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

George Hanks

Justice, Court of Appeals of Texas

George Hanks 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	–	–

Education

Harvard University

Judicial Record

In our data, Hanks authored 114 published opinions for the court (2003–2011), plus 2 dissents and 4 concurrences. Most cited: Walker v. Texas Department of Family & Protective Services (548 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. 13 of these were attributed to Hanks 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	Walker v. Texas Department of Family & Protective Services	312 S.W.3d 608	548
2006	Beverick v. Koch Power, Inc.	186 S.W.3d 145	166
2003	In the Interest of L.M.†	104 S.W.3d 642	145
2007	Texas Southern University v. State Street Bank & Trust Co.	212 S.W.3d 893	134
2007	Whitworth v. Whitworth	222 S.W.3d 616	123
2006	Gainous v. Gainous· Concurrence†	219 S.W.3d 97	117
2008	In the Interest of A.A.A.†	265 S.W.3d 507	88
2008	Landers v. State Farm Lloyds	257 S.W.3d 740	88
2005	Centerpoint Energy Houston Electric, L.L.P. v. Old TJC Co.	177 S.W.3d 425	78
2006	Anderson v. State	193 S.W.3d 34	72
2007	Sterling Chemicals, Inc. v. Texaco Inc.	259 S.W.3d 793	71
2010	Black v. Washington Mutual Bank	318 S.W.3d 414	69
2004	Eckland Consultants, Inc. v. Ryder, Stilwell Inc.	176 S.W.3d 80	63
2007	McCarthy v. Wani Venture, A.S.	251 S.W.3d 573	62
2010	City of Houston v. Guthrie	332 S.W.3d 578	60

Showing the 15 most-cited of 120 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 George Hanks on?: George Hanks 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).