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The court's current selection method is partisan election.

Court of Appeals of Texas / Joined 2007 / Served to 2024

Georgina Martinez Benavides

Justice, Court of Appeals of Texas

Georgina Martinez Benavides was a Justice of the Court of Appeals of Texas, who joined the court in 2007. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1962 · age 64
Tenure: 2007–2024 · 17 yrs
Education: The of Texas at Austin 1985

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2007	Court of Appeals of Texas	–	–
2013	Court of Appeals of Texas	–	–
2019	Court of Appeals of Texas	–	–

Education

The University of Texas at Austin	Business Administration	1985
University of Houston		1988

Judicial Record

In our data, Benavides authored 90 published opinions for the court (2007–2018), plus 2 dissents. Most cited: Wackenhut Corrections Corp. v. De La Rosa (77 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. 82 of these were attributed to Benavides 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	Wackenhut Corrections Corp. v. De La Rosa†	305 S.W.3d 594	77
2008	Clements v. Haskovec†	251 S.W.3d 79	66
2010	Reckart v. State†	323 S.W.3d 588	58
2007	In Re Guerra	235 S.W.3d 392	56
2007	Texas Department of Public Safety v. Fredricks†	235 S.W.3d 275	53
2013	Black v. Shor†	443 S.W.3d 170	44
2009	Garcia v. State Farm Lloyds†	287 S.W.3d 809	42
2016	In re Butt†	495 S.W.3d 455	39
2013	Paul Black v. Toby Shor and Seashore Investments Management Trust†	443 S.W.3d 154	39
2010	Franks v. Roades†	310 S.W.3d 615	36
2014	in Re Mike East, Alice East, Lisa East and Alejandro Urias†	476 S.W.3d 61	35
2008	Shedden v. State†	268 S.W.3d 717	33
2009	Ballesteros v. Nueces County	286 S.W.3d 566	30
2011	Madrigal v. State†	347 S.W.3d 809	29
2010	Pena v. State†	323 S.W.3d 522	28

Showing the 15 most-cited of 92 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 Georgina Martinez Benavides on?: Georgina Martinez Benavides was a Justice of the Court of Appeals of Texas.

Sources

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17 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).