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 1998 / Served to 2005

Phil Johnson

Justice, Court of Appeals of Texas

Phil Johnson was a Justice of the Court of Appeals of Texas, who joined the court in 1998. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1998–2005 · 7 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1998	Court of Appeals of Texas	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Johnson authored 131 published opinions for the court (1999–2005), plus 3 dissents and 4 concurrences. Most cited: In the Interest of M.D.S. (203 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. 67 of these were attributed to Johnson 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
1999	In the Interest of M.D.S.†	1 S.W.3d 190	203
2004	In Re Davidson†	153 S.W.3d 490	159
2002	Hagedorn v. Tisdale	73 S.W.3d 341	112
2002	Lusk v. State†	82 S.W.3d 57	91
2003	Sunnyside Feedyard, L.C. v. Metropolitan Life Insurance Co.	106 S.W.3d 169	84
2000	Barnum v. State†	7 S.W.3d 782	81
1999	Rios v. State†	990 S.W.2d 382	76
1999	McClure v. Attebury	20 S.W.3d 722	75
2002	Trostle v. Trostle	77 S.W.3d 908	74
1999	Carr v. Weiss	984 S.W.2d 753	74
2002	In Re K.S.†	76 S.W.3d 36	68
1999	Matter of Marriage of Williams	998 S.W.2d 724	63
2001	Herald v. State†	67 S.W.3d 292	62
2001	IBP, Inc. v. Klumpe	101 S.W.3d 461	60
2001	Iron Mountain Bison Ranch, Inc. v. Easley Trailer Manufacturing, Inc.†	42 S.W.3d 149	60

Showing the 15 most-cited of 138 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 Phil Johnson on?: Phil Johnson was a Justice of the Court of Appeals of Texas.

Sources

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7 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).