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 1992 / Served to 1998

Charles Holcomb

Justice, Court of Appeals of Texas

Charles Holcomb was a Justice of the Court of Appeals of Texas, who joined the court in 1992. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1992–1998 · 6 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1992	Court of Appeals of Texas	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Holcomb authored 205 published opinions for the court (1993–1998), plus 2 dissents. Most cited: Simmons v. State (217 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. 47 of these were attributed to Holcomb 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
1997	Simmons v. State	944 S.W.2d 11	217
1994	Montana v. Patterson	894 S.W.2d 812	146
1996	Ortiz v. State	930 S.W.2d 849	112
1997	In the Interest of M.W.	959 S.W.2d 661	98
1996	Aguilar v. Chastain	923 S.W.2d 740	89
1995	Williams v. State	906 S.W.2d 58	77
1997	DuBois v. DuBois	956 S.W.2d 607	69
1998	Sivley v. Sivley	972 S.W.2d 850	68
1997	Tutt v. State	940 S.W.2d 114	63
1998	Boatman v. Lites	970 S.W.2d 41	57
1996	MacKey v. U.P. Enterprises, Inc.	935 S.W.2d 446	57
1998	Kelley v. State	968 S.W.2d 395	54
1994	Doyle v. State	875 S.W.2d 21	52
1994	In the Interest of J.F.	888 S.W.2d 140	51
1994	Emmert v. Progressive County Mutual Insurance Co.	882 S.W.2d 32	49

Showing the 15 most-cited of 207 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 Charles Holcomb on?: Charles Holcomb was a Justice of the Court of Appeals of Texas.

Sources

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6 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).