How do judges of the Supreme Court of Texas reach the bench?

The court's current selection method is partisan election.

Supreme Court of Texas / Joined 1984 / Served to 1998

Raul A. Gonzalez

Justice, Supreme Court of Texas

Raul A. Gonzalez was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Texas, who joined the court in 1984. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1940 · age 86
Tenure: 1984–1998 · 14 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1984	Supreme Court of Texas	–	–

Education

The University of Texas at Austin

Judicial Record

In our data, Gonzalez authored 126 published opinions for the court (1984–1999), plus 85 dissents and 86 concurrences. Most cited: Walker v. Packer (8,808 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. 210 of these were attributed to Gonzalez 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
1992	Walker v. Packer· Concurrence†	827 S.W.2d 833	8,808
1997	Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, Inc. v. Havner· Concurrence†	953 S.W.2d 706	3,583
1986	Pool v. Ford Motor Co.· Concurrence†	715 S.W.2d 629	2,766
1998	Maritime Overseas Corp. v. Ellis· Concurrence†	971 S.W.2d 402	1,981
1993	McConnell v. Southside Independent School District· Concurrence†	858 S.W.2d 337	1,797
1996	EI Du Pont De Nemours & Co. v. Robinson†	923 S.W.2d 549	1,699
1989	Carr v. Brasher	776 S.W.2d 567	1,433
1995	Doe v. Boys Clubs of Greater Dallas, Inc.†	907 S.W.2d 472	1,206
1991	TransAmerican Natural Gas Corp. v. Powell· Concurrence†	811 S.W.2d 913	1,144
1991	Beaumont Bank, N.A. v. Buller· Concurrence†	806 S.W.2d 223	1,110
1992	State Department of Highways & Public Transportation v. Payne· Separate†	838 S.W.2d 235	1,108
1995	Burroughs Wellcome Co. v. Crye· Concurrence†	907 S.W.2d 497	1,065
1993	State Farm Fire & Casualty Co. v. S.S.· Dissent†	858 S.W.2d 374	1,051
1992	Barr v. Resolution Trust Corp. Ex Rel. Sunbelt Federal Savings	837 S.W.2d 627	991
1992	Stewart Title Guaranty Co. v. Sterling	822 S.W.2d 1	988

Showing the 15 most-cited of 298 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 Supreme Court of Texas reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is partisan election.
Which court was Raul A. Gonzalez on?: Raul A. Gonzalez was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Texas.

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14 years on the Supreme Court of Texas. Data as of 2026-03-31. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).