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Supreme Court of Texas / Joined 1982 / Served to 1982

Ruby Kless Sondock

Justice, Supreme Court of Texas

Ruby Kless Sondock was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Texas, who joined the court in 1982. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1926 · age 100
Tenure: 1982–1982

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1982	Supreme Court of Texas	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Sondock authored 5 published opinions for the court (1982), plus 1 dissent and 1 concurrence. Most cited: Vallone v. Vallone (269 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. 2 of these were attributed to Sondock 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
1982	Vallone v. Vallone· Dissent†	644 S.W.2d 455	269
1982	Hanks v. GAB Business Services, Inc.	644 S.W.2d 707	119
1982	G-W-L, Inc. v. Robichaux	643 S.W.2d 392	92
1982	University Savings Ass'n v. Springwoods Shopping Center	644 S.W.2d 705	58
1982	Hunt v. Heaton· Concurrence†	643 S.W.2d 677	51
1982	Peveto v. Starkey	645 S.W.2d 770	46
1982	Osuna v. Southern Pacific Railroad	641 S.W.2d 229	25

Showing the 7 most-cited of 7 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 Ruby Kless Sondock on?: Ruby Kless Sondock was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Texas.

Sources

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Joined the court in 1982. Data as of 2026-03-31. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).