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 Edward Miller

Judge, Texas Court of Criminal Appeals

Charles Edward Miller 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	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Miller authored 258 published opinions for the court (1983–1994), plus 46 dissents and 63 concurrences. Most cited: Almanza v. State (6,557 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. 144 of these were attributed to Miller 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
1985	Almanza v. State· Concurrence†	686 S.W.2d 157	6,557
1990	Romero v. State	800 S.W.2d 539	2,504
1991	Boykin v. State· Dissent†	818 S.W.2d 782	1,829
1991	Saxton v. State	804 S.W.2d 910	1,233
1991	Heitman v. State	815 S.W.2d 681	1,035
1991	Ethington v. State	819 S.W.2d 854	944
1991	Long v. State	823 S.W.2d 259	804
1984	Jackson v. State	680 S.W.2d 809	725
1989	Butler v. State	769 S.W.2d 234	713
1994	Bignall v. State	887 S.W.2d 21	684
1984	Ingham v. State	679 S.W.2d 503	684
1988	Rose v. State· Concurrence†	752 S.W.2d 529	647
1991	Turner v. State· Concurrence†	805 S.W.2d 423	581
1990	Garcia v. State	792 S.W.2d 88	563
1990	Madden v. State	799 S.W.2d 683	557

Showing the 15 most-cited of 380 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 Edward Miller on?: Charles Edward Miller 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).