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 2006 / Active

Brian Hoyle

Justice, Court of Appeals of Texas

Brian Hoyle is a Justice of the Court of Appeals of Texas, serving since 2006. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2006 · 20 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2006	Court of Appeals of Texas	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Hoyle authored 37 published opinions for the court (2007–2018), plus 2 dissents and 2 concurrences. Most cited: Denetrius Miller Johnson v. State (107 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. 39 of these were attributed to Hoyle 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
2013	Denetrius Miller Johnson v. State†	405 S.W.3d 350	107
2009	In Re Estate of Tyner	292 S.W.3d 179	51
2007	Pierce v. Washington Mutual Bank· Dissent†	226 S.W.3d 711	48
2012	In re Reynolds†	369 S.W.3d 638	44
2015	Cesar Gomez v. State†	459 S.W.3d 651	41
2010	Thedford Crossing, L.P. v. Tyler Rose Nursery, Inc.†	306 S.W.3d 860	29
2014	In re Cauley†	437 S.W.3d 650	16
2015	Valerus Compression Services v. Gregg County Appraisal District†	457 S.W.3d 520	15
2014	East Texas Medical Center Regional Health Care System v. Reddic†	426 S.W.3d 343	15
2008	Avila v. State†	252 S.W.3d 632	14
2012	Hotze v. Miller†	361 S.W.3d 707	12
2011	City of Athens, Texas v. James MacAvoy†	353 S.W.3d 905	12
2016	MJS & Associates, L.L.C. v. Master†	501 S.W.3d 751	11
2007	Clewis v. State†	222 S.W.3d 460	11
2012	Mathis v. Barnes†	377 S.W.3d 926	10

Showing the 15 most-cited of 41 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 Brian Hoyle on?: Brian Hoyle is a Justice of the Court of Appeals of Texas.

Sources

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20 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).