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The court's current selection method is partisan election.

Court of Appeals of Texas / Joined 2000 / Active

Rogelio Valdez

Justice, Court of Appeals of Texas

Rogelio Valdez is a Justice of the Court of Appeals of Texas, serving since 2000. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2000 · 25 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2000	Court of Appeals of Texas	–	–

Education

Texas A & M University-Kingsville
Texas Southern University

Judicial Record

In our data, Valdez authored 242 published opinions for the court (2001–2017), plus 2 dissents. Most cited: Branton v. Wood (163 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. 158 of these were attributed to Valdez 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
2003	Branton v. Wood	100 S.W.3d 645	163
2008	Sauceda v. GMAC Mortgage Corp.†	268 S.W.3d 135	138
2003	In Re C H News Company†	133 S.W.3d 642	108
2002	Zorilla v. Wahid†	83 S.W.3d 247	101
2002	El Puerto De Liverpool, S.A. De C v. v. Servi Mundo Llantero S.A. De C.V.†	82 S.W.3d 622	99
2002	Spurlock v. Schroedter†	88 S.W.3d 733	92
2006	Ozuna v. State	199 S.W.3d 601	91
2001	Thomas v. Skinner	54 S.W.3d 845	81
2001	Oasis Oil Corp. v. Koch Refining Co. L.P.†	60 S.W.3d 248	74
2008	Gonzalez v. Villarreal†	251 S.W.3d 763	71
2006	Valley Baptist Medical Center v. Stradley†	210 S.W.3d 770	62
2003	Loan Thi Hoang Ngo v. Son Due Ngo	133 S.W.3d 688	59
2006	Formosa Plastics Corp., USA v. Kajima International, Inc.	216 S.W.3d 436	57
2002	Amos v. Amos	79 S.W.3d 747	57
2002	Ramirez v. State	89 S.W.3d 222	55

Showing the 15 most-cited of 244 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 Rogelio Valdez on?: Rogelio Valdez is a Justice of the Court of Appeals of Texas.

Sources

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25 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).