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The court's current selection method is partisan election.

Court of Appeals of Texas / Joined 2013 / Served to 2024

John M. Bailey

Chief Justice, Court of Appeals of Texas

John M. Bailey was a Chief Justice of the Court of Appeals of Texas, who joined the court in 2013. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 2013–2024 · 11 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2013	Court of Appeals of Texas	–	–
2015	Court of Appeals of Texas	–	–
2017	Court of Appeals of Texas	–	–
2018	Court of Appeals of Texas	–	–
2019	Court of Appeals of Texas	–	–

Education

Cisco Junior College	with highest honors	1987
Tarleton State University	Government, minor in history, summa cum laude	1989
Texas Tech University	cum laude	1992

Judicial Record

In our data, Bailey authored 49 published opinions for the court (2014–2018), plus 1 concurrence. Most cited: Taylor Dwayne Dering v. State (48 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. 50 of these were attributed to Bailey 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
2015	Taylor Dwayne Dering v. State†	465 S.W.3d 668	48
2015	Joe Louis Tienda v. State†	479 S.W.3d 863	47
2014	Steven Cole v. State· Concurrence†	454 S.W.3d 89	27
2014	in Re the State of Texas Ex Rel. Michael Munk†	448 S.W.3d 687	25
2018	Hughitt v. State†	539 S.W.3d 531	24
2018	Tex. Mun. League Intergovernmental Risk Pool v. City of Abilene†	551 S.W.3d 337	17
2015	Kevin Royce Peek v. State†	494 S.W.3d 156	14
2015	Reginald Levon Cook v. State†	460 S.W.3d 703	14
2015	David Lee Clement, Jr. v. State†	461 S.W.3d 274	12
2015	Israel Joe Ibarra v. State†	479 S.W.3d 481	11
2015	Rickey Ellison v. State†	494 S.W.3d 316	11
2014	Angela K. Jones-Jackson v. State†	443 S.W.3d 400	11
2017	Terry W. BRADLEY, Appellant v. Darlene SHAFFER, Individually, and Verlon Reid, Noleta Rice, and S. Clinton Nix, Co-Trustees of the W.S. Shaffer Family Trust, Appellees†	535 S.W.3d 242	10
2017	Castillo v. State†	517 S.W.3d 363	10
2014	Daniel Hernandez v. State†	426 S.W.3d 820	10

Showing the 15 most-cited of 50 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 John M. Bailey on?: John M. Bailey was a Chief 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).