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

The court's current selection method is partisan election.

Texas Court of Criminal Appeals / Joined 2015 / Active

Bert Richardson

Judge, Texas Court of Criminal Appeals

Bert Richardson is a Judge of the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, serving since 2015. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2015 · 11 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2015	Texas Court of Criminal Appeals	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Richardson authored 31 published opinions for the court (2015–2018), plus 4 dissents and 10 concurrences. Most cited: Jenkins v. State (377 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. 45 of these were attributed to Richardson 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
2016	Jenkins v. State†	493 S.W.3d 583	377
2016	Johnson v. State†	490 S.W.3d 895	321
2016	Balderas v. State· Concurrence†	517 S.W.3d 756	297
2016	Buntion v. State†	482 S.W.3d 58	191
2016	Thomas v. State†	505 S.W.3d 916	187
2015	Peraza v. State†	467 S.W.3d 508	161
2015	Cortez, Damien Hernandez· Concurrence†	469 S.W.3d 593	157
2018	Fowler v. State†	544 S.W.3d 844	139
2016	Morgan v. State†	501 S.W.3d 84	138
2016	State v. Hill†	499 S.W.3d 853	126
2015	Tapia, Gilbert Jr.†	462 S.W.3d 29	113
2016	Elizondo, Jose Guadalupe Rodriguez†	487 S.W.3d 185	97
2017	Gamino, Cesar Alejandro†	537 S.W.3d 507	96
2016	Leming v. State· Concurrence†	493 S.W.3d 552	83
2015	Green v. State· Dissent†	476 S.W.3d 440	76

Showing the 15 most-cited of 45 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 Texas Court of Criminal Appeals reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is partisan election.
Which court is Bert Richardson on?: Bert Richardson is a Judge of the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals.

Sources

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11 years on the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals. Data as of 2026-07-02. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).