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 1979 / Served to 2003

Warren Cobb

Judge, Florida District Courts of Appeal

Warren Cobb was a Judge of the Florida District Courts of Appeal, who joined the court in 1979. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1932 · age 94
Tenure: 1979–2003 · 24 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1979	Florida District Courts of Appeal	–	–

Education

Florida State University
University of Florida

Judicial Record

In our data, Cobb authored 1,433 published opinions for the court (1976–2009), plus 32 dissents and 38 concurrences. Most cited: King v. State (102 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 Cobb 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
1990	King v. State	557 So. 2d 899	102
1999	Speed v. State	732 So. 2d 17	71
1980	Pittman v. Volusia County	380 So. 2d 1192	66
1980	Food Fair, Inc. v. Anderson	382 So. 2d 150	55
1981	American Motors Corp. v. Ellis	403 So. 2d 459	51
1981	Van Bever v. State	405 So. 2d 474	50
1997	Terminix Intern. Co., LP v. Ponzio	693 So. 2d 104	48
1993	B.H. v. State†	622 So. 2d 615	44
1982	Baker v. State	425 So. 2d 36	44
1983	Boyles v. Mid-Florida Television Corp.	431 So. 2d 627	42
1984	Hendrix v. State	455 So. 2d 449	39
1980	Harkins v. State	380 So. 2d 524	37
1988	Wright v. State	519 So. 2d 1157	35
1985	Vandeneynden v. State	478 So. 2d 429	35
1984	Dunn v. State	454 So. 2d 641	34

Showing the 15 most-cited of 1,511 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 Warren Cobb on?: Warren Cobb was a Judge of the Florida District Courts of Appeal.

Sources

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24 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).