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 1994 / Served to 2011

David Chew

Justice, Court of Appeals of Texas

David Chew was a Justice of the Court of Appeals of Texas, who joined the court in 1994. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1994–2011 · 16 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1994	Court of Appeals of Texas	–	–

Education

Southern Methodist University

Judicial Record

In our data, Chew authored 456 published opinions for the court (1995–2011), plus 5 dissents and 2 concurrences. Most cited: Hill v. Heritage Resources, Inc. (169 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. 331 of these were attributed to Chew 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
1998	Hill v. Heritage Resources, Inc.†	964 S.W.2d 89	169
1997	Edwards v. Texas Department of Protective & Regulatory Services	946 S.W.2d 130	134
2006	In Re Shredder Co., LLC†	225 S.W.3d 676	120
1997	Ruiz v. Ruiz	946 S.W.2d 123	116
1997	Hernandez v. State	946 S.W.2d 108	91
1998	Ramirez v. State	976 S.W.2d 219	90
1997	Soto v. El Paso Natural Gas Co.	942 S.W.2d 671	87
2009	In the Interest of K.R.C.†	346 S.W.3d 618	83
2000	Barraza v. Eureka Co.†	25 S.W.3d 225	78
1995	Maldonado v. State	902 S.W.2d 708	78
1996	Austin Hardwoods, Inc. v. Vanden Berghe	917 S.W.2d 320	75
2004	Cass v. Stephens	156 S.W.3d 38	72
1995	Siefkas v. Siefkas	902 S.W.2d 72	71
2008	Castillo v. August†	248 S.W.3d 874	69
2010	Pagosa Oil & Gas, L.L.C. v. Marrs & Smith Partnership†	323 S.W.3d 203	67

Showing the 15 most-cited of 463 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 David Chew on?: David Chew was a Justice of the Court of Appeals of Texas.

Sources

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16 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).