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 1991 / Served to 1999

Charlie Baird

Judge, Texas Court of Criminal Appeals

Charlie Baird was a Judge of the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, who joined the court in 1991. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1955 · age 71
Tenure: 1991–1999 · 8 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1991	Texas Court of Criminal Appeals	–	–

Education

South Texas College of Law

Judicial Record

In our data, Baird authored 134 published opinions for the court (1990–1999), plus 108 dissents and 146 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. 277 of these were attributed to Baird 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· Concurrence†	877 S.W.2d 768	2,561
1993	Bigley v. State· Concurrence†	865 S.W.2d 26	1,789
1996	McFarland v. State· Dissent†	928 S.W.2d 482	1,746
1997	Ex Parte Wilson· Dissent†	956 S.W.2d 25	1,636
1995	Dinkins v. State	894 S.W.2d 330	1,534
1996	Hutch v. State	922 S.W.2d 166	1,524
1993	Rousseau v. State· Dissent†	855 S.W.2d 666	1,521
1996	Dowthitt v. State· Concurrence†	931 S.W.2d 244	1,429
1997	McDuff v. State· Concurrence†	939 S.W.2d 607	1,412
1994	Abdnor v. State	871 S.W.2d 726	1,398
1991	Chambers v. State· Concurrence†	805 S.W.2d 459	1,350
1998	Leday v. State· Concurrence†	983 S.W.2d 713	1,256
1996	Villarreal v. State· Dissent†	935 S.W.2d 134	1,246
1993	Muniz v. State· Dissent†	851 S.W.2d 238	1,228
1997	Davis v. State	947 S.W.2d 240	1,223

Showing the 15 most-cited of 389 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 Charlie Baird on?: Charlie Baird was a Judge of the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals.

Sources

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8 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).