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 1983 / Served to 1994

Charles Frankin Campbell Jr.

Judge, Texas Court of Criminal Appeals

Charles Frankin Campbell Jr. was a Judge of the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, who joined the court in 1983. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1944 · age 82
Tenure: 1983–1994 · 11 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1983	Texas Court of Criminal Appeals	–	–

Education

Southern Methodist University
Southern Methodist University
University of Virginia-Main Campus

Judicial Record

In our data, Campbell authored 270 published opinions for the court (1983–1995), plus 34 dissents and 36 concurrences. Most cited: Jackson v. State (2,561 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. 102 of these were attributed to Campbell 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
1994	Jackson v. State	877 S.W.2d 768	2,561
1991	Boykin v. State	818 S.W.2d 782	1,829
1993	Bigley v. State	865 S.W.2d 26	1,789
1984	Cardona v. State	665 S.W.2d 492	1,383
1993	Muniz v. State	851 S.W.2d 238	1,228
1992	Kelly v. State	824 S.W.2d 568	1,156
1992	McFarland v. State	845 S.W.2d 824	1,003
1992	Narvaiz v. State	840 S.W.2d 415	944
1992	Lankston v. State· Dissent†	827 S.W.2d 907	897
1992	Cantu v. State	842 S.W.2d 667	840
1986	Arline v. State	721 S.W.2d 348	777
1990	Rezac v. State	782 S.W.2d 869	732
1989	Butler v. State· Concurrence†	769 S.W.2d 234	713
1988	Rose v. State· Separate†	752 S.W.2d 529	647
1991	Johnson v. State	803 S.W.2d 272	621

Showing the 15 most-cited of 346 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 was Charles Frankin Campbell Jr. on?: Charles Frankin Campbell Jr. was 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 2026-03-31. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).