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The court's current selection method is partisan election.

Court of Appeals of Texas / Joined 1995 / Active

Ann Crawford McClure

Justice, Court of Appeals of Texas

Ann Crawford McClure is a Justice of the Court of Appeals of Texas, serving since 1995. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 1995 · 31 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1995	Court of Appeals of Texas	–	–

Education

Texas Christian University

Judicial Record

In our data, McClure authored 838 published opinions for the court (1995–2019), plus 1 dissent and 7 concurrences. Most cited: Arzaga v. State (239 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. 617 of these were attributed to McClure 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
2002	Arzaga v. State†	86 S.W.3d 767	239
1998	Lindsey v. Lindsey†	965 S.W.2d 589	215
2000	Doyle v. Texas Department of Protective & Regulatory Services	16 S.W.3d 390	177
2000	Abraxas Petroleum Corp. v. Hornburg†	20 S.W.3d 741	177
2000	City of Midland v. Sullivan†	33 S.W.3d 1	163
1999	In the Interest of De La Pena†	999 S.W.2d 521	162
1996	Duran v. Furr's Supermarkets, Inc.	921 S.W.2d 778	160
2000	Tate v. Tate†	55 S.W.3d 1	155
2002	Bates v. Tesar	81 S.W.3d 411	150
1998	In the Interest of Shaw†	966 S.W.2d 174	142
2015	in the Interest of B. C. S., a Child†	479 S.W.3d 918	138
1999	Chandler v. Chandler†	991 S.W.2d 367	137
1997	Calderon v. State	950 S.W.2d 121	128
2000	Green v. Texas Department of Protective & Regulatory Services	25 S.W.3d 213	124
2000	Becker v. State†	33 S.W.3d 64	122

Showing the 15 most-cited of 846 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 is Ann Crawford McClure on?: Ann Crawford McClure is a Justice of the Court of Appeals of Texas.

Sources

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31 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).