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 2011

Rick Strange

Justice, Court of Appeals of Texas

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

Tenure: 2005–2011 · 5 yrs

Judicial service

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

Education

Hardin-Simmons University

Judicial Record

In our data, Strange authored 14 published opinions for the court (2006–2010), plus 3 dissents and 1 concurrence. Most cited: in the Interest of C.J.O., a Child (130 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. 15 of these were attributed to Strange 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
2010	in the Interest of C.J.O., a Child†	325 S.W.3d 261	130
2007	Moon Royalty, LLC v. Boldrick Partners†	244 S.W.3d 391	41
2006	in the Interest of J.P.H. and S.P.H., Children†	196 S.W.3d 289	28
2006	Child v. Leverton· Dissent†	210 S.W.3d 694	26
2009	Bright v. Johnson· Dissent†	302 S.W.3d 483	13
2010	Kemp v. Jensen†	329 S.W.3d 866	9
2009	in the Interest of S.N., a Child†	292 S.W.3d 807	8
2009	Rough Creek Lodge Operating, L.P. v. Double K Homes, Inc.	278 S.W.3d 501	7
2010	Maxwell v. Willis	316 S.W.3d 680	6
2010	in the Interest of A.N.O., a Child†	332 S.W.3d 673	4
2010	Cole v. Anadarko Petroleum Corp.	331 S.W.3d 30	4
2010	M.T.D. Environmental, L.L.P. v. City of Midland· Concurrence†	315 S.W.3d 606	4
2006	City of Dallas v. Jim Lowenberg· Dissent†	187 S.W.3d 777	4
2007	Campbell v. State†	215 S.W.3d 544	3
2006	in the Interest of K.I.A., a Child†	205 S.W.3d 14	3

Showing the 15 most-cited of 18 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 Rick Strange on?: Rick Strange was a Justice of the Court of Appeals of Texas.

Sources

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5 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).