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 2008 / Active

Rex Davis

Justice, Court of Appeals of Texas

Rex Davis is a Justice of the Court of Appeals of Texas, serving since 2008. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2008 · 18 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2008	Court of Appeals of Texas	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Davis authored 419 published opinions for the court (1916–2019), plus 5 dissents and 4 concurrences. Most cited: Wilson v. State (537 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. 54 of these were attributed to Davis 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
1997	Wilson v. State	955 S.W.2d 693	537
1996	Hickson v. Moya	926 S.W.2d 397	439
1997	In Interest of DLN	958 S.W.2d 934	215
1998	Fowler v. State	958 S.W.2d 853	148
1998	State v. Tarvin	972 S.W.2d 910	146
1996	Brumbalow v. State	933 S.W.2d 298	138
2002	Cochran v. State	78 S.W.3d 20	130
1997	Yates v. State	941 S.W.2d 357	130
1998	Reeves v. State	969 S.W.2d 471	124
1997	Hitzelberger v. Samedan Oil Corp.	948 S.W.2d 497	119
1997	Williams v. State	946 S.W.2d 886	108
2012	In the Interest of A.M.†	385 S.W.3d 74	106
1998	Spangler v. Texas Department of Protective & Regulatory Services	962 S.W.2d 253	102
1998	Brush v. Reata Oil & Gas Corp.	984 S.W.2d 720	96
1998	State v. Gill	967 S.W.2d 540	87

Showing the 15 most-cited of 430 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 is Rex Davis on?: Rex Davis is a Justice of the Court of Appeals of Texas.

Sources

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18 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).