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 2019 / Served to 2024

Julie A. Countiss

Justice, Court of Appeals of Texas

Julie A. Countiss was a Justice of the Court of Appeals of Texas, who joined the court in 2019. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 2019–2024 · 5 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2019	Court of Appeals of Texas	–	–

Education

Southern Methodist University	History	1993
University of Houston		2002

Judicial Record

In our data, Countiss authored 1 published opinion for the court (2019). Most cited: Amboree v. Bonton (11 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. 1 of these was attributed to Countiss 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
2019	Amboree v. Bonton†	575 S.W.3d 38	11

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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 Julie A. Countiss on?: Julie A. Countiss was a Justice of the Court of Appeals of Texas.

Sources

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5 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).