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The court's current selection method is partisan election.

Court of Appeals of Texas / Joined 2009 / Served to 2022

Lana Rolf Myers

Presiding Justice, Court of Appeals of Texas

Lana Rolf Myers was a Presiding Justice of the Court of Appeals of Texas, who joined the court in 2009. She previously served on the Texas 203rd Judicial District Court. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1954 · age 72
Tenure: 2009–2022 · 13 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1995	Texas 203rd Judicial District Court	–	–
2009	Court of Appeals of Texas	–	–
2011	Court of Appeals of Texas	–	–
2017	Court of Appeals of Texas	–	–

Education

Baylor University	Fine Arts, magna cum laude	1976
Baylor University		1981

Judicial Record

In our data, Myers authored 95 published opinions for the court (2010–2017). Most cited: Williams v. BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON (134 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. 87 of these were attributed to Myers 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
2010	Williams v. BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON†	315 S.W.3d 925	134
2010	Shutter v. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.†	318 S.W.3d 467	86
2014	Woodhaven Partners, LTD v. Shamoun & Norman, LLP F/K/A Shoumoun Klatsky Norman†	422 S.W.3d 821	82
2010	McAfee, Inc. v. Agilysys, Inc.†	316 S.W.3d 820	76
2017	Garner v. State†	523 S.W.3d 266	73
2013	Bob Montgomery Chevrolet, Inc. v. Dent Zone Companies†	409 S.W.3d 181	70
2013	Flood, John C, of DC, Inc. John C. Flood., Melville Davis and Robert Smiley†	408 S.W.3d 645	61
2011	S & I Management, Inc. v. Sungju Choi†	331 S.W.3d 849	54
2010	Halmos v. Bombardier Aerospace Corp.	314 S.W.3d 606	54
2011	Strong v. Strong†	350 S.W.3d 759	53
2013	Wilhoite, Sandra Lynn v. Sims, Linda Diane†	401 S.W.3d 752	41
2015	Jeffrey Leibovitz and Sequoia Frankford Springs 23, L.P. v. Sequoia Real Estate Holdings, L.P.†	465 S.W.3d 331	35
2012	Examination Management Services, Inc. v. Kersh Risk Management, Inc.†	367 S.W.3d 835	35
2015	Stephen W. Clark v. Dillard's Inc. and the Campbell Agency†	460 S.W.3d 714	33
2012	KC Smash 01, LLC v. Gerdes, Hendrichson, Ltd.†	384 S.W.3d 389	31

Showing the 15 most-cited of 95 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 Lana Rolf Myers on?: Lana Rolf Myers was a Presiding Justice of the Court of Appeals of Texas.

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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).