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The court's current selection method is partisan election.

Supreme Court of Texas / Joined 1975 / Served to 1976

Ross E. Doughty

Justice, Supreme Court of Texas

Ross E. Doughty was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Texas, who joined the court in 1975. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1910–2000
Tenure: 1975–1976 · 1 yr

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1975	Supreme Court of Texas	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Doughty authored 9 published opinions for the court (1975–1976), plus 2 dissents. Most cited: Industrial Foundation of the South v. Texas Industrial Accident Board (247 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. 3 of these were attributed to Doughty 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
1976	Industrial Foundation of the South v. Texas Industrial Accident Board†	540 S.W.2d 668	247
1976	Colonial Savings Ass'n v. Taylor	544 S.W.2d 116	192
1976	Kelley v. Rinkle	532 S.W.2d 947	140
1976	Republic National Life Insurance Co. v. Heyward	536 S.W.2d 549	130
1975	Humane Society of Austin & Travis County v. Austin National Bank	531 S.W.2d 574	62
1975	Gregory v. Texas Employers Insurance Ass'n	530 S.W.2d 105	47
1976	Griffin v. Ellinger	538 S.W.2d 97	36
1976	U. S. Enterprises, Inc. v. Dauley· Dissent†	535 S.W.2d 623	33
1976	Rogers v. Searle	544 S.W.2d 114	27
1976	Gibson Products Co., Inc. v. State· Dissent†	545 S.W.2d 128	13
1976	IND. FOUNDATION, ETC. v. Texas Ind. Acc. Bd.	540 S.W.2d 668	10

Showing the 11 most-cited of 11 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 Supreme Court of Texas reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is partisan election.
Which court was Ross E. Doughty on?: Ross E. Doughty was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Texas.

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1 year on the Supreme Court of Texas. Data as of 2026-03-31. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).