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 2015 / Active

Kevin Yeary

Judge, Texas Court of Criminal Appeals

Kevin Yeary is a Judge of the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, serving since 2015. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2015 · 11 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2015	Texas Court of Criminal Appeals	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Yeary authored 29 published opinions for the court (2015–2019), plus 13 dissents and 18 concurrences. Most cited: Price, Eric Ray (280 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. 60 of these were attributed to Yeary 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
2015	Price, Eric Ray· Concurrence†	457 S.W.3d 437	280
2016	Palmberg, Bryan Elliott†	491 S.W.3d 804	247
2016	Marshall v. State· Concurrence†	479 S.W.3d 840	222
2016	Thomas v. State· Concurrence†	505 S.W.3d 916	187
2017	Powell v. Hocker†	516 S.W.3d 488	151
2017	Arteaga v. State· Concurrence†	521 S.W.3d 329	146
2017	Salinas, Orlando· Dissent†	523 S.W.3d 103	127
2015	Butler, Billy Dean†	459 S.W.3d 595	124
2016	Bullock v. State· Concurrence†	509 S.W.3d 921	113
2015	Wachtendorf, John Allen Jr.†	475 S.W.3d 895	108
2015	Ex parte Fournier· Dissent†	473 S.W.3d 789	94
2015	In re Allen· Concurrence†	462 S.W.3d 47	72
2018	French, Cody Darus†	563 S.W.3d 228	71
2015	State v. Johnson, Terence· Dissent†	475 S.W.3d 860	68
2016	Duran v. .State· Concurrence†	492 S.W.3d 741	67

Showing the 15 most-cited of 60 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 is Kevin Yeary on?: Kevin Yeary is a Judge of the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals.

Sources

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11 years on the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals. Data as of 2026-07-02. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).