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The court's current selection method is partisan election.

Court of Appeals of Texas / Joined 2003 / Served to 2012

Phylis J. Speedlin

Justice, Court of Appeals of Texas

Phylis J. Speedlin was a Justice of the Court of Appeals of Texas, who joined the court in 2003. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 2003–2012 · 9 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2003	Court of Appeals of Texas	–	–

Education

University of the Incarnate Word

Judicial Record

In our data, Speedlin authored 112 published opinions for the court (2003–2012), plus 3 dissents and 2 concurrences. Most cited: Hargrove v. State (103 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. 100 of these were attributed to Speedlin 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
2006	Hargrove v. State†	211 S.W.3d 379	103
2007	Dossett v. State†	216 S.W.3d 7	94
2012	in the Interest of E.G., Minor Children†	373 S.W.3d 129	92
2004	Tagle v. Galvan· Concurrence†	155 S.W.3d 510	79
2006	De Los Santos v. State	219 S.W.3d 71	75
2006	Lewis v. State†	191 S.W.3d 225	74
2006	Vela v. Wagner & Brown, Ltd.†	203 S.W.3d 37	66
2005	MG Building Materials, Ltd. v. Moses Lopez Custom Homes, Inc.†	179 S.W.3d 51	66
2003	Blake v. Intco Investments of Texas, Inc.†	123 S.W.3d 521	60
2004	Grinnell v. Munson†	137 S.W.3d 706	57
2003	Villanueva v. Gonzalez†	123 S.W.3d 461	55
2003	Villegas v. Texas Department of Transportation†	120 S.W.3d 26	50
2003	City of Fredericksburg v. Bopp†	126 S.W.3d 218	49
2006	In Re Mask†	198 S.W.3d 231	43
2008	Texas Department of Public Safety v. Gonzales†	276 S.W.3d 88	42

Showing the 15 most-cited of 117 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 Phylis J. Speedlin on?: Phylis J. Speedlin was a Justice of the Court of Appeals of Texas.

Sources

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9 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).