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 2003 / Active

Jane Nenninger Bland

Justice, Court of Appeals of Texas

Jane Nenninger Bland is a Justice of the Court of Appeals of Texas (56 judges, selected by partisan election), serving since 2003. She previously served on the Texas 281st Judicial District Court and Supreme Court of Texas. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1956 · age 70
Tenure: Since 2003 · 23 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1997	Texas 281st Judicial District Court	–	–
2003	Court of Appeals of Texas	–	–
2005	Court of Appeals of Texas	–	–
2007	Court of Appeals of Texas	–	–
2013	Court of Appeals of Texas	–	–
2019	Supreme Court of Texas	–	–
2021	Court of Appeals of Texas	–	–

Education

The University of Texas at Austin	with honors	1990
The University of Texas at Austin	Accounting, Business Administration, with highest honors	1995

Judicial Record

In our data, Bland authored 336 published opinions for the court (2004–2026), plus 10 dissents and 14 concurrences. Most cited: Smith v. State (190 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. 172 of these were attributed to Bland 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	Smith v. State	355 S.W.3d 138	190
2005	Alpert v. Crain, Caton & James, P.C.	178 S.W.3d 398	180
2011	Jacob Matthew Kiffe v. State†	361 S.W.3d 104	154
2010	In re V.V.†	349 S.W.3d 548	148
2007	Brown v. Brown	236 S.W.3d 343	136
2007	Indian Beach Property Owners' Ass'n v. Linden	222 S.W.3d 682	129
2013	Newspaper Holdings, Inc. v. Crazy Hotel Assisted Living, Ltd.†	416 S.W.3d 71	119
2006	Love v. State	199 S.W.3d 447	119
2006	In Re Smith	263 S.W.3d 93	118
2004	Oyster Creek Financial Corp. v. Richwood Investments II, Inc.	176 S.W.3d 307	118
2006	Canseco v. State	199 S.W.3d 437	115
2006	Dennis v. State	178 S.W.3d 172	111
2007	Madison Ex Rel. M.M. v. Williamson	241 S.W.3d 145	102
2004	Wilson v. Wilson	132 S.W.3d 533	99
2005	HTS Services, Inc. v. Hallwood Realty Partners, L.P.	190 S.W.3d 108	97

Showing the 15 most-cited of 360 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 Jane Nenninger Bland on?: Jane Nenninger Bland 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).