How do judges of the Supreme Court of Texas reach the bench?

The court's current selection method is partisan election.

Supreme Court of Texas / Joined 1989 / Served to 1994

Lloyd Doggett II

Justice, Supreme Court of Texas

Lloyd Doggett II was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Texas, who joined the court in 1989. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1946 · age 80
Tenure: 1989–1994 · 5 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1989	Supreme Court of Texas	–	–

Education

The University of Texas at Austin

Judicial Record

In our data, Doggett authored 47 published opinions for the court (1989–1994), plus 36 dissents and 28 concurrences. Most cited: Walker v. Packer (8,808 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. 72 of these were attributed to Doggett 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
1992	Walker v. Packer· Dissent†	827 S.W.2d 833	8,808
1993	Texas Ass'n of Business v. Texas Air Control Board· Concurrence†	852 S.W.2d 440	5,047
1994	Transportation Insurance Co. v. Moriel· Concurrence†	879 S.W.2d 10	1,624
1989	Sterner v. Marathon Oil Co.	767 S.W.2d 686	1,465
1992	Holt Atherton Industries, Inc. v. Heine· Concurrence†	835 S.W.2d 80	1,117
1992	Stewart Title Guaranty Co. v. Sterling· Dissent†	822 S.W.2d 1	988
1991	Greater Houston Transportation Co. v. Phillips· Dissent†	801 S.W.2d 523	950
1994	Forbau Ex Rel. Miller v. Aetna Life Insurance Co.†	876 S.W.2d 132	764
1990	Moreno v. Sterling Drug, Inc.· Dissent†	787 S.W.2d 348	748
1990	Acker v. Texas Water Commission	790 S.W.2d 299	682
1991	Southwestern Bell Telephone Co. v. DeLanney· Concurrence†	809 S.W.2d 493	670
1993	Boyles v. Kerr· Dissent†	855 S.W.2d 593	598
1993	Elbaor v. Smith· Dissent†	845 S.W.2d 240	566
1994	Browning-Ferris, Inc. v. Reyna	865 S.W.2d 925	469
1993	Wornick Co. v. Casas· Concurrence†	856 S.W.2d 732	466

Showing the 15 most-cited of 111 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 Supreme Court of Texas reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is partisan election.
Which court was Lloyd Doggett II on?: Lloyd Doggett II was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Texas.

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5 years on the Supreme Court of Texas. Data as of 2026-03-31. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).