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 1966 / Served to 1981

Woodie Liles

Judge, Florida District Courts of Appeal

Woodie Liles was a Judge of the Florida District Courts of Appeal, who joined the court in 1966. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1966–1981 · 15 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1966	Florida District Courts of Appeal	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Liles authored 332 published opinions for the court (1965–1981), plus 6 dissents and 1 concurrence. Most cited: Times Publishing Company v. Williams (168 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. 214 of these were attributed to Liles 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
1969	Times Publishing Company v. Williams	222 So. 2d 470	168
1981	From v. Tallahassee Democrat, Inc.	400 So. 2d 52	74
1968	Coppolino v. State	223 So. 2d 68	59
1967	Fireman's Fund Insurance Company v. Vogel	195 So. 2d 20	50
1972	Rehurek v. Chrysler Credit Corporation	262 So. 2d 452	47
1966	State v. Davis	188 So. 2d 24	46
1973	Turk v. St. Petersburg Bank and Trust Company	281 So. 2d 534	40
1966	Pinellas County v. Woolley	189 So. 2d 217	35
1981	Whitehead v. Linkous	404 So. 2d 377	32
1972	Rankin v. Rankin	258 So. 2d 489	32
1972	H & L LAND COMPANY v. Warner	258 So. 2d 293	31
1973	Davis v. State	277 So. 2d 300	28
1980	Melvin v. Melvin	391 So. 2d 691	27
1973	Ray v. Earl	277 So. 2d 73	27
1968	Investment Corporation of Florida v. Buchman	208 So. 2d 291	27

Showing the 15 most-cited of 339 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 Woodie Liles on?: Woodie Liles was a Judge of the Florida District Courts of Appeal.

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15 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).