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 2020 / Active

Rebeca Aizpuru Huddle

Justice, Supreme Court of Texas

Rebeca Aizpuru Huddle is a Justice of the Supreme Court of Texas, serving since 2020. She previously served on the Court of Appeals of Texas. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2020 · 5 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2011	Court of Appeals of Texas	–	–
2020	Supreme Court of Texas	–	–

Education

Stanford University	Political Science	1995
The University of Texas at Austin	with honors	1999

Judicial Record

In our data, Huddle authored 107 published opinions for the court (2012–2026), plus 1 dissent and 7 concurrences. Most cited: James v. Calkins (80 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. 97 of these were attributed to Huddle 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	James v. Calkins†	446 S.W.3d 135	80
2015	Keith Ladale Wilson v. State· Concurrence†	473 S.W.3d 889	75
2014	Edward Nwokedi and 1002 Gemini Interests, LLC v. Unlimited Restoration Specialists, Inc.†	428 S.W.3d 191	55
2012	Cantu v. State†	395 S.W.3d 202	54
2014	Country Community Timberlake Village, L.P. v. HMW Special Utility District of Harris†	438 S.W.3d 661	49
2013	New York Party Shuttle, LLC v. John Bilello†	414 S.W.3d 206	46
2012	Johnny Louis Torres, Jr v. State†	391 S.W.3d 179	43
2014	Nathan G. Mims v. State†	434 S.W.3d 265	41
2016	Justin Jordan v. Benjamin Hall, III†	510 S.W.3d 194	38
2016	Samuel Espinoza Rodriguez v. State†	491 S.W.3d 18	37
2016	In re H.Y.†	512 S.W.3d 467	34
2016	Bob Deuell v. Texas Right to Life Committee, Inc.†	508 S.W.3d 679	34
2013	Kevin Conlin and Kathryn Conlin v. Darrell Haun and Solarcraft, Inc.†	419 S.W.3d 682	33
2013	P.W. v. Department of Family and Protective Services†	403 S.W.3d 471	32
2013	James J. Flanagan Shipping Corporation v. Del Monte Fresh Produce N.A., Inc.†	403 S.W.3d 360	32

Showing the 15 most-cited of 115 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 is Rebeca Aizpuru Huddle on?: Rebeca Aizpuru Huddle is a Justice of the Supreme Court of Texas.

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5 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).