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 2015 / Active

David Newell

Judge, Texas Court of Criminal Appeals

David Newell is a Judge of the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, serving since 2015. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2015 · 11 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2015	Texas Court of Criminal Appeals	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Newell authored 21 published opinions for the court (2015–2019), plus 5 dissents and 13 concurrences. Most cited: Gonzalez v. State (361 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. 39 of these were attributed to Newell 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
2018	Gonzalez v. State†	544 S.W.3d 363	361
2016	Simpson, Mark Twain†	488 S.W.3d 318	262
2018	Lerma v. State†	543 S.W.3d 184	218
2017	Broussard, Kenneth· Concurrence†	517 S.W.3d 814	216
2016	London v. State†	490 S.W.3d 503	148
2017	Salinas, Orlando· Dissent†	523 S.W.3d 103	127
2016	Bullock v. State· Dissent†	509 S.W.3d 921	113
2015	State v. Cuong Phu Le†	463 S.W.3d 872	112
2015	Wachtendorf, John Allen Jr.· Concurrence†	475 S.W.3d 895	108
2015	Butcher, Charles E. Ii· Concurrence†	454 S.W.3d 13	94
2017	State v. Rodriguez†	521 S.W.3d 1	90
2018	Ramjattansingh v. State†	548 S.W.3d 540	89
2019	Milton v. State†	572 S.W.3d 234	76
2015	EX PARTE Eric Michael HEILMAN, Appellee· Concurrence†	456 S.W.3d 159	74
2015	Paredes, Jovany Jampher†	462 S.W.3d 510	73

Showing the 15 most-cited of 39 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 is David Newell on?: David Newell is 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 2026-07-02. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).