How do judges of the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals reach the bench?

The court's current selection method is partisan election.

Texas Court of Criminal Appeals / Joined 1978 / Served to 1978

Jim D. Vollers

Judge, Texas Court of Criminal Appeals

Jim D. Vollers was a Judge of the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, who joined the court in 1978. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1931 · age 95
Tenure: 1978–1978

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1978	Texas Court of Criminal Appeals	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Vollers authored 25 published opinions for the court (1978), plus 9 dissents and 6 concurrences. Most cited: Lloyd v. State (90 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. 37 of these were attributed to Vollers 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
1978	Lloyd v. State· Concurrence†	574 S.W.2d 159	90
1978	Garcia v. State†	573 S.W.2d 12	81
1978	Ex Parte Clear· Concurrence†	573 S.W.2d 224	71
1978	Jordan v. State†	576 S.W.2d 825	63
1978	Brown v. State†	576 S.W.2d 820	59
1978	Ex Parte Paprskar	573 S.W.2d 525	50
1978	Mulchahey v. State†	574 S.W.2d 112	44
1978	Antwine v. State†	572 S.W.2d 541	39
1978	Cuevas v. State· Dissent†	575 S.W.2d 543	30
1978	Chase v. State†	573 S.W.2d 247	28
1978	Ex Parte Mathis†	571 S.W.2d 186	28
1978	Langford v. State· Dissent†	571 S.W.2d 326	26
1978	Broggi v. Curry· Concurrence†	571 S.W.2d 940	25
1978	Daniels v. State†	573 S.W.2d 21	22
1978	Gaston v. State†	574 S.W.2d 120	20

Showing the 15 most-cited of 40 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 Texas Court of Criminal Appeals reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is partisan election.
Which court was Jim D. Vollers on?: Jim D. Vollers was a Judge of the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals.

Sources

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Joined the court in 1978. Data as of 2026-03-31. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).