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 2001 / Served to 2009

Eva M. Guzman

Justice, Court of Appeals of Texas

Eva M. Guzman was a Justice of the Court of Appeals of Texas, who joined the court in 2001. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 2001–2009 · 8 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2001	Court of Appeals of Texas	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Guzman authored 125 published opinions for the court (2002–2010), plus 6 dissents and 10 concurrences. Most cited: Retzlaff v. Texas Department of Criminal Justice (273 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. 20 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
2002	Retzlaff v. Texas Department of Criminal Justice	94 S.W.3d 650	273
2003	McMahan v. Greenwood	108 S.W.3d 467	233
2006	Mays v. Pierce	203 S.W.3d 564	171
2003	Walker Insurance Services v. Bottle Rock Power Corp.	108 S.W.3d 538	133
2005	Cullins v. Foster	171 S.W.3d 521	127
2007	7979 Airport Garage, L.L.C. v. Dollar Rent a Car Systems, Inc.	245 S.W.3d 488	120
2005	Mokkala v. Mead	178 S.W.3d 66	120
2005	Ford v. State	179 S.W.3d 203	113
2009	Environmental Procedures, Inc. v. Guidry	282 S.W.3d 602	108
2006	XCO Production Co. v. Jamison	194 S.W.3d 622	104
2006	Zarco v. State· Concurrence†	210 S.W.3d 816	103
2003	Cherqui v. Westheimer Street Festival Corp.	116 S.W.3d 337	103
2002	in the Interest of N.R.C. and L.A.C.†	94 S.W.3d 799	97
2007	Sharma v. Vinmar International, Ltd.· Concurrence†	231 S.W.3d 405	94
2002	Russo v. Smith International, Inc.	93 S.W.3d 428	91

Showing the 15 most-cited of 141 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 Eva M. Guzman on?: Eva M. Guzman was a Justice of the Court of Appeals of Texas.

Sources

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8 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).