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The court's current selection method is partisan election.

Court of Appeals of Texas / Joined 2017 / Served to 2022

Irene Alarcon Rios

Justice, Court of Appeals of Texas

Irene Alarcon Rios was a Justice of the Court of Appeals of Texas, who joined the court in 2017. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 2017–2022 · 5 yrs
Education: Texas Tech 1986

Judicial service

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

Education

Texas Tech University	Business Administration	1986
St Mary's University		1990

Judicial Record

In our data, Rios authored 11 published opinions for the court (2017–2018), plus 1 dissent. Most cited: Lowry v. Tarbox (44 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. 12 of these were attributed to Rios 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	Lowry v. Tarbox†	537 S.W.3d 599	44
2017	Roberts v. Roberts†	531 S.W.3d 224	33
2017	Grubbs v. Atw Invs., Inc.†	544 S.W.3d 421	13
2017	Gauna v. State†	534 S.W.3d 7	12
2018	Orion Real Estate & Woodhill Pub. Facility Corp. v. Sarro†	559 S.W.3d 599	9
2018	Tex. Dep't of Transp. v. Ramirez†	566 S.W.3d 18	7
2017	Murray v. State†	534 S.W.3d 540	6
2017	De Los Santos v. Comm'n for Lawyer Discipline†	547 S.W.3d 640	5
2017	Gregory Sanchez v. Stripes LLC and Stripes Convenience Store, an Assumed or Common Name· Dissent†	523 S.W.3d 810	4
2018	In re Forney†	554 S.W.3d 145	3
2017	State v. Dai'Vonte E'Shaun Titus Ross†	531 S.W.3d 878	2
2018	In re Mcadoo†	559 S.W.3d 589	0

Showing the 12 most-cited of 12 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 Irene Alarcon Rios on?: Irene Alarcon Rios 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).