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 2010 / Active

Lee Gabriel

Justice, Court of Appeals of Texas

Lee Gabriel is a Justice of the Court of Appeals of Texas, serving since 2010. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2010 · 16 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2010	Court of Appeals of Texas	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Gabriel authored 47 published opinions for the court (2010–2018), plus 5 dissents and 6 concurrences. Most cited: Tyra Ann Whitney v. State (64 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. 58 of these were attributed to Gabriel 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
2013	Tyra Ann Whitney v. State†	396 S.W.3d 696	64
2017	Van Der Linden v. Khan· Concurrence†	535 S.W.3d 179	60
2011	Sundance Minerals, L.P. v. Moore· Concurrence†	354 S.W.3d 507	41
2017	Carlos Enrique Casas v. State†	524 S.W.3d 921	36
2017	Branum v. State†	535 S.W.3d 217	35
2012	Jimmy Clinton Little v. State†	376 S.W.3d 217	35
2016	Armin Glenn Ingram v. State†	503 S.W.3d 745	29
2013	Lund v. Giauque†	416 S.W.3d 122	28
2011	Waters v. State†	330 S.W.3d 368	28
2018	Schmitz v. Denton Cnty. Cowboy Church†	550 S.W.3d 342	27
2015	Brand FX, LLC D/B/A Brand FX Body Company v. Curtis Rhine†	458 S.W.3d 195	27
2016	Hopper v. State†	483 S.W.3d 235	26
2010	$27,877.00 Current Money of the United States†	331 S.W.3d 110	24
2011	TTHR, L.P. v. Coffman†	338 S.W.3d 103	23
2013	William Alan Kennedy v. State†	402 S.W.3d 796	19

Showing the 15 most-cited of 58 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 Gabriel on?: Lee Gabriel is a Justice of the Court of Appeals of Texas.

Sources

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16 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).