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 2017 / Served to 2022

Georgena Marie Palafox

Justice, Court of Appeals of Texas

Georgena Marie Palafox was a Justice of the Court of Appeals of Texas, who joined the court in 2017. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 2017–2022 · 5 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2017	Court of Appeals of Texas	–	–

Education

The University of Texas at El Paso	Public Administration
Pepperdine University	Accounting	1983
Pepperdine University		1987

Judicial Record

In our data, Palafox authored 9 published opinions for the court (2017–2019). Most cited: City of El Paso v. Viel (23 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. 9 of these were attributed to Palafox 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
2017	City of El Paso v. Viel†	523 S.W.3d 876	23
2017	Border Demolition & Environmental, Inc. v. Ernesto Pineda†	535 S.W.3d 140	22
2018	Hernandez v. Hernandez†	547 S.W.3d 898	15
2018	In re Interest of J.M.M.†	549 S.W.3d 293	10
2017	EP Hotel Partners, LP and Spokane Equities Limited Partnership, LTD v. City of El Paso, Mayor Oscar Leeser, City Representatives Emma Acosta, Carl L. Robinson, Michiel R. Noe, Courtney C. Niland, Ann Morgan Lilly, Larry Romero, Claudia Ordaz, Lily Limon, and EP VIDA, LLC†	527 S.W.3d 646	5
2017	Wausau Underwriters Insurance Co. v. Wedel†	518 S.W.3d 615	4
2019	In re Expunction R.P.†	574 S.W.3d 641	3
2019	In re Expunction J.R.†	578 S.W.3d 272	2
2017	In re V.G.†	513 S.W.3d 815	0

Showing the 9 most-cited of 9 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 Georgena Marie Palafox on?: Georgena Marie Palafox was a Justice of the Court of Appeals of Texas.

Sources

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5 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).