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 1997 / Active

Karen Angelini

Justice, Court of Appeals of Texas

Karen Angelini is a Justice of the Court of Appeals of Texas, serving since 1997. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 1997 · 29 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1997	Court of Appeals of Texas	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Angelini authored 459 published opinions for the court (1997–2018), plus 14 dissents and 4 concurrences. Most cited: Moore v. K Mart Corp. (549 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. 228 of these were attributed to Angelini 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
1998	Moore v. K Mart Corp.	981 S.W.2d 266	549
2014	In the INTEREST OF D.M., a Child†	452 S.W.3d 462	243
1998	In Re Ramirez†	994 S.W.2d 682	242
2000	In the Interest of M.J.M.L.†	31 S.W.3d 347	239
2000	in the Interest of S.F., a Child†	32 S.W.3d 318	217
2006	Garza v. Garza†	217 S.W.3d 538	142
2014	Daniel James Weems v. State†	434 S.W.3d 655	116
2005	Doncaster v. Hernaiz	161 S.W.3d 594	115
2002	Lemmons v. State	75 S.W.3d 513	104
2000	Avila v. State†	18 S.W.3d 736	99
2001	Komet v. Graves†	40 S.W.3d 596	97
2011	Prize Energy Resources, L.P. v. Cliff Hoskins, Inc.	345 S.W.3d 537	92
1999	Martin v. DOSHOS I, LTD., INC.†	2 S.W.3d 350	91
1999	Gonzales v. Willis	995 S.W.2d 729	90
2007	in the Interest of T.N.S., Children†	230 S.W.3d 434	86

Showing the 15 most-cited of 477 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 Karen Angelini on?: Karen Angelini is a Justice of the Court of Appeals of Texas.

Sources

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29 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).