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The court's current selection method is partisan election.

Court of Appeals of Texas / Joined 2005 / Served to 2024

Hollis Horton III

Justice, Court of Appeals of Texas

Hollis Horton III was a Justice of the Court of Appeals of Texas, who joined the court in 2005. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1955 · age 71
Tenure: 2005–2024 · 19 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2005	Court of Appeals of Texas	–	–
2007	Court of Appeals of Texas	–	–
2013	Court of Appeals of Texas	–	–
2019	Court of Appeals of Texas	–	–

Education

Duke University	magna cum laude	1978
The University of Texas at Austin		1980

Judicial Record

In our data, Horton authored 159 published opinions for the court (2005–2017), plus 10 dissents and 4 concurrences. Most cited: Ex Parte Franklin (161 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. 173 of these were attributed to Horton 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
2010	Ex Parte Franklin†	310 S.W.3d 918	161
2005	in the Interest of L.D.T., C.R.E.T. and W.G.T.†	161 S.W.3d 728	93
2006	In Re the Commitment of Barbee†	192 S.W.3d 835	71
2005	Villasan v. O'ROURKE†	166 S.W.3d 752	71
2005	American Interstate Insurance Co. v. Hinson†	172 S.W.3d 108	67
2006	Ohendalski v. Ohendalski†	203 S.W.3d 910	60
2010	Roberts v. State†	327 S.W.3d 880	57
2008	Royce Homes, L.P. v. Humphrey†	244 S.W.3d 570	38
2014	in Re Commitment of Lester Winkle†	434 S.W.3d 300	33
2007	LeBlanc v. Lamar State College†	232 S.W.3d 294	31
2007	Badall v. State†	216 S.W.3d 865	30
2012	Rivera v. State†	381 S.W.3d 710	29
2009	Russell v. State†	290 S.W.3d 387	29
2008	Ex Parte Young†	257 S.W.3d 276	29
2012	In re Commitment of Kalati†	370 S.W.3d 435	28

Showing the 15 most-cited of 173 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 Hollis Horton III on?: Hollis Horton III was a Justice of the Court of Appeals of Texas.

Sources

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19 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).