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The court's current selection method is partisan election.

Court of Appeals of Texas / Joined 2002 / Active

Sandee Bryan Marion

Justice, Court of Appeals of Texas

Sandee Bryan Marion is a Justice of the Court of Appeals of Texas, serving since 2002. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2002 · 24 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2002	Court of Appeals of Texas	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Marion authored 277 published opinions for the court (2002–2018), plus 14 dissents and 9 concurrences. Most cited: in the Interest of E.D., Children (420 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. 230 of these were attributed to Marion 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
2013	in the Interest of E.D., Children†	419 S.W.3d 615	420
2004	In Re Mendoza†	131 S.W.3d 167	147
2009	Ruiz v. State	293 S.W.3d 685	106
2013	in the Interest of A.H.†	414 S.W.3d 802	72
2015	in the Interest of B.R., Children†	456 S.W.3d 612	68
2015	Luis Arnaldo Baez v. State†	486 S.W.3d 592	65
2004	Ceramic Tile International, Inc. v. Balusek†	137 S.W.3d 722	63
2002	Dickerson v. State†	87 S.W.3d 632	60
2006	City of San Antonio v. El Dorado Amusement Co.†	195 S.W.3d 238	59
2003	In Re Merrill Lynch Trust Co. FSB†	123 S.W.3d 549	58
2011	Hausser v. Cuellar· Dissent†	345 S.W.3d 462	56
2009	Sony v. State	307 S.W.3d 348	51
2010	Rodriguez v. State	336 S.W.3d 294	50
2007	EOG Resources, Inc. v. Killam Oil Co., Ltd.†	239 S.W.3d 293	47
2002	Oakrock Exploration Co. v. Killam†	87 S.W.3d 685	44

Showing the 15 most-cited of 300 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 Sandee Bryan Marion on?: Sandee Bryan Marion is a Justice of the Court of Appeals of Texas.

Sources

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24 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).