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 2015 / Active

Russell Lloyd

Justice, Court of Appeals of Texas

Russell Lloyd is a Justice of the Court of Appeals of Texas, serving since 2015. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2015 · 11 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2015	Court of Appeals of Texas	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Lloyd authored 20 published opinions for the court (2015–2018), plus 1 dissent and 1 concurrence. Most cited: Justin Tirrell Williams v. State (274 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. 22 of these were attributed to Lloyd 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
2016	Justin Tirrell Williams v. State†	495 S.W.3d 583	274
2017	Henderson v. State†	526 S.W.3d 818	90
2015	in Re Commitment of Dennis Ray Stuteville†	463 S.W.3d 543	85
2016	Donaldson v. Texas Department of Aging & Disability Services†	495 S.W.3d 421	70
2016	www.urban.inc. v. Chris Drummond†	508 S.W.3d 657	39
2016	Elizabeth M. Trammell v. Fletcher v. Trammell, Sr.†	485 S.W.3d 571	28
2016	Texas Windstorm Insurance Association v. Randy Jones†	512 S.W.3d 545	26
2016	Freddie L. Walker v. Rissie Owens, Presiding Officer of the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles†	492 S.W.3d 787	21
2015	Entergy Corp. v. Jenkins· Concurrence†	469 S.W.3d 330	20
2017	Ashton v. State†	526 S.W.3d 490	10
2018	Pichini v. Fed. Nat'l Mortg. Ass'n†	569 S.W.3d 192	9
2017	Shahin v. Memorial Hermann Health System†	527 S.W.3d 484	8
2017	Williams v. State†	526 S.W.3d 581	7
2017	Megan Pate v. State†	518 S.W.3d 911	7
2018	De La Luz Torres v. State†	570 S.W.3d 874	6

Showing the 15 most-cited of 22 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 Russell Lloyd on?: Russell Lloyd is a Justice of the Court of Appeals of Texas.

Sources

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11 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).