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 2003 / Active

Elizabeth Lang-Miers

Justice, Court of Appeals of Texas

Elizabeth Lang-Miers is a Justice of the Court of Appeals of Texas, serving since 2003. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2003 · 23 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2003	Court of Appeals of Texas	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Lang-Miers authored 2 published opinions for the court (2005–2016), plus 2 dissents. Most cited: William D. Sheetz v. Yolanda Slaughter (43 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. 4 of these were attributed to Lang-Miers 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
2016	William D. Sheetz v. Yolanda Slaughter· Dissent†	503 S.W.3d 495	43
2013	Celmer, Elizabeth W. v. McGarry, Charles†	412 S.W.3d 691	16
2005	Carrollton-Farmers Branch Independent School District v. JPD, Inc.· Dissent†	168 S.W.3d 184	11
2009	In Re Ensco Offshore International Company†	312 S.W.3d 42	0

Showing the 4 most-cited of 4 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 is Elizabeth Lang-Miers on?: Elizabeth Lang-Miers is a Justice of the Court of Appeals of Texas.

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23 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).