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 2014 / Served to 2026

Leanne Johnson

Justice, Court of Appeals of Texas

Leanne Johnson was a Justice of the Court of Appeals of Texas, who joined the court in 2014. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 2014–2026 · 12 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2014	Court of Appeals of Texas	–	–
2015	Court of Appeals of Texas	–	–
2021	Court of Appeals of Texas	–	–

Education

Southern Arkansas University Main Campus		1983
University of Arkansas		1986

Judicial Record

In our data, Johnson authored 9 published opinions for the court (2014–2017), plus 5 dissents and 1 concurrence. Most cited: State v. Ester Aboytes Anderson (48 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. 15 of these were attributed to Johnson 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
2014	State v. Ester Aboytes Anderson†	445 S.W.3d 895	48
2016	Booth v. Kontomitras†	485 S.W.3d 461	28
2016	In re Commitment of May†	500 S.W.3d 515	26
2016	the City of Cleveland, Niki Coats, in His Official Capacity as Mayor of the City of Cleveland and Angela Smith, in Her Official Capacity as City Secretary of the City of Cleveland v. Keep Cleveland Safe†	500 S.W.3d 438	11
2017	Jefferson County v. Stines· Dissent†	523 S.W.3d 691	8
2014	Ex Parte David Lee Victorick†	453 S.W.3d 5	8
2017	Steven McCraw v. C.I.· Dissent†	525 S.W.3d 701	5
2017	Healthsouth Rehab. Hosp. of Beaumont, LLC v. Abshire†	561 S.W.3d 193	5
2014	in Re Stephen Louis Hartman· Dissent†	429 S.W.3d 680	5
2017	City of Willis v. Garcia†	523 S.W.3d 729	4
2015	Sutton v. State· Dissent†	469 S.W.3d 607	4
2016	in Re Clarence D. Brown· Dissent†	501 S.W.3d 116	2
2016	City of Magnolia v. Smedley†	533 S.W.3d 1	1
2015	First United Pentecostal Church of Beaumont D/B/A the Anchor of Beaumont, F/K/A New Life Tabernacle v. Leigh Parker· Concurrence†	520 S.W.3d 53	1
2014	Jefferson County, Texas v. April Swain†	452 S.W.3d 881	1

Showing the 15 most-cited of 15 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 Leanne Johnson on?: Leanne Johnson was a Justice of the Court of Appeals of Texas.

Sources

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12 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).