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 2011 / Served to 2012

Christopher Antcliff

Justice, Court of Appeals of Texas

Christopher Antcliff was a Justice of the Court of Appeals of Texas, who joined the court in 2011. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 2011–2012 · 1 yr

Judicial service

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

Judicial Record

In our data, Antcliff authored 54 published opinions for the court (2011–2012), plus 1 dissent. Most cited: A. S. v. Texas Department of Family and Protective Services (117 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. 55 of these were attributed to Antcliff 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
2012	A. S. v. Texas Department of Family and Protective Services†	394 S.W.3d 703	117
2012	Nairn v. Killeen Independent School District†	366 S.W.3d 229	47
2012	Fredrick Merida Warriner v. Dana Dian Warriner†	394 S.W.3d 240	32
2011	in the Estate of Edmund B. Coleman†	360 S.W.3d 606	27
2012	in Re: State Farm Automobile Insurance Company†	395 S.W.3d 229	26
2012	In Re ELAMEX, S.A. De C v. Elamex USA, Corp., and Mount Franklin Foods, L.L.C†	367 S.W.3d 879	25
2012	Approach Resources I, L.P. v. Cheryl Elizabeth Clayton†	360 S.W.3d 632	24
2012	D. F. v. Texas Department of Family and Protective Services†	393 S.W.3d 821	23
2012	Clapp v. Perez†	394 S.W.3d 254	22
2011	Poinette R. Godfrey and Jordan A. Godfrey-Stovall v. Security Service Federal Credit Union†	356 S.W.3d 720	22
2012	Business Staffing, Inc. v. Jackson Hot Oil Service†	401 S.W.3d 224	21
2012	In Re: ELAMEX, S.A. De C v. Elamex USA, Corp., and Mount Franklin Foods, L.L.C.†	367 S.W.3d 891	20
2012	Daniel Rojas, Carla Rojas, ATM's of El Paso, Dancar Enterprises, Inc., and Document Processing Systems, Inc. v. David Duarte and Elizabeth Duarte†	393 S.W.3d 837	17
2012	Echostar Satellite L.L.C. and Dish Network Service L.L.C. v. Ray Aguilar†	394 S.W.3d 276	17
2012	Marty Danielle Gann v. Anheuser-Busch, Inc. and Falls Distributing Company, Inc.†	394 S.W.3d 83	16

Showing the 15 most-cited of 55 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 Christopher Antcliff on?: Christopher Antcliff was a Justice of the Court of Appeals of Texas.

Sources

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1 year 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).