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The court's current selection method is partisan election.

Court of Appeals of Texas / Joined 2001 / Served to 2002

Sherry J. Radack

Justice, Court of Appeals of Texas

Sherry J. Radack was a Justice of the Court of Appeals of Texas, who joined the court in 2001. She previously served on the Texas 55th Judicial District Court and Texas 415th Judicial District Court. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 2001–2002 · 1 yr

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1999	Texas 55th Judicial District Court	–	–
2001	Court of Appeals of Texas	–	–
2003	Texas 415th Judicial District Court	–	–
2005	Texas 415th Judicial District Court	–	–
2011	Texas 415th Judicial District Court	–	–
2017	Texas 415th Judicial District Court	–	–

Education

Rice University		1973
University of Houston		1991

Judicial Record

In our data, Radack authored 143 published opinions for the court (2002–2011). Most cited: Lee v. State (205 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 Radack 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
2005	Lee v. State	176 S.W.3d 452	205
2005	Davis v. State	177 S.W.3d 355	140
2002	Robinson v. Texas Department of Protective & Regulatory Services	89 S.W.3d 679	125
2010	Figueroa v. Davis	318 S.W.3d 53	112
2002	Keo v. Vu	76 S.W.3d 725	109
2005	Brown v. Swett & Crawford of Texas, Inc.	178 S.W.3d 373	97
2003	Foster v. State	101 S.W.3d 490	94
2003	Greene v. State	124 S.W.3d 789	88
2007	Richardson-Eagle, Inc. v. William M. Mercer, Inc.	213 S.W.3d 469	85
2005	Hajjar v. State	176 S.W.3d 554	84
2006	Brown v. State	183 S.W.3d 728	79
2006	Gordon v. Jones	196 S.W.3d 376	78
2003	U.S. Tire-Tech, Inc. v. Boeran, B.V.	110 S.W.3d 194	78
2006	Abdelnour v. Mid National Holdings, Inc.	190 S.W.3d 237	76
2003	Young v. State	95 S.W.3d 448	76

Showing the 15 most-cited of 143 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 Sherry J. Radack on?: Sherry J. Radack was a Justice of the Court of Appeals of Texas.

Sources

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1 year 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).