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 2013 / Served to 2020

David William Evans

Justice, Court of Appeals of Texas

David William Evans was a Justice of the Court of Appeals of Texas (56 judges, selected by partisan election), who joined the court in 2013. He previously served on the Texas 193rd Judicial District Court. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 2013–2020 · 7 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1999	Texas 193rd Judicial District Court	–	–
2013	Court of Appeals of Texas	–	–

Education

University of Connecticut	Greek & Philosophy, cum laude	1977
Dallas Theological Seminary	Hebrew & Greek Studies	1981
Southern Methodist University		1984

Judicial Record

In our data, Evans authored 824 published opinions for the court (1973–2018), plus 4 dissents. Most cited: Adams v. Petrade International, Inc. (184 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. 59 of these were attributed to Evans 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
1988	Adams v. Petrade International, Inc.	754 S.W.2d 696	184
1986	Mercer v. Bludworth	715 S.W.2d 693	155
1984	Intermedics, Inc. v. Grady	683 S.W.2d 842	133
1993	Dyson Descendant Corp. v. Sonat Exploration Co.	861 S.W.2d 942	126
1981	Denby v. State	627 S.W.2d 435	113
1990	Ex Parte Occhipenti	796 S.W.2d 805	109
1987	James v. Hitchcock Independent School District	742 S.W.2d 701	96
1988	Messer v. State	757 S.W.2d 820	95
1984	Marathon Oil Co. v. Salazar	682 S.W.2d 624	93
1986	Nguyen Ngoc Giao v. Smith & Lamm, P.C.	714 S.W.2d 144	92
1988	Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. v. Attayi	745 S.W.2d 939	90
1987	M.J. Sheridan & Son Co. v. Seminole Pipeline Co.	731 S.W.2d 620	88
1990	Havens v. Tomball Community Hospital	793 S.W.2d 690	86
1983	Clark v. Dedina	658 S.W.2d 293	82
1987	Weaver v. State	721 S.W.2d 495	74

Showing the 15 most-cited of 830 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 William Evans on?: David William Evans was a Justice of the Court of Appeals of Texas.

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7 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).