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Court of Appeals of Texas / Joined 2010 / Active

Martha Hill Jamison

Justice, Court of Appeals of Texas

Martha Hill Jamison is a Justice of the Court of Appeals of Texas, serving since 2010. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2010 · 15 yrs

Judicial service

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

Judicial Record

In our data, Jamison authored 254 published opinions for the court (2011–2018), plus 10 dissents and 11 concurrences. Most cited: in the Interest of J.D., a Child (442 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. 256 of these were attributed to Jamison 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
2014	in the Interest of J.D., a Child†	436 S.W.3d 105	442
2012	in the Interest of D.R.A. and A.F., Children†	374 S.W.3d 528	299
2016	In the Interest of L.G.R.†	498 S.W.3d 195	255
2014	William Carl Wooley v. Randy Schaffer†	447 S.W.3d 71	155
2012	Manley Dewayne Johnson v. State†	389 S.W.3d 513	148
2018	In re Interest of F.E.N.†	542 S.W.3d 752	89
2012	Anthony Wert v. State†	383 S.W.3d 747	81
2012	Ted Lazarides, in His Official Capacity v. Grady Farris†	367 S.W.3d 788	74
2015	in the Interest of A.L.H., Child†	468 S.W.3d 738	67
2013	Trent Mason v. State†	416 S.W.3d 720	66
2014	Michael Dodd and 3D Global Solutions, Inc. v. Brian J. Savino†	426 S.W.3d 275	65
2014	in the Interest of S.A.H, a Minor Child†	420 S.W.3d 911	63
2011	PAS, INC. v. Engel	350 S.W.3d 602	63
2014	Pinnacle Premier Properties, Inc. and Pinnacle Realty Advisors, Inc v. Ghislain Breton, Catherine Denicourt and David Andreis†	447 S.W.3d 558	59
2014	Nancy Quested v. the City of Houston†	440 S.W.3d 275	58

Showing the 15 most-cited of 275 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 Martha Hill Jamison on?: Martha Hill Jamison is a Justice of the Court of Appeals of Texas.

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15 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).