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 2008 / Served to 2010

Kent C. Sullivan

Justice, Court of Appeals of Texas

Kent C. Sullivan was a Justice of the Court of Appeals of Texas, who joined the court in 2008. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 2008–2010 · 2 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2008	Court of Appeals of Texas	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Sullivan authored 26 published opinions for the court (2009–2010), plus 5 concurrences. Most cited: in the Interest of A.L.E. (219 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. 7 of these were attributed to Sullivan 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
2009	in the Interest of A.L.E.†	279 S.W.3d 424	219
2009	Thomas v. Uzoka	290 S.W.3d 437	82
2010	Redwine v. State	305 S.W.3d 360	72
2010	in the Interest of R.T.K.†	324 S.W.3d 896	63
2009	North Cypress Medical Center Operating Co. v. St. Laurent	296 S.W.3d 171	53
2010	Sharp Engineering v. Luis· Concurrence†	321 S.W.3d 748	52
2009	Virginia Power Energy Marketing, Inc. v. Apache Corp.	297 S.W.3d 397	48
2009	In Re Jacobs· Concurrence†	300 S.W.3d 35	46
2010	In Re Park Memorial Condominium Ass'n, Inc.	322 S.W.3d 447	37
2010	Wohlstein v. Aliezer	321 S.W.3d 765	32
2009	City of Pasadena v. Belle	297 S.W.3d 525	32
2009	Mbp Corp. v. Bd. Trustees Galveston Wharves	297 S.W.3d 483	31
2009	Cherokee County Cogeneration Partners, L.P. v. Dynegy Marketing & Trade	305 S.W.3d 309	26
2010	Valls v. Johanson & Fairless, L.L.P.	314 S.W.3d 624	23
2010	Miller v. State	312 S.W.3d 209	23

Showing the 15 most-cited of 31 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 Kent C. Sullivan on?: Kent C. Sullivan was a Justice of the Court of Appeals of Texas.

Sources

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2 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).