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 2019 / Served to 2024

Sarah Beth Landau

Justice, Court of Appeals of Texas

Sarah Beth Landau was a Justice of the Court of Appeals of Texas, who joined the court in 2019. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 2019–2024 · 5 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2019	Court of Appeals of Texas	–	–

Education

University of Minnesota-Minneapolis	Political Science, with honors	1993
Columbia University in the City of New York		1998

Judicial Record

In our data, Landau authored 2 published opinions for the court (2019). Most cited: In re A.M. (20 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 Landau 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
2019	In re A.M.†	577 S.W.3d 653	20
2019	Hughes v. Giammanco†	579 S.W.3d 672	6

Showing the 2 most-cited of 2 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 was Sarah Beth Landau on?: Sarah Beth Landau was a Justice of the Court of Appeals of Texas.

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5 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).