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Court of Appeals of Texas / Joined 2003 / Active

James T. Campbell

Justice, Court of Appeals of Texas

James T. Campbell is a Justice of the Court of Appeals of Texas, serving since 2003. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2003 · 23 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2003	Court of Appeals of Texas	–	–

Education

Vanderbilt University

Judicial Record

In our data, Campbell authored 187 published opinions for the court (1997–2018), plus 8 dissents and 16 concurrences. Most cited: In the Interest of N.R.T., a Child (204 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. 190 of these were attributed to Campbell 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
2011	In the Interest of N.R.T., a Child†	338 S.W.3d 667	204
2011	in the Interest of D.S., N.S., Children†	333 S.W.3d 379	195
1997	Taylor v. State	947 S.W.2d 698	96
2004	In the Interest of S.M.L.D., a Child†	150 S.W.3d 754	91
2009	Ortiz v. State†	299 S.W.3d 930	76
1998	Jones v. State	963 S.W.2d 177	67
2012	Cantu v. State†	366 S.W.3d 771	64
2013	in the Interest of D.N. and D.N., Children· Dissent†	405 S.W.3d 863	63
2012	Paul David Wolfe v. State· Concurrence†	377 S.W.3d 141	63
2006	in the Interest of A.C.B., O.B.B., O.C.B. and O.D.B., Children†	198 S.W.3d 294	63
2006	In Re Stacy K. Boone, Pa	223 S.W.3d 398	63
2006	In the Interest of T.B.D., a Child†	223 S.W.3d 515	50
2017	Ryder v. State†	514 S.W.3d 391	46
2009	Ptomey v. Texas Tech University†	277 S.W.3d 487	43
2004	In the Interest of J.W.M.†	153 S.W.3d 541	43

Showing the 15 most-cited of 211 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 is James T. Campbell on?: James T. Campbell is a Justice of the Court of Appeals of Texas.

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23 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).