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 2013 / Served to 2026

Ken P. Wise

Presiding Justice, Court of Appeals of Texas

Ken P. Wise was a Presiding Justice of the Court of Appeals of Texas, who joined the court in 2013. He previously served on the Texas 152nd Judicial District Court and Texas 334th Judicial District Court. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 2013–2026 · 13 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2002	Texas 152nd Judicial District Court	–	–
2011	Texas 334th Judicial District Court	–	–
2013	Court of Appeals of Texas	–	–
2015	Court of Appeals of Texas	–	–
2021	Court of Appeals of Texas	–	–

Education

Texas A & M University-College Station		1991
University of Houston		1994

Judicial Record

In our data, Wise authored 77 published opinions for the court (2008–2019), plus 1 dissent. Most cited: In the Interest of A.L.H. (125 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. 77 of these were attributed to Wise 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
2017	In the Interest of A.L.H.†	515 S.W.3d 60	125
2015	in the Estate of Rosa Elvia Guerrero†	465 S.W.3d 693	112
2015	Harris v. State†	475 S.W.3d 395	73
2016	Ajaz R. Siddiqui, Najeeb Siddiqui and Suncoat Environmental and Construction, Inc. v. Fancy Bites, L.L.C., Quick Eats L.L.C., Farhan S. Qureshi and Syed Khalid Ali†	504 S.W.3d 349	42
2014	Devon Energy Production Company, L.P. v. KCS Resources, LLC†	450 S.W.3d 203	42
2016	Randy L. Yeske v. Piazza Del Arte, Inc., Swiss International, Inc., D/B/A Swiss Builders, Tino Bekardi, David E. Kassab and Paul Garnney†	513 S.W.3d 652	41
2018	Donald v. State†	543 S.W.3d 466	40
2014	in the Matter of the Marriage of Isis Spencer Butts and Rickey Sharnard Butts†	444 S.W.3d 147	37
2019	In re Flanigan†	578 S.W.3d 634	33
2018	Fang v. State†	544 S.W.3d 923	33
2018	In re Interest of R.H.W.†	542 S.W.3d 724	33
2014	Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation v. Trinh Pham, Katherine Crawford & Gary Block†	449 S.W.3d 230	32
2017	James Larry Merrit v. State†	529 S.W.3d 549	31
2016	PNS Stores, Inc. v. Munguia†	484 S.W.3d 503	30
2015	Janna Russell v. David Christopher Russell†	478 S.W.3d 36	29

Showing the 15 most-cited of 78 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 Ken P. Wise on?: Ken P. Wise was a Presiding Justice of the Court of Appeals of Texas.

Sources

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13 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).