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 2006 / Served to 2012

Diane Henson

Justice, Court of Appeals of Texas

Diane Henson was a Justice of the Court of Appeals of Texas, who joined the court in 2006. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 2006–2012 · 6 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2006	Court of Appeals of Texas	–	–

Education

Drake University

Judicial Record

In our data, Henson authored 112 published opinions for the court (2007–2012), plus 17 dissents and 6 concurrences. Most cited: Travis Campbell v. State (93 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. 135 of these were attributed to Henson 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	Travis Campbell v. State†	382 S.W.3d 545	93
2008	Bogar v. Esparza· Dissent†	257 S.W.3d 354	90
2007	State v. Griffey†	241 S.W.3d 700	88
2009	Combs v. Entertainment Publications, Inc.· Concurrence†	292 S.W.3d 712	83
2007	Tanner v. State· Dissent†	228 S.W.3d 852	76
2012	Stanley Shook// Terry Walden and Joy Walden v. Terry Walden and Joy Walden// Stanley Shook, Patrick Jaehne and S&J Endeavors, L.L.C.· Concurrence†	368 S.W.3d 604	69
2011	Scally v. Texas State Board of Medical Examiners†	351 S.W.3d 434	64
2011	Branch v. State†	335 S.W.3d 893	64
2009	Ramirez v. State†	301 S.W.3d 410	61
2007	Aguilar v. State†	279 S.W.3d 350	61
2010	Texas Department of Public Safety v. Salazar†	304 S.W.3d 896	60
2012	Heritage on the San Gabriel Homeowners Ass'n v. Texas Commission on Environmental Quality†	393 S.W.3d 417	59
2011	S & P CONSULTING ENGINEERS, PLLC v. Baker· Dissent†	334 S.W.3d 390	49
2008	General Motors Corp. v. Bray†	243 S.W.3d 678	46
2008	Merit Management Partners I, L.P. v. Noelke· Dissent†	266 S.W.3d 637	45

Showing the 15 most-cited of 135 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 Diane Henson on?: Diane Henson was a Justice of the Court of Appeals of Texas.

Sources

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6 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).