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 1990

Winifred L. Wentworth

Judge, Florida District Courts of Appeal

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

Lived: 1927–2018
Tenure: 1979–1990 · 11 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, Wentworth authored 794 published opinions for the court (1979–1995), plus 31 dissents and 36 concurrences. Most cited: City of Clermont v. Rumph (58 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. 495 of these were attributed to Wentworth 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
1984	City of Clermont v. Rumph	450 So. 2d 573	58
1982	Bergen Brunswig Corp. v. STATE, ETC.	415 So. 2d 765	49
1985	Burch v. State	462 So. 2d 548	41
1984	Manning v. State	452 So. 2d 136	34
1987	Collinsworth v. O'CONNELL	508 So. 2d 744	32
1980	Friend v. State	385 So. 2d 696	24
1988	Wade v. Wade	536 So. 2d 1158	23
1980	Jefferson Stores, Inc. v. Rosenfeld	386 So. 2d 865	23
1984	HS Camp & Sons v. Flynn	450 So. 2d 577	22
1983	Red Carpet Corp. v. Roberts	443 So. 2d 377	22
1980	Myers v. Carr Const. Co.	387 So. 2d 417	22
1990	Bradford v. State	567 So. 2d 911	21
1984	Johnson v. State	462 So. 2d 49	21
1984	Stahl v. Southeastern X-Ray	447 So. 2d 399	21
1989	Abbott v. State	543 So. 2d 411	20

Showing the 15 most-cited of 861 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 L. Wentworth on?: Winifred L. Wentworth was a Judge of the Florida District Courts of Appeal.

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11 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).