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The court's current selection method is partisan election.

Court of Appeals of Texas / Joined 1995 / Active

Jim R. Wright

Justice, Court of Appeals of Texas

Jim R. Wright is a Justice of the Court of Appeals of Texas, serving since 1995. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 1995 · 31 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1995	Court of Appeals of Texas	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Wright authored 783 published opinions for the court (1995–2017), plus 5 dissents and 3 concurrences. Most cited: Dupree v. Texas Department of Protective & Regulatory Services (672 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. 248 of these were attributed to Wright 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
1995	Dupree v. Texas Department of Protective & Regulatory Services	907 S.W.2d 81	672
2010	Polk v. State	337 S.W.3d 286	485
2005	Eaden v. State†	161 S.W.3d 173	436
2000	Dickey v. Club Corp. of America	12 S.W.3d 172	209
2006	Jones v. Blume	196 S.W.3d 440	174
2005	Kendrick v. Garcia	171 S.W.3d 698	171
2009	In the Interest of D.D.†	279 S.W.3d 849	152
2007	Black v. State	217 S.W.3d 687	148
1995	Sullivan v. Bickel & Brewer	943 S.W.2d 477	129
2008	Antwine v. State	268 S.W.3d 634	116
2008	Isham v. State	258 S.W.3d 244	106
2006	In the Interest of A.P.†	184 S.W.3d 410	103
2008	In the Interest of M.P.B.†	257 S.W.3d 804	101
1997	Ashcraft v. Lookadoo· Dissent†	952 S.W.2d 907	93
2007	Stafford v. Southern Vanity Magazine, Inc.†	231 S.W.3d 530	91

Showing the 15 most-cited of 791 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 Jim R. Wright on?: Jim R. Wright is a Justice of the Court of Appeals of Texas.

Sources

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31 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).