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The court's current selection method is partisan election.

Court of Appeals of Texas / Joined 2005 / Active

Mackey K. Hancock

Justice, Court of Appeals of Texas

Mackey K. Hancock is a Justice of the Court of Appeals of Texas, serving since 2005. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2005 · 21 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2005	Court of Appeals of Texas	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Hancock authored 209 published opinions for the court (2005–2017), plus 1 dissent. Most cited: in the Interest of K.C.B. a Child (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. 208 of these were attributed to Hancock 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
2009	in the Interest of K.C.B. a Child†	280 S.W.3d 888	141
2009	Mayer v. State†	274 S.W.3d 898	122
2008	In Re Layton†	257 S.W.3d 794	103
2013	in the Interest of D.N. and D.N., Children†	405 S.W.3d 863	63
2012	in the Interest of I.G., I.G. and I.G., Children†	383 S.W.3d 763	59
2014	Jesse Thomas Sutherland v. State†	436 S.W.3d 28	55
2011	Griego v. State†	345 S.W.3d 742	50
2007	Wilkins v. State†	279 S.W.3d 701	50
2013	Montenegro v. Ocwen Loan Servicing, LLC†	419 S.W.3d 561	44
2016	Bezerra v. State†	485 S.W.3d 133	43
2009	Weinn v. State†	281 S.W.3d 633	43
2010	Armstrong v. State†	320 S.W.3d 479	39
2006	Hernandez v. State†	205 S.W.3d 555	39
2013	Cecil R. McDonald v. State†	401 S.W.3d 360	38
2007	Harper v. State†	217 S.W.3d 672	38

Showing the 15 most-cited of 210 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 Mackey K. Hancock on?: Mackey K. Hancock is a Justice of the Court of Appeals of Texas.

Sources

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21 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).