How do judges of the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals reach the bench?

The court's current selection method is partisan election.

Texas Court of Criminal Appeals / Joined 1991 / Served to 1996

Frank Maloney

Judge, Texas Court of Criminal Appeals

Frank Maloney was a Judge of the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, who joined the court in 1991. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1927 · age 99
Tenure: 1991–1996 · 5 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1991	Texas Court of Criminal Appeals	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Maloney authored 115 published opinions for the court (1991–1996), plus 36 dissents and 33 concurrences. Most cited: Clewis v. State (5,788 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. 77 of these were attributed to Maloney 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
1996	Clewis v. State	922 S.W.2d 126	5,788
1994	Jackson v. State· Concurrence†	877 S.W.2d 768	2,561
1991	Geesa v. State	820 S.W.2d 154	2,157
1993	Rousseau v. State	855 S.W.2d 666	1,521
1996	Dowthitt v. State· Concurrence†	931 S.W.2d 244	1,429
1996	Green v. State	934 S.W.2d 92	1,305
1996	Cockrell v. State· Concurrence†	933 S.W.2d 73	1,118
1995	Alvarado v. State· Concurrence†	912 S.W.2d 199	953
1991	Long v. State· Dissent†	823 S.W.2d 259	804
1996	Rachal v. State· Concurrence†	917 S.W.2d 799	768
1995	Broxton v. State· Dissent†	909 S.W.2d 912	738
1994	Bignall v. State· Concurrence†	887 S.W.2d 21	684
1995	Lewis v. State	911 S.W.2d 1	672
1995	Heiselbetz v. State· Concurrence†	906 S.W.2d 500	653
1995	King v. State· Dissent†	895 S.W.2d 701	564

Showing the 15 most-cited of 184 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 Texas Court of Criminal Appeals reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is partisan election.
Which court was Frank Maloney on?: Frank Maloney was a Judge of the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals.

Sources

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