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The court's current selection method is partisan election.

Supreme Court of Texas / Joined 1999 / Served to 2000

Alberto R. Gonzales

Justice, Supreme Court of Texas

Alberto R. Gonzales was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Texas, who joined the court in 1999. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1955 · age 71
Tenure: 1999–2000 · 1 yr

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1999	Supreme Court of Texas	–	–

Education

Rice University
Harvard University

Judicial Record

In our data, Gonzales authored 13 published opinions for the court (1999–2000), plus 3 concurrences. Most cited: Fitzgerald v. Advanced Spine Fixation Systems, Inc. (1,058 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. 7 of these were attributed to Gonzales 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
1999	Fitzgerald v. Advanced Spine Fixation Systems, Inc.	996 S.W.2d 864	1,058
2000	Prudential Insurance Co. of America v. Financial Review Services, Inc.	29 S.W.3d 74	804
2000	Osterberg v. Peca· Concurrence†	12 S.W.3d 31	736
2000	Texas Department of Transportation v. Able	35 S.W.3d 608	578
2000	Lopez v. Muñoz, Hockema & Reed, L.L.P.· Concurrence†	22 S.W.3d 857	538
2000	City of Fort Worth v. Zimlich†	29 S.W.3d 62	403
2000	Southwestern Refining Co., Inc. v. Bernal	22 S.W.3d 425	339
2000	Gulf Insurance Co. v. Burns Motors, Inc.	22 S.W.3d 417	327
1999	General Motors Corp. v. Sanchez†	997 S.W.2d 584	263
2000	Golden Eagle Archery, Inc. v. Jackson	24 S.W.3d 362	247
1999	In Re Missouri Pacific Railroad Co.†	998 S.W.2d 212	242
2000	Pustejovsky v. Rapid-American Corp.	35 S.W.3d 643	208
1999	Mid-Century Insurance Co. of Texas v. Kidd†	997 S.W.2d 265	126
1999	Texas Farmers Insurance Co. v. Murphy	996 S.W.2d 873	108
2000	Mallios v. Baker	11 S.W.3d 157	33

Showing the 15 most-cited of 16 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 Supreme Court of Texas reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is partisan election.
Which court was Alberto R. Gonzales on?: Alberto R. Gonzales was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Texas.

Sources

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