Judge David M. Gersten is currently chief judge on the Third District Court of Appeal, where he was appointed in 1989. Prior to his appointment, he was in private practice from 1975 until 1980. He was elected to the Dade County Court in 1980 and elected to the Eleventh Judicial Circuit in 1982. In 1995, he was appointed as Associate Dean, Appellate Division, at the Florida College of Advanced Judicial Studies, and became a member of the Florida Court Education Council in 1996. He is the author for the Florida Civil Practice Guide, a multi volume set published by LexisNexis/Matthew Bender, and he is a judicial consultant for LexisNexis Practice Guide: Florida Pretrial Civil Procedure.