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

The court's current selection method is partisan election.

Court of Appeals of Texas / Joined 2000 / Served to 2012

Martin Richter

Justice, Court of Appeals of Texas

Martin Richter was a Justice of the Court of Appeals of Texas, who joined the court in 2000. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 2000–2012 · 12 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2000	Court of Appeals of Texas	–	–

Education

University of North Texas

Judicial Record

In our data, Richter authored 211 published opinions for the court (2000–2012). Most cited: Dallas County v. Gonzales (132 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. 126 of these were attributed to Richter 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
2006	Dallas County v. Gonzales	183 S.W.3d 94	132
2001	Toles v. Toles	45 S.W.3d 252	117
2009	Esty v. Beal Bank S.S.B.†	298 S.W.3d 280	112
2008	EMC Mortgage Corp. v. Jones	252 S.W.3d 857	103
2001	Franklin v. Sherman Independent School District	53 S.W.3d 398	102
2005	G.R.A.V.I.T.Y. Enterprises, Inc. v. Reece Supply Co.	177 S.W.3d 537	98
2002	Restaurant Teams International, Inc. v. MG Securities Corp.	95 S.W.3d 336	98
2011	Fulgham v. Fischer†	349 S.W.3d 153	95
2006	McGill v. State	200 S.W.3d 325	92
2010	Centex/Vestal v. Friendship West Baptist Church†	314 S.W.3d 677	80
2009	Oliphant Financial LLC v. Angiano†	295 S.W.3d 422	78
2001	In Re Guthrie	45 S.W.3d 719	78
2012	Sink v. Sink†	364 S.W.3d 340	74
2008	Rivera v. Countrywide Home Loans, Inc.	262 S.W.3d 834	70
2008	Dulong v. Citibank (South Dakota), N.A.†	261 S.W.3d 890	69

Showing the 15 most-cited of 211 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 was Martin Richter on?: Martin Richter was a Justice of the Court of Appeals of Texas.

Sources

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12 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).