How do judges of the Court of Appeals of Texas reach the bench?

The court's current selection method is partisan election.

Court of Appeals of Texas / Joined 2005 / Served to 2010

Alan Waldrop

Justice, Court of Appeals of Texas

Alan Waldrop was a Justice of the Court of Appeals of Texas, who joined the court in 2005. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 2005–2010 · 5 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2005	Court of Appeals of Texas	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Waldrop authored 91 published opinions for the court (2006–2010), plus 8 dissents and 3 concurrences. Most cited: Austin Heart, P.A. v. Webb (195 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. 102 of these were attributed to Waldrop 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
2007	Austin Heart, P.A. v. Webb†	228 S.W.3d 276	195
2010	Save Our Springs Alliance, Inc. v. City of Dripping Springs†	304 S.W.3d 871	111
2007	Pickett v. Texas Mutual Insurance Co.†	239 S.W.3d 826	96
2008	Robson v. Gilbreath†	267 S.W.3d 401	74
2007	Texas Parks & Wildlife Department v. Dearing· Concurrence†	240 S.W.3d 330	67
2010	Hayes v. Carroll†	314 S.W.3d 494	66
2006	In Re Hewlett Packard†	212 S.W.3d 356	63
2008	Koch v. TEXAS GENERAL LAND OFFICE†	273 S.W.3d 451	60
2010	Zeifman v. Nowlin†	322 S.W.3d 804	50
2008	Consolidated Reinforcement, L.P. v. Carothers Executive Homes, Ltd.· Dissent†	271 S.W.3d 887	49
2010	Combs v. City of Webster†	311 S.W.3d 85	45
2008	Merit Management Partners I, L.P. v. Noelke†	266 S.W.3d 637	45
2009	Coastal Habitat Alliance v. Public Utility Commission†	294 S.W.3d 276	43
2010	Stephens v. LPP MORTGAGE, LTD.†	316 S.W.3d 742	41
2006	Centerpoint Energy Entex v. Railroad Commission of Texas†	213 S.W.3d 364	41

Showing the 15 most-cited of 102 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 Court of Appeals of Texas reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is partisan election.
Which court was Alan Waldrop on?: Alan Waldrop was a Justice of the Court of Appeals of Texas.

Sources

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5 years on the Court of Appeals of Texas. Data as of 2026-03-31. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).