How do judges of the Supreme Court of Florida reach the bench?

The court's current selection method is merit selection with retention.

Supreme Court of Florida / Joined 1851 / Served to 1853

Walker Anderson

Justice, Supreme Court of Florida

Walker Anderson was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Florida, who joined the court in 1851. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1801 · age 225
Tenure: 1851–1853 · 2 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1851	Supreme Court of Florida	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Anderson authored 12 published opinions for the court (1851–1975). Most cited: All Florida Surety Company v. Coker (40 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. 10 of these were attributed to Anderson 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
1956	All Florida Surety Company v. Coker	88 So. 2d 508	40
1851	Gibson v. Love†	4 Fla. 217	26
1853	McKay v. Lane†	5 Fla. 268	23
1853	Barber v. State†	5 Fla. 199	22
1852	Higgs v. Shehee†	4 Fla. 382	14
1851	Megin v. Filor†	4 Fla. 203	12
1851	Gregory v. Harrison†	4 Fla. 56	6
1851	Mitchell v. President of the St. Andrew's Bay Land Co.†	4 Fla. 200	6
1975	State v. Hill	313 So. 2d 766	5
1852	Kent v. Lyon†	4 Fla. 474	2
1852	Morse v. Garrason†	4 Fla. 460	1
1853	Carter v. Bennett†	5 Fla. 92	0

Showing the 12 most-cited of 12 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 Supreme Court of Florida reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is merit selection with retention.
Which court was Walker Anderson on?: Walker Anderson was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Florida.

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2 years on the Supreme Court of Florida. Data as of 2026-03-31. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).