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The court's current selection method is partisan election.

Court of Appeals of Texas / Joined 1999 / Active

Kem Thompson Frost

Justice, Court of Appeals of Texas

Kem Thompson Frost is a Justice of the Court of Appeals of Texas, serving since 1999. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 1999 · 27 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1999	Court of Appeals of Texas	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Frost authored 490 published opinions for the court (1999–2018), plus 100 dissents and 116 concurrences. Most cited: In the Interest of U.P., a Child (435 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. 441 of these were attributed to Frost 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
2003	In the Interest of U.P., a Child· Concurrence†	105 S.W.3d 222	435
2000	Dolcefino v. Randolph	19 S.W.3d 906	362
2000	Stults v. State	23 S.W.3d 198	354
2005	San Saba Energy, L.P. v. Crawford	171 S.W.3d 323	316
2008	Bargas v. State	252 S.W.3d 876	283
2008	Canton-Carter v. Baylor College of Medicine· Concurrence†	271 S.W.3d 928	276
2002	Jensen v. State	66 S.W.3d 528	270
1999	Blan v. Ali	7 S.W.3d 741	269
2000	Webb v. State	36 S.W.3d 164	214
2017	In the Interest of E.R.W.†	528 S.W.3d 251	210
2004	in the Interest of D.E.S, A.L.G, C.W.M.G, II, and M.P.G., Children†	135 S.W.3d 326	192
2001	Gregory v. State	56 S.W.3d 164	185
2002	Baty v. ProTech Insurance Agency	63 S.W.3d 841	184
2009	Ex Parte Wolf	296 S.W.3d 160	176
2000	King v. State	17 S.W.3d 7	175

Showing the 15 most-cited of 707 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 Kem Thompson Frost on?: Kem Thompson Frost is a Justice of the Court of Appeals of Texas.

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27 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).