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 2012 / Active

Wendy Berger

Judge, Florida District Courts of Appeal

Wendy Berger is a Judge of the Florida District Courts of Appeal (102 judges, selected by merit selection with retention), serving since 2012. She previously served on the Circuit Court of the 7th Judicial Circuit of Florida. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2012 · 14 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2012	Florida District Courts of Appeal	–	–
2005	Circuit Court of the 7th Judicial Circuit of Florida	–	–
2012	Florida District Courts of Appeal	–	–

Education

Florida State University
Florida State University

Judicial Record

In our data, Berger authored 71 published opinions for the court (2012–2019), plus 8 dissents and 15 concurrences. Most cited: Haynes v. State (55 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. 94 of these were attributed to Berger 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
2013	Haynes v. State†	106 So. 3d 481	55
2013	Bacchus v. Bacchus†	108 So. 3d 712	35
2012	Allstate Floridian Insurance Co. v. Farmer· Dissent†	104 So. 3d 1242	28
2015	Nationstar Mortgage, LLC v. Berdecia†	169 So. 3d 209	27
2017	Robert L. Rumph v. State†	217 So. 3d 1092	22
2016	Peterson v. State· Concurrence†	193 So. 3d 1034	13
2014	Crew v. State· Concurrence†	146 So. 3d 101	12
2014	Burt v. Hudson & Keyse, LLC†	138 So. 3d 1193	12
2015	Ciprian-Escapa v. City of Orlando†	172 So. 3d 485	10
2013	Spurgeon v. State†	114 So. 3d 1042	10
2019	Gold Crown Resort Mktg. Inc. v. Phillpotts†	272 So. 3d 789	9
2015	Volusia County v. Joynt†	179 So. 3d 448	9
2015	Daniel v. Morris†	181 So. 3d 1195	7
2014	Patel v. State†	141 So. 3d 1239	7
2014	Puglisi v. Puglisi†	135 So. 3d 1146	7

Showing the 15 most-cited of 94 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 is Wendy Berger on?: Wendy Berger is a Judge of the Florida District Courts of Appeal.

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14 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).