How do judges of the Supreme Court of Texas reach the bench?

The court's current selection method is partisan election.

Supreme Court of Texas / Joined 1999 / Served to 2010

Harriet O'Neill

Justice, Supreme Court of Texas

Harriet O'Neill was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Texas, who joined the court in 1999. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1956 · age 70
Tenure: 1999–2010 · 11 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1999	Supreme Court of Texas	–	–

Education

Converse College

Judicial Record

In our data, O'Neill authored 2 published opinions for the court (1999–2010), plus 23 dissents and 19 concurrences. Most cited: City of Keller v. Wilson (10,088 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. 44 of these were attributed to O'Neill 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
2005	City of Keller v. Wilson· Concurrence†	168 S.W.3d 802	10,088
2006	Tony Gullo Motors I, L.P. and Brien Garcia v. Nury Chapa· Dissent†	212 S.W.3d 299	1,196
2005	Diversicare General Partner, Inc. v. Rubio· Dissent†	185 S.W.3d 842	874
2008	Perry Homes v. Cull· Concurrence†	258 S.W.3d 580	603
2002	St. Joseph Hospital v. Wolff· Concurrence†	94 S.W.3d 513	595
2004	University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center v. Loutzenhiser· Concurrence†	140 S.W.3d 351	485
2004	Southwestern Bell Telephone Co. v. Garza· Concurrence†	164 S.W.3d 607	481
2010	Waffle House, Inc. v. Williams· Dissent†	313 S.W.3d 796	477
2004	Nissan Motor Co. Ltd. v. Armstrong· Concurrence†	145 S.W.3d 131	429
2009	In Re Columbia Medical Center of Las Colinas, Subsidiary, L.P.· Dissent†	290 S.W.3d 204	427
2005	Romero v. KPH Consolidation, Inc.· Concurrence†	166 S.W.3d 212	398
2007	F.F.P. Operating Partners, L.P. v. Duenez· Dissent†	237 S.W.3d 680	394
2002	Shah v. Moss· Dissent†	67 S.W.3d 836	386
2004	Fort Worth Osteopathic Hospital, Inc. v. Reese· Concurrence†	148 S.W.3d 94	340
2004	PPG Industries, Inc. v. JMB/Houston Centers Partners Ltd. Partnership· Concurrence†	146 S.W.3d 79	334

Showing the 15 most-cited of 44 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 Supreme Court of Texas reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is partisan election.
Which court was Harriet O'Neill on?: Harriet O'Neill was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Texas.

Sources

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