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 / Served to 2010

Felipe Reyna

Justice, Court of Appeals of Texas

Felipe Reyna was a Justice of the Court of Appeals of Texas, who joined the court in 2003. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 2003–2010 · 7 yrs

Judicial service

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

Judicial Record

In our data, Reyna authored 233 published opinions for the court (2004–2010), plus 3 dissents and 2 concurrences. Most cited: in the Interest of S.N., a Child (165 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. 231 of these were attributed to Reyna 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
2008	in the Interest of S.N., a Child†	272 S.W.3d 45	165
2010	Ex Parte Gonzalez†	323 S.W.3d 557	160
2008	In Re Sarkissian†	243 S.W.3d 860	148
2010	Newton v. State†	301 S.W.3d 315	135
2008	In Re Smith†	270 S.W.3d 783	115
2007	Pena v. State†	226 S.W.3d 634	95
2005	Moore v. Waldrop†	166 S.W.3d 380	88
2005	Hanson v. State†	180 S.W.3d 726	75
2004	Moore v. State†	143 S.W.3d 305	72
2005	Shea v. State†	167 S.W.3d 98	65
2005	Pena v. State†	166 S.W.3d 274	63
2005	Harris v. State†	160 S.W.3d 621	63
2004	Byrd v. Estate of Nelms†	154 S.W.3d 149	62
2005	Dueitt v. Arrowhead Lakes Property Owners, Inc.†	180 S.W.3d 733	60
2004	Ex Parte Davis†	147 S.W.3d 546	58

Showing the 15 most-cited of 238 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 Felipe Reyna on?: Felipe Reyna was a Justice of the Court of Appeals of Texas.

Sources

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7 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).