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 1955 / Served to 1961

Lloyd Witten Davidson

Judge, Texas Court of Criminal Appeals

Lloyd Witten Davidson was a Judge of the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, who joined the court in 1955. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1890 · age 136
Tenure: 1955–1961 · 6 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1955	Texas Court of Criminal Appeals	–	–

Education

Samford University

Judicial Record

In our data, Davidson authored 3,850 published opinions for the court (1892–1960), plus 443 dissents and 69 concurrences. Most cited: Bird v. State (141 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. 455 of these were attributed to Davidson 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
1906	Bird v. State	91 S.W. 791	141
1898	Kugadt v. State· Separate	44 S.W. 989	104
1957	Pelham v. State	298 S.W.2d 171	94
1897	Austin v. State	40 S.W. 724	87
1948	Garcia v. State· Separate	210 S.W.2d 574	85
1958	Pittman v. State· Concurrence†	165 Tex. Crim. 569	82
1958	Washburn v. State	318 S.W.2d 627	81
1917	Herenz v. State	199 S.W. 618	81
1959	Mathis v. State	322 S.W.2d 629	76
1944	Ex Parte Halsted	182 S.W.2d 479	74
1956	Washburn v. State· Separate†	299 S.W.2d 706	72
1897	Burt v. State· Concurrence	40 S.W. 1000	72
1955	Gossett v. State· Dissent†	282 S.W.2d 59	70
1899	Black v. State	53 S.W. 116	70
1959	Miller v. State· Dissent†	330 S.W.2d 466	68

Showing the 15 most-cited of 4,603 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 Lloyd Witten Davidson on?: Lloyd Witten Davidson was a Judge of the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals.

Sources

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6 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).