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 1994 / Served to 2014

Catherine M. Stone

Justice, Court of Appeals of Texas

Catherine M. Stone was a Justice of the Court of Appeals of Texas, who joined the court in 1994. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1994–2014 · 20 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1994	Court of Appeals of Texas	–	–

Education

Assumption College

Judicial Record

In our data, Stone authored 728 published opinions for the court (1911–2014), plus 9 dissents and 12 concurrences. Most cited: In the Interest of S.D. (380 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. 228 of these were attributed to Stone 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
1998	In the Interest of S.D.	980 S.W.2d 758	380
2000	in the Interest of S.F., a Child· Concurrence†	32 S.W.3d 318	217
2001	Dormady v. Dinero Land & Cattle Co., LC	61 S.W.3d 555	165
1999	Shull v. United Parcel Service†	4 S.W.3d 46	157
1996	Pitman v. Lightfoot	937 S.W.2d 496	142
2000	Well Solutions, Inc. v. Stafford	32 S.W.3d 313	138
2004	Costello v. Christus Santa Rosa Health Care Corp.	141 S.W.3d 245	131
1995	Tucker v. Tucker†	908 S.W.2d 530	130
2001	Callaghan Ranch, Ltd. v. Killam	53 S.W.3d 1	112
1996	Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. v. Odem	929 S.W.2d 513	110
1999	Welch v. State	993 S.W.2d 690	106
2004	In the Interest of SSJ-J	153 S.W.3d 132	103
1995	Ybarra v. State	890 S.W.2d 98	103
1998	Templeton v. Dreiss	961 S.W.2d 645	102
2002	Texas Sting, Ltd. v. R.B. Foods, Inc.	82 S.W.3d 644	101

Showing the 15 most-cited of 749 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 was Catherine M. Stone on?: Catherine M. Stone was 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).