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The court's current selection method is partisan election.

Court of Appeals of Texas / Joined 2002 / Active

Evelyn V. Keyes

Justice, Court of Appeals of Texas

Evelyn V. Keyes is a Justice of the Court of Appeals of Texas, serving since 2002. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2002 · 24 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2002	Court of Appeals of Texas	–	–

Education

Tulane University of Louisiana

Judicial Record

In our data, Keyes authored 456 published opinions for the court (2002–2019), plus 94 dissents and 35 concurrences. Most cited: Hahn v. Love (214 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. 349 of these were attributed to Keyes 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
2009	Hahn v. Love	321 S.W.3d 517	214
2006	Gray v. CHCA Bayshore L.P.	189 S.W.3d 855	212
2009	B & W SUPPLY, INC. v. Beckman	305 S.W.3d 10	156
2010	In re V.V.· Concurrence†	349 S.W.3d 548	148
2003	Swarb v. State	125 S.W.3d 672	145
2005	Shanklin v. State· Dissent†	190 S.W.3d 154	143
2005	Robinson v. State	174 S.W.3d 320	143
2007	Texas Southern University v. State Street Bank & Trust Co.· Concurrence†	212 S.W.3d 893	134
2006	Milner v. State	263 S.W.3d 146	126
2003	Abetter Trucking Co. v. Arizpe	113 S.W.3d 503	124
2007	Whitworth v. Whitworth· Dissent†	222 S.W.3d 616	123
2006	Keith v. Keith· Dissent†	221 S.W.3d 156	118
2006	Gainous v. Gainous· Concurrence†	219 S.W.3d 97	117
2004	Johnson v. State	176 S.W.3d 74	113
2011	Jose Marvin Martinez v. State†	371 S.W.3d 232	112

Showing the 15 most-cited of 586 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 Evelyn V. Keyes on?: Evelyn V. Keyes is a Justice of the Court of Appeals of Texas.

Sources

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24 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).