How do judges of the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals reach the bench?

The court's current selection method is partisan election.

Texas Court of Criminal Appeals / Joined 1953 / Served to 1970

Kenneth Koch Woodley

Judge, Texas Court of Criminal Appeals

Kenneth Koch Woodley was a Judge of the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, who joined the court in 1953. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1892 · age 134
Tenure: 1953–1970 · 17 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1953	Texas Court of Criminal Appeals	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Woodley authored 1,873 published opinions for the court (1949–1971), plus 134 dissents and 64 concurrences. Most cited: Ex Parte Young (7,943 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. 1,387 of these were attributed to Woodley 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
1967	Ex Parte Young	418 S.W.2d 824	7,943
1960	Ex Parte Rodriguez	334 S.W.2d 294	3,276
1961	Workman v. State	343 S.W.2d 446	309
1964	Ex Parte Caldwell· Separate†	383 S.W.2d 587	217
1969	Brumfield v. State· Concurrence†	445 S.W.2d 732	200
1961	Gaskin v. State· Separate†	353 S.W.2d 467	154
1970	Campbell v. State· Concurrence†	456 S.W.2d 918	144
1964	Lopez v. State· Concurrence†	384 S.W.2d 345	131
1967	Taylor v. State	421 S.W.2d 403	126
1961	State Ex Rel. Wilson v. Briggs	351 S.W.2d 892	120
1967	De La Rosa v. State· Dissent†	414 S.W.2d 668	118
1957	Cawley v. State	310 S.W.2d 340	117
1969	Culmore v. State· Dissent†	447 S.W.2d 915	102
1954	Dempsey v. State	266 S.W.2d 875	98
1968	Barbee v. State· Separate†	432 S.W.2d 78	95

Showing the 15 most-cited of 2,257 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 Texas Court of Criminal Appeals reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is partisan election.
Which court was Kenneth Koch Woodley on?: Kenneth Koch Woodley was a Judge of the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals.

Sources

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17 years on the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals. Data as of 2026-03-31. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).