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 2006

Winifred Sharp

Judge, Florida District Courts of Appeal

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

Born: 1936 · age 90
Tenure: 1979–2006 · 27 yrs

Judicial service

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

Education

Vassar College
Stanford University

Judicial Record

In our data, Sharp authored 1,950 published opinions for the court (1979–2006), plus 142 dissents and 95 concurrences. Most cited: Isley v. State (269 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. 1,068 of these were attributed to Sharp 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
1995	Isley v. State	652 So. 2d 409	269
1984	Carter v. State	452 So. 2d 953	70
2002	Paul v. State	830 So. 2d 953	64
1999	A.G. v. State†	737 So. 2d 1244	63
1984	Wright v. Yurko	446 So. 2d 1162	60
1985	Nazareth v. Herndon Ambulance Serv.	467 So. 2d 1076	45
1993	B.H. v. State· Dissent†	622 So. 2d 615	44
2006	Walters v. Blankenship	931 So. 2d 137	41
2005	V.K.E. v. State· Concurrence†	902 So. 2d 343	41
1989	Palmer v. DEPT. OF HEALTH & REHAB. SERV.	547 So. 2d 981	40
1980	Hegler v. Hegler	383 So. 2d 1134	40
1982	Kelly v. Williams	411 So. 2d 902	37
1990	Orlando Regional Med. Ctr., Inc. v. Chmielewski	573 So. 2d 876	34
1989	Martinez v. State	549 So. 2d 694	33
1981	Skinner v. State	399 So. 2d 1064	33

Showing the 15 most-cited of 2,192 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 Winifred Sharp on?: Winifred Sharp was a Judge of the Florida District Courts of Appeal.

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27 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).