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 2026

Rebeca Carrillo Martinez

Chief Justice, Court of Appeals of Texas

Rebeca Carrillo Martinez was a Chief Justice of the Court of Appeals of Texas, who joined the court in 2013. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 2013–2026 · 13 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2013	Court of Appeals of Texas	–	–
2019	Court of Appeals of Texas	–	–
2021	Court of Appeals of Texas	–	–

Education

Southern Methodist University	Political Science, Criminal Justice & Philosophy	1989
Boston University		1992

Judicial Record

In our data, Martinez authored 52 published opinions for the court (2013–2017), plus 13 dissents and 2 concurrences. Most cited: In the INTEREST OF D.M., a Child (243 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 Martinez 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	In the INTEREST OF D.M., a Child· Dissent†	452 S.W.3d 462	243
2013	Ex Parte Christopher Ruben Zavala†	421 S.W.3d 227	39
2015	In the Interest of D.M.B.· Dissent†	467 S.W.3d 100	33
2016	Amateur Athletic Union of the United States, Inc., Paul Campbell, Rod Seaford, and Charles Oliver v. Augustus Bray†	499 S.W.3d 96	30
2015	Sean Lebo v. State†	474 S.W.3d 402	26
2016	In re Bustamante· Dissent†	510 S.W.3d 732	21
2013	Fredericksburg Care Co. v. Perez†	406 S.W.3d 313	20
2013	Robert Lyonell Phillips v. State†	401 S.W.3d 282	20
2013	Fredericksburg Care Co. v. Lira†	407 S.W.3d 810	19
2016	In re E.K.G.†	487 S.W.3d 670	18
2015	John Christopher Dominguez v. State· Dissent†	467 S.W.3d 521	18
2017	Oscar Leo Quintanilla v. Andrew Bradford West†	534 S.W.3d 34	17
2016	Lenz v. Bank of America, N.A.†	510 S.W.3d 667	17
2013	Bobby Moreno v. State†	413 S.W.3d 119	17
2013	Williamsburg Care Co. v. Acosta†	406 S.W.3d 711	17

Showing the 15 most-cited of 67 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 Rebeca Carrillo Martinez on?: Rebeca Carrillo Martinez was a Chief Justice of the Court of Appeals of Texas.

Sources

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13 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).