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Court of Appeals of Texas / Joined 2009 / Active

Marialyn Barnard

Justice, Court of Appeals of Texas

Marialyn Barnard is a Justice of the Court of Appeals of Texas, serving since 2009. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2009 · 17 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2009	Court of Appeals of Texas	–	–

Education

Texas A & M University-College Station

Judicial Record

In our data, Barnard authored 79 published opinions for the court (2009–2018), plus 11 dissents and 5 concurrences. Most cited: Marin Real Estate Partners, L.P. v. Vogt (117 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. 93 of these were attributed to Barnard 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
2011	Marin Real Estate Partners, L.P. v. Vogt†	373 S.W.3d 57	117
2014	Antonio Aviles v. State†	443 S.W.3d 291	74
2012	Antonio Aviles v. State†	385 S.W.3d 110	58
2011	Hausser v. Cuellar†	345 S.W.3d 462	56
2012	Roscol Hines v. State†	383 S.W.3d 615	52
2009	Sony v. State†	307 S.W.3d 348	51
2012	Neptali Armando Orellana v. State†	381 S.W.3d 645	49
2014	Estate of Paul Edward Check†	438 S.W.3d 829	45
2011	Mayberry v. State†	351 S.W.3d 507	42
2011	ESTATE OF Gilbert M. DENMAN Jr., Deceased†	362 S.W.3d 134	41
2010	Lesieur v. Fryar†	325 S.W.3d 242	40
2013	Gonzalo Artemio Lopez v. Lydia Serna and Galan G., Correctional Officers and Individually†	414 S.W.3d 890	39
2011	Monroe v. Monroe†	358 S.W.3d 711	38
2009	Lemon v. State†	298 S.W.3d 705	38
2012	Ex Parte Mark Anthony Gonzales†	383 S.W.3d 160	34

Showing the 15 most-cited of 95 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 Marialyn Barnard on?: Marialyn Barnard is a Justice of the Court of Appeals of Texas.

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17 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).