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 2008 / Active

Bill Meier

Justice, Court of Appeals of Texas

Bill Meier is a Justice of the Court of Appeals of Texas, serving since 2008. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2008 · 18 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2008	Court of Appeals of Texas	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Meier authored 65 published opinions for the court (2009–2018), plus 6 dissents and 3 concurrences. Most cited: Russell v. State (64 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. 72 of these were attributed to Meier 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
2011	Russell v. State†	341 S.W.3d 526	64
2011	Laboriel-Guity v. State†	336 S.W.3d 754	59
2011	Alami v. State†	333 S.W.3d 881	51
2011	James v. State†	335 S.W.3d 719	47
2012	H.E.B., L.L.C. v. Horace T. Ardinger, Jr. and Westland Capitol Inc.†	369 S.W.3d 496	45
2012	Oswaldo Javier Reyes v. State†	361 S.W.3d 222	43
2012	Aimee Delyn Halleman v. Edward Charles Halleman†	379 S.W.3d 443	36
2012	Mark Fleming v. State†	376 S.W.3d 854	32
2013	in the Interest of D.R.J. and T.F.J., Children†	395 S.W.3d 316	29
2014	Derek Wryan Wilson v. State· Concurrence†	442 S.W.3d 779	28
2011	Sanders v. State†	346 S.W.3d 26	26
2017	in Re: The Commitment of Charles Ray Dever†	521 S.W.3d 84	23
2011	TTHR, L.P. v. Coffman· Dissent†	338 S.W.3d 103	23
2009	Dingler v. Tucker†	301 S.W.3d 761	22
2016	Josh and Kelli Savering, Chattanya Chavda, Pannaben Nancha, Phillip and Lisa Klotz, Paul Arseneau, Allison Blackstein, and Jack A. Muhlbeier v. City of Mansfield†	505 S.W.3d 33	21

Showing the 15 most-cited of 74 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 Bill Meier on?: Bill Meier is a Justice of the Court of Appeals of Texas.

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18 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).