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The court's current selection method is partisan election.

Court of Appeals of Texas / Joined 2003 / Active

Bob Pemberton

Justice, Court of Appeals of Texas

Bob Pemberton is a Justice of the Court of Appeals of Texas, serving since 2003. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2003 · 23 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2003	Court of Appeals of Texas	–	–

Education

Harvard University

Judicial Record

In our data, Pemberton authored 265 published opinions for the court (2004–2018), plus 4 dissents and 17 concurrences. Most cited: Taylor v. Texas Department of Protective & Regulatory Services (463 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. 213 of these were attributed to Pemberton 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
2005	Taylor v. Texas Department of Protective & Regulatory Services	160 S.W.3d 641	463
2006	Zeifman v. Michels· Concurrence†	212 S.W.3d 582	348
2015	Mary Louise Serafine v. Alexander Blunt and Ashley Blunt· Concurrence†	466 S.W.3d 352	202
2010	Creedmoor-Maha Water Supply Corp. v. Texas Commission on Environmental Quality†	307 S.W.3d 505	191
2007	Texas Disposal Systems Landfill, Inc. v. Waste Management Holdings, Inc.	219 S.W.3d 563	178
2004	Petco Animal Supplies, Inc. v. Schuster†	144 S.W.3d 554	170
2007	Hendee v. Dewhurst†	228 S.W.3d 354	156
2008	Allen v. State	249 S.W.3d 680	148
2008	Figueroa v. State†	250 S.W.3d 490	126
2006	Herrera v. Seton Northwest Hospital†	212 S.W.3d 452	122
2013	Bill Boyd Kuhn v. State†	393 S.W.3d 519	121
2005	Leonard v. Abbott	171 S.W.3d 451	121
2004	Trilogy Software, Inc. v. Callidus Software, Inc.	143 S.W.3d 452	118
2009	Beck v. LAW OFFICES OF EDWIN J. TERRY, JR.†	284 S.W.3d 416	115
2007	Texas Logos, L.P. v. Texas Department of Transportation†	241 S.W.3d 105	113

Showing the 15 most-cited of 286 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 Bob Pemberton on?: Bob Pemberton is a Justice of the Court of Appeals of Texas.

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23 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).