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 2012 / Active

Scott Field

Justice, Court of Appeals of Texas

Scott Field is a Justice of the Court of Appeals of Texas, serving since 2012. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2012 · 13 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2012	Court of Appeals of Texas	–	–

Education

Texas A & M University-College Station

Judicial Record

In our data, Field authored 45 published opinions for the court (2013–2017), plus 1 dissent and 1 concurrence. Most cited: Crystal Spurck v. Texas Department of Family and Protective Services (85 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. 47 of these were attributed to Field 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	Crystal Spurck v. Texas Department of Family and Protective Services†	396 S.W.3d 205	85
2015	Steven Gregory Sloat, Ed Bryan, Church of Scientology International, David J. Lubow, and Monty Drake v. Monique Rathbun†	513 S.W.3d 500	62
2014	Texas Department of Public Safety v. G. B. E.†	459 S.W.3d 622	56
2014	Walter Demond v. State†	452 S.W.3d 435	34
2014	Texas Commission on Environmental Quality v. Bonser-Lain†	438 S.W.3d 887	32
2013	Combs v. Texas Civil Rights Project†	410 S.W.3d 529	31
2017	McLane Co. v. Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission†	514 S.W.3d 871	29
2013	City of Georgetown, Texas v. Lower Colorado River Authority†	413 S.W.3d 803	28
2013	John H. Thomas, M.D. v. Graham Mortgage Corporation and Chris Norris, Substitute Trustee†	408 S.W.3d 581	28
2013	Oncor Electric Delivery Company LLC v. Public Utility Commission of Texas†	406 S.W.3d 253	28
2014	City of Austin v. Chandler†	428 S.W.3d 398	24
2013	Susan Combs, Comptroller of Public Accounts of the State of Texas And Greg Abbott, Attorney General of the State of Texas v. Newpark Resources, Inc.†	422 S.W.3d 46	22
2017	Texas Association of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine v. Texas Board of Chiropractic Examiners And Patricia Gilbert, Executive Director in Her Official Capacity†	524 S.W.3d 734	19
2015	DeNucci v. Matthews†	463 S.W.3d 200	19
2014	AEP Texas Commercial & Industrial Retail Ltd. Partnership v. Public Utility Commission· Dissent†	436 S.W.3d 890	19

Showing the 15 most-cited of 47 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 Scott Field on?: Scott Field is a Justice of the Court of Appeals of Texas.

Sources

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13 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).