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 2002 / Served to 2013

Jack Carter

Justice, Court of Appeals of Texas

Jack Carter was a Justice of the Court of Appeals of Texas, who joined the court in 2002. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 2002–2013 · 11 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2002	Court of Appeals of Texas	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Carter authored 306 published opinions for the court (2003–2013), plus 20 dissents and 24 concurrences. Most cited: Hartsfield v. State (543 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. 336 of these were attributed to Carter 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	Hartsfield v. State†	305 S.W.3d 859	543
2007	In the Interest of S.K.A., M.A., and SA., Minor Children†	236 S.W.3d 875	225
2009	Rhoten v. State†	299 S.W.3d 349	184
2005	Hall v. State†	161 S.W.3d 142	177
2005	Delacruz v. State†	167 S.W.3d 904	152
2005	Williamson v. State†	175 S.W.3d 522	139
2013	in the Interest of O.R.F., a Child†	417 S.W.3d 24	131
2007	Fuller v. State†	224 S.W.3d 823	131
2013	in the Interest of N.L.D., a Child†	412 S.W.3d 810	128
2003	Fluellen v. State†	104 S.W.3d 152	122
2003	in the Interest of N. R., a Child†	101 S.W.3d 771	120
2005	SunBridge Healthcare Corp. v. Penny†	160 S.W.3d 230	117
2005	Malone v. State†	163 S.W.3d 785	115
2006	In Re the Marriage of Joyner†	196 S.W.3d 883	109
2009	Paselk v. Rabun†	293 S.W.3d 600	101

Showing the 15 most-cited of 350 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 Jack Carter on?: Jack Carter was a Justice of the Court of Appeals of Texas.

Sources

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11 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).