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Court of Appeals of Texas / Joined 1995 / Active

Lee Ann Dauphinot

Justice, Court of Appeals of Texas

Lee Ann Dauphinot is a Justice of the Court of Appeals of Texas, serving since 1995. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 1995 · 31 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1995	Court of Appeals of Texas	–	–

Education

Texas Christian University
Southern Methodist University

Judicial Record

In our data, Dauphinot authored 446 published opinions for the court (1995–2016), plus 97 dissents and 56 concurrences. Most cited: In the Interest of D.M. (643 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. 296 of these were attributed to Dauphinot 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
2001	In the Interest of D.M.· Concurrence†	58 S.W.3d 801	643
2009	Kim v. State· Concurrence†	283 S.W.3d 473	316
1996	Hall v. Stephenson	919 S.W.2d 454	214
1999	Beheler v. State· Concurrence†	3 S.W.3d 182	212
2008	Leachman v. Dretke	261 S.W.3d 297	186
1996	State v. Sailo	910 S.W.2d 184	177
2012	Ex Parte Mello	355 S.W.3d 827	174
1995	Gooch v. American Sling Co., Inc.†	902 S.W.2d 181	164
2006	Cotten v. Weatherford Bancshares, Inc.†	187 S.W.3d 687	162
2002	Morris v. JTM Materials, Inc.	78 S.W.3d 28	159
2007	Cherry v. State· Dissent†	215 S.W.3d 917	155
2002	Bottenfield v. State· Separate†	77 S.W.3d 349	152
2002	In re C.J.H.†	79 S.W.3d 698	148
2009	Hamilton v. Williams· Concurrence†	298 S.W.3d 334	146
1996	State Farm Lloyds v. Kessler	932 S.W.2d 732	141

Showing the 15 most-cited of 600 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 is Lee Ann Dauphinot on?: Lee Ann Dauphinot is a Justice of the Court of Appeals of Texas.

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31 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).