How do judges of the Supreme Court of Texas reach the bench?

The court's current selection method is partisan election.

Supreme Court of Texas / Joined 2009 / Former Justice

Eva Guzman

Justice, Supreme Court of Texas

Eva Guzman was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Texas, who joined the court in 2009. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1961 · age 65
Tenure: 2009 · 16 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2009	Supreme Court of Texas	–	–

Education

University of Houston
South Texas College of Law

Judicial Record

In our data, Guzman authored 68 published opinions for the court (2010–2019), plus 10 dissents and 19 concurrences. Most cited: in the Interest of A.B. and H.B., Children (847 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. 88 of these were attributed to Guzman 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
2014	in the Interest of A.B. and H.B., Children†	437 S.W.3d 498	847
2018	in the Interest of A.C., J.Y., J.Y. Jr., L.B., and E.B., Children†	560 S.W.3d 624	649
2010	Jelinek v. Casas†	328 S.W.3d 526	597
2010	Kelly v. General Interior Construction, Inc.	301 S.W.3d 653	493
2011	Railroad Commission v. Texas Citizens for a Safe Future & Clean Water	336 S.W.3d 619	407
2018	Uri, Inc. v. Kleberg Cnty.†	543 S.W.3d 755	395
2013	Moncrief Oil International, Inc. v. Oao Gazprom, Gazprom Export, LLC, and Gazprom Marketing & Trading, Ltd.†	414 S.W.3d 142	395
2011	The City of Houston v. Steve Williams†	353 S.W.3d 128	370
2012	Prairie View A&M University v. Diljit K. Chatha†	381 S.W.3d 500	358
2015	Ashish Patel, Anverali Satani, Nazira Momin, Minaz Chamadia, and Vijay Lakshmi Yogi v. Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation· Dissent†	469 S.W.3d 69	345
2011	In Re Reece	341 S.W.3d 360	330
2012	Pns Stores, Inc., D/B/A MacFrugal's Bargain Closeouts D/B/A MacFrugals, Inc. v. Anna E. Rivera as Next Friend for Rachel Rivera†	379 S.W.3d 267	290
2017	Shields Ltd. Partnership v. Bradberry†	526 S.W.3d 471	287
2013	Coinmach Corp. F/K/A Solon Automated Services, Inc. v. Aspenwood Apartment Corp.· Concurrence†	417 S.W.3d 909	282
2013	Joseph E. Hancock v. Easwaran P. Variyam†	400 S.W.3d 59	277

Showing the 15 most-cited of 97 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 Supreme Court of Texas reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is partisan election.
Which court was Eva Guzman on?: Eva Guzman was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Texas.

Sources

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16 years on the Supreme Court of Texas. Data as of 2026-03-31. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).