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 2017 / Served to 2022

Elizabeth S. Kerr

Justice, Court of Appeals of Texas

Elizabeth S. Kerr was a Justice of the Court of Appeals of Texas, who joined the court in 2017. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 2017–2022 · 5 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2017	Court of Appeals of Texas	–	–

Education

Rice University	English and Art History	1978
The University of Texas at Austin		1982

Judicial Record

In our data, Kerr authored 8 published opinions for the court (2017–2018), plus 1 dissent. Most cited: Ette v. State (23 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. 9 of these were attributed to Kerr 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
2017	Ette v. State· Dissent†	551 S.W.3d 783	23
2018	Jimenez v. McGeary†	542 S.W.3d 810	13
2017	New Talk, Inc. v. Southwestern Bell Telephone Co.†	520 S.W.3d 637	12
2017	Lovett v. State†	523 S.W.3d 342	9
2017	In re the Commitment of Perdue†	530 S.W.3d 750	8
2018	Tigh v. De Lage Landen Fin. Servs.†	545 S.W.3d 714	7
2018	Robinson v. Home Owners Mgmt. Enters., Inc.†	549 S.W.3d 226	6
2017	Texas Juvenile Justice Department v. PHI, Inc.†	537 S.W.3d 707	6
2017	Sabre Travel Int'l Ltd. v. Deutsche Lufthansa AG†	549 S.W.3d 600	1

Showing the 9 most-cited of 9 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 Elizabeth S. Kerr on?: Elizabeth S. Kerr was a Justice of the Court of Appeals of Texas.

Sources

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5 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).