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The court's current selection method is partisan election.

Court of Appeals of Texas / Joined 2005 / Served to 2022

Charles A. Kreger

Justice, Court of Appeals of Texas

Charles A. Kreger was a Justice of the Court of Appeals of Texas, who joined the court in 2005. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1959 · age 67
Tenure: 2005–2022 · 17 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2005	Court of Appeals of Texas	–	–
2011	Court of Appeals of Texas	–	–
2017	Court of Appeals of Texas	–	–

Education

University of Houston	Political Science	1982
South Texas College		1985

Judicial Record

In our data, Kreger authored 83 published opinions for the court (2005–2019), plus 7 dissents and 1 concurrence. Most cited: In Re Commitment of Day (179 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. 91 of these were attributed to Kreger 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
2011	In Re Commitment of Day†	342 S.W.3d 193	179
2008	CRITERIUM-FARRELL ENGINEERS v. Owens†	248 S.W.3d 395	75
2014	GoDaddy.com, LLC v. Hollie Toups†	429 S.W.3d 752	68
2005	Gregory v. State†	159 S.W.3d 254	52
2010	Cleveland Regional Medical Center, L.P. v. Celtic Properties, L.C.†	323 S.W.3d 322	50
2008	Stafford v. State†	248 S.W.3d 400	37
2014	in Re Commitment of John James Smith Jr.†	422 S.W.3d 802	31
2007	Presiado v. Sheffield†	230 S.W.3d 272	31
2008	In Re Parte Klem†	269 S.W.3d 711	28
2008	Fluor Enterprises, Inc. v. Conex International Corp.†	273 S.W.3d 426	27
2008	Johnson v. State†	271 S.W.3d 359	27
2008	Schmidt v. Dubose†	259 S.W.3d 213	23
2008	Morgan v. Morgan†	254 S.W.3d 485	22
2005	MKC Energy Investments, Inc. v. Sheldon†	182 S.W.3d 372	22
2014	Carlos Omar Cordero v. State†	444 S.W.3d 812	21

Showing the 15 most-cited of 91 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 A. Kreger on?: Charles A. Kreger was a Justice of the Court of Appeals of Texas.

Sources

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17 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).