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 1992 / Served to 2016

Lawrence Meyers

Judge, Texas Court of Criminal Appeals

Lawrence Meyers was a Judge of the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, who joined the court in 1992. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1947 · age 79
Tenure: 1992–2016 · 24 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1992	Texas Court of Criminal Appeals	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Meyers authored 330 published opinions for the court (1993–2016), plus 192 dissents and 109 concurrences. Most cited: Bledsoe v. State (6,557 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. 398 of these were attributed to Meyers 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
2005	Bledsoe v. State†	178 S.W.3d 824	6,557
1997	Guzman v. State· Concurrence†	955 S.W.2d 85	6,556
1999	Thompson v. State· Dissent†	9 S.W.3d 808	6,146
1996	Clewis v. State· Concurrence†	922 S.W.2d 126	5,788
2007	Hooper v. State†	214 S.W.3d 9	5,494
1997	Malik v. State· Concurrence†	953 S.W.2d 234	4,984
1997	Cain v. State†	958 S.W.2d 404	3,887
1996	Olivo v. State	918 S.W.2d 519	3,610
2000	Carmouche v. State†	10 S.W.3d 323	3,205
1998	Mosley v. State· Dissent†	983 S.W.2d 249	2,969
2000	Wesbrook v. State· Concurrence†	29 S.W.3d 103	2,816
2004	Zuniga v. State	144 S.W.3d 477	2,472
1996	Jones v. State	944 S.W.2d 642	2,034
2003	Rylander v. State· Dissent†	101 S.W.3d 107	1,786
2008	Lancon v. State	253 S.W.3d 699	1,537

Showing the 15 most-cited of 633 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 Lawrence Meyers on?: Lawrence Meyers was a Judge of the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals.

Sources

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24 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).