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The court's current selection method is partisan election.

Court of Appeals of Texas / Joined 1995 / Active

Nelda V. Rodriguez

Justice, Court of Appeals of Texas

Nelda V. Rodriguez is a Justice of the Court of Appeals of Texas, serving since 1995. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 1995 · 31 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1995	Court of Appeals of Texas	–	–

Education

Texas A & M University-Kingsville
Texas Southern University

Judicial Record

In our data, Rodriguez authored 510 published opinions for the court (1995–2012), plus 5 dissents and 2 concurrences. Most cited: Adi v. State (314 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. 158 of these were attributed to Rodriguez 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
2003	Adi v. State	94 S.W.3d 124	314
2000	Jackson v. Texas Department of Criminal Justice — Institutional Division	28 S.W.3d 811	179
2001	Thomas v. Knight	52 S.W.3d 292	163
2008	Gonzalez Soto v. State	267 S.W.3d 327	153
1999	Cano v. State	3 S.W.3d 99	136
2000	Texas Commerce Bank-Rio Grande Valley, N.A. v. Correa	28 S.W.3d 723	133
2000	Stone v. State	17 S.W.3d 348	131
2001	Adams v. H & H Meat Products, Inc.	41 S.W.3d 762	127
2006	Hernandez v. State· Dissent†	190 S.W.3d 856	124
2001	Michael v. Dyke	41 S.W.3d 746	121
2000	Munoz v. State	24 S.W.3d 427	112
2011	Cueva v. State†	339 S.W.3d 839	110
1999	Moreno v. State	1 S.W.3d 846	102
2000	State v. Cerny	28 S.W.3d 796	98
2002	Jenkins v. State	76 S.W.3d 709	97

Showing the 15 most-cited of 517 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 Nelda V. Rodriguez on?: Nelda V. Rodriguez is a Justice of the Court of Appeals of Texas.

Sources

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31 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).