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 1980 / Served to 1993

Wilkie D. Ferguson Jr.

Judge, Florida District Courts of Appeal

Wilkie D. Ferguson Jr. was a Judge of the Florida District Courts of Appeal (102 judges, selected by merit selection with retention), who joined the court in 1980. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1938–2003
Tenure: 1980–1993 · 13 yrs
Education: Florida Agricultural and Mechanical 1960

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1980	Florida District Courts of Appeal	–	–

Education

Howard University
Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University	B.S.	1960

Judicial Record

In our data, Ferguson authored 188 published opinions for the court (1981–1993), plus 54 dissents and 45 concurrences. Most cited: State v. C.C. (36 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. 288 of these were attributed to Ferguson 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
1983	State v. C.C.· Dissent†	449 So. 2d 280	36
1981	G. C. v. State†	407 So. 2d 639	29
1984	Ashby Division of Consolidated Aluminum Corp. v. Dobkin†	458 So. 2d 335	25
1982	M.R.R. v. State†	411 So. 2d 983	18
1984	Drake ex rel. Fletcher v. Island Community Church, Inc.†	462 So. 2d 1142	17
1986	Bertoglio v. American Savings & Loan Ass'n of Florida†	491 So. 2d 1216	15
1993	S.D. v. State†	627 So. 2d 1261	13
1984	R.D.S. v. State†	446 So. 2d 1181	12
1982	I.O. v. State†	412 So. 2d 42	10
1981	D. C. v. State†	400 So. 2d 825	9
1983	B.L. v. State· Concurrence†	425 So. 2d 1178	8
1986	R.V. v. State†	497 So. 2d 912	7
1983	C.N. v. State†	433 So. 2d 661	6
1993	Gonzalez v. Metropolitan Dade County Public Health Trust†	626 So. 2d 1030	5
1992	Jones v. State· Dissent†	599 So. 2d 741	5

Showing the 15 most-cited of 288 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 Wilkie D. Ferguson Jr. on?: Wilkie D. Ferguson Jr. was a Judge of the Florida District Courts of Appeal.

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13 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).