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 2013 / Served to 2024

Nora Longoria

Presiding Justice, Court of Appeals of Texas

Nora Longoria was a Presiding Justice of the Court of Appeals of Texas, who joined the court in 2013. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 2013–2024 · 11 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2013	Court of Appeals of Texas	–	–
2019	Court of Appeals of Texas	–	–

Education

Texas A & M University-College Station	Political Science	1986
The University of Texas at Austin		1990

Judicial Record

In our data, Longoria authored 27 published opinions for the court (2013–2019). Most cited: State v. David Villarreal (60 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. 27 of these were attributed to Longoria 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	State v. David Villarreal†	476 S.W.3d 45	60
2016	Ex parte Vega†	510 S.W.3d 544	45
2015	Roland Blake Fears v. State†	479 S.W.3d 315	30
2013	San Jacinto Title Services of Corpus Christi, LLC San Jacinto Title Services of Texas, LLC And Mark Scott v. Kingsley Properties, Lp†	452 S.W.3d 343	25
2017	Baker v. Regency Nursing & Rehabilitation Centers, Inc.†	534 S.W.3d 684	17
2014	Eric Christopher Gonzalez A/K/A Eric Christobal Gonzalez v. State†	510 S.W.3d 10	16
2015	Beldon Roofing Company v. Sunchase IV Homeowners' Association, Inc.†	494 S.W.3d 231	15
2016	In the INTEREST OF P.R.W., a Child†	493 S.W.3d 738	14
2013	Arbor E & T Llc., D/B/A Rescare Workforce Services v. Lower Rio Grande Valley Workforce Development Board Inc. D/B/A Workforce Solutions†	476 S.W.3d 25	13
2015	Jamie Harvel and the Austin Police Association v. Texas Department of Insurance - Division of Workers' Compensation, and Commissioner Rod Borderlon, in His Official Capacity†	511 S.W.3d 248	12
2013	Eloy Jiovanni Perez Alcala v. State†	476 S.W.3d 1	12
2015	Gray, Ritter & Graham, PC Wolf Haldenstein Adler Freeman & Herz, LLC Neblett Beard & Arsenault, LLP Don M. Downing And Adam J. Levitt v. Goldman Phipps PLLC F/K/A Goldman Pennebaker & Phipps, PC Mikal C. Watts, PC And Murray Law Firm†	511 S.W.3d 639	9
2017	Leal v. State†	527 S.W.3d 345	7
2017	Rogers v. State†	527 S.W.3d 329	7
2014	In re Casterline†	476 S.W.3d 38	7

Showing the 15 most-cited of 27 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 Nora Longoria on?: Nora Longoria was a Presiding Justice of the Court of Appeals of Texas.

Sources

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11 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).