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

The court's current selection method is partisan election.

Texas Court of Criminal Appeals / Joined 1969 / Served to 1969

Meade Felix Griffin

Judge, Texas Court of Criminal Appeals

Meade Felix Griffin was a Judge of the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, who joined the court in 1969. He previously served on the Supreme Court of Texas. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1897–1974
Tenure: 1969–1969

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1949	Supreme Court of Texas	–	–
1969	Texas Court of Criminal Appeals	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Griffin authored 194 published opinions for the court (1949–1969), plus 93 dissents and 11 concurrences. Most cited: Gulbenkian v. Penn (1,168 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. 129 of these were attributed to Griffin 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
1952	Gulbenkian v. Penn	252 S.W.2d 929	1,168
1967	McKisson v. Sales Affiliates, Inc.· Dissent†	416 S.W.2d 787	358
1952	Burt v. Lochausen	249 S.W.2d 194	347
1957	Biggers v. Continental Bus System, Inc.· Dissent†	303 S.W.2d 359	338
1963	Halepeska v. Callihan Interests, Inc.· Dissent†	371 S.W.2d 368	307
1951	Fitz-Gerald v. Hull	237 S.W.2d 256	300
1958	Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe Railway Co. v. McBride	322 S.W.2d 492	297
1956	Womack v. Berry· Dissent†	291 S.W.2d 677	275
1967	Gaddis v. Smith· Dissent†	417 S.W.2d 577	273
1963	Hartford Accident and Indemnity Co. v. McCardell· Concurrence†	369 S.W.2d 331	269
1965	Hart v. Van Zandt	399 S.W.2d 791	260
1962	Myers v. Gulf Coast Minerals Management Corp.· Dissent†	361 S.W.2d 193	258
1955	Aldine Independent School District v. Standley	280 S.W.2d 578	239
1954	Robert E. McKee, General Contractor v. Patterson· Dissent†	271 S.W.2d 391	226
1964	Swilley v. McCain· Dissent†	374 S.W.2d 871	213

Showing the 15 most-cited of 300 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 Texas Court of Criminal Appeals reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is partisan election.
Which court was Meade Felix Griffin on?: Meade Felix Griffin was a Judge of the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals.

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Joined the court in 1969. Data as of 2026-03-31. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).