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 2017 / Served to 2022

Kevin Dean Jewell

Justice, Court of Appeals of Texas

Kevin Dean Jewell was a Justice of the Court of Appeals of Texas, who joined the court in 2017. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 2017–2022 · 5 yrs
Education: The of Texas at Austin 1990

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2017	Court of Appeals of Texas	–	–

Education

The University of Texas at Austin	Business Administration, with high honors	1990
University of Houston	with honors	1993

Judicial Record

In our data, Jewell authored 29 published opinions for the court (2017–2018), plus 1 dissent and 2 concurrences. Most cited: In re Harrison (90 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. 32 of these were attributed to Jewell 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
2018	In re Harrison†	557 S.W.3d 99	90
2017	Vast Construction, LLC v. CTC Contractors, LLC†	526 S.W.3d 709	59
2017	Cox Media Group, LLC v. Joselevitz†	524 S.W.3d 850	51
2017	Gonzalez v. State†	541 S.W.3d 306	41
2018	Toth v. Sears Home Improvement Prods., Inc.†	557 S.W.3d 142	36
2017	Finley v. State†	529 S.W.3d 198	25
2018	Cooper v. Trent†	551 S.W.3d 325	24
2017	Lopez v. Ensign U.S. Southern Drilling, LLC†	524 S.W.3d 836	21
2017	Shaun Adrian Jackson v. State†	530 S.W.3d 738	19
2018	Critical Path Res., Inc. v. Cuevas ex rel. Estate· Dissent†	561 S.W.3d 523	17
2017	Kreit v. Brewer & Pritchard, P.C.†	530 S.W.3d 231	17
2017	Neale v. State†	525 S.W.3d 800	17
2017	Clear Creek Independent School District v. Cotton Commerical USA, Inc. F/K/A Cottonwood Debris Company, LLC†	529 S.W.3d 569	15
2017	Lombardo v. State†	524 S.W.3d 808	15
2017	McNeel v. Citation Oil & Gas Corp.†	526 S.W.3d 750	14

Showing the 15 most-cited of 32 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 Kevin Dean Jewell on?: Kevin Dean Jewell was a Justice of the Court of Appeals of Texas.

Sources

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5 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).