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 2009 / Active

Michael C. Massengale

Justice, Court of Appeals of Texas

Michael C. Massengale 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

Dartmouth College

Judicial Record

In our data, Massengale authored 161 published opinions for the court (2009–2018), plus 8 dissents and 18 concurrences. Most cited: In the INTEREST OF A.M. & A.M., Children (181 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. 164 of these were attributed to Massengale 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
2016	In the INTEREST OF A.M. & A.M., Children†	495 S.W.3d 573	181
2017	In the Interest of J.M.T.· Concurrence†	519 S.W.3d 258	178
2013	the Better Business Bureau of Metropolitan Houston, Inc. v. John Moore Services, Inc. and John Moore Renovation, LLC†	441 S.W.3d 345	176
2012	in the Interest of A.C., a Child†	394 S.W.3d 633	169
2010	In re V.V.· Concurrence†	349 S.W.3d 548	148
2013	Jose Juan Cardenas v. State†	403 S.W.3d 377	78
2010	Montalvo v. State	315 S.W.3d 588	72
2011	Pitts & Collard, L.L.P. v. Schechter†	369 S.W.3d 301	69
2013	the Peterson Group, Inc., PGI Development Group, LP, and Wellington Yu v. PLTQ Lotus Group, L.P. and Cubo Group, L.L.C.†	417 S.W.3d 46	68
2012	Morris v. American Home Mortgage Servicing, Inc.	360 S.W.3d 32	64
2011	Jones v. State	338 S.W.3d 725	60
2014	CCC Group, Inc. v. South Central Cement, Ltd.†	450 S.W.3d 191	58
2011	Schlumberger Technology Corp. v. Baker Hughes Inc.	355 S.W.3d 791	56
2011	Avilez v. State	333 S.W.3d 661	53
2013	Eun Bok Lee v. Ho Chang Lee†	411 S.W.3d 95	52

Showing the 15 most-cited of 187 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 Michael C. Massengale on?: Michael C. Massengale is a Justice of the Court of Appeals of Texas.

Sources

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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).