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

The court's current selection method is partisan election.

Supreme Court of Texas / Joined 1988 / Served to 1988

Barbara Culver

Justice, Supreme Court of Texas

Barbara Culver was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Texas, who joined the court in 1988. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1926 · age 100
Tenure: 1988–1988

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1988	Supreme Court of Texas	–	–

Education

Texas Tech University
Southern Methodist University

Judicial Record

In our data, Culver authored 1 published opinion for the court (1988), plus 5 dissents and 3 concurrences. Most cited: Herbert v. Herbert (486 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. 8 of these were attributed to Culver 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
1988	Herbert v. Herbert· Dissent†	754 S.W.2d 141	486
1988	Lucas v. United States· Concurrence†	757 S.W.2d 687	238
1988	Public Utility Com'n of Texas v. Cofer· Dissent†	754 S.W.2d 121	141
1988	Street v. Honorable Second Court of Appeals· Concurrence†	756 S.W.2d 299	94
1988	Ex Parte Calvillo Amaya· Concurrence†	748 S.W.2d 224	73
1988	Ex Parte Blasingame	748 S.W.2d 444	50
1988	State v. Preslar· Dissent†	751 S.W.2d 477	23
1988	Allee v. Benser· Dissent†	779 S.W.2d 61	14
1988	State Democratic Executive Committee v. Honorable Jack Rains· Dissent†	758 S.W.2d 227	5

Showing the 9 most-cited of 9 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 Barbara Culver on?: Barbara Culver was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Texas.

Sources

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Joined the court in 1988. Data as of 2026-03-31. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).