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 2005 / Served to 2012

Rebecca Simmons

Justice, Court of Appeals of Texas

Rebecca Simmons was a Justice of the Court of Appeals of Texas, who joined the court in 2005. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 2005–2012 · 7 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2005	Court of Appeals of Texas	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Simmons authored 71 published opinions for the court (1906–2012), plus 11 dissents and 4 concurrences. Most cited: Abdygapparova v. State (151 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. 68 of these were attributed to Simmons 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
2007	Abdygapparova v. State†	243 S.W.3d 191	151
2006	Lewis v. State†	195 S.W.3d 205	113
2006	Hargrove v. State· Dissent†	211 S.W.3d 379	103
2006	Loeffler v. Lytle Independent School District†	211 S.W.3d 331	88
2008	Ski Masters of Texas, LLC v. Heinemeyer†	269 S.W.3d 662	80
2006	in the Interest of M.N v., Children†	216 S.W.3d 833	64
2012	Flying J Inc. v. Meda, Inc. D/B/A AAA Auger†	373 S.W.3d 680	61
2008	Acevedo v. State†	255 S.W.3d 162	58
2010	Berkley v. State	298 S.W.3d 712	56
2006	Wilson v. State†	195 S.W.3d 193	56
2006	In the Interest of S.E.†	203 S.W.3d 14	51
2007	Killeen v. Lighthouse Electrical Contractors, L.P.†	248 S.W.3d 343	40
2009	Lemon v. State	298 S.W.3d 705	38
2006	Hausman v. Hausman†	199 S.W.3d 38	38
2011	In Re Guardianship of Cem-K.	341 S.W.3d 68	37

Showing the 15 most-cited of 86 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 Rebecca Simmons on?: Rebecca Simmons 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).