State	469 So. 2d 194	49
1993	Baggett v. Electricians Local 915 Credit Union	620 So. 2d 784	46
1990	Williams v. State	559 So. 2d 680	33
1986	Tompkins v. State	483 So. 2d 115	29
1986	Boyle v. Boyle	485 So. 2d 879	25
1986	Southern Roadbuilders v. LEE CTY.	495 So. 2d 189	20
1986	Florida Power Corp. v. Barron	481 So. 2d 1309	17
1985	Ochoa v. State	476 So. 2d 1348	17
1961	Cohen v. Rothman	127 So. 2d 143	17
1987	Shields v. Shields	502 So. 2d 1349	16
1985	Irwin v. State	479 So. 2d 153	16
1991	State v. Allen	573 So. 2d 170	15
1986	Fuller v. State	488 So. 2d 594	15
1993	State v. Moore	619 So. 2d 376	14
1992	R.G.S. v. State†	597 So. 2d 816	14

Showing the 15 most-cited of 409 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 Vincent Thomas Hall on?: Vincent Thomas Hall was a Judge of the Florida District Courts of Appeal.

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9 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).