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 2006 / Served to 2012

Steve C. Hilbig

Justice, Court of Appeals of Texas

Steve C. Hilbig was a Justice of the Court of Appeals of Texas, who joined the court in 2006. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 2006–2012 · 6 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2006	Court of Appeals of Texas	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Hilbig authored 34 published opinions for the court (2007–2012), plus 12 dissents and 10 concurrences. Most cited: in the Interest of H.G., K.G., J.G. and T.G., Children (77 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. 53 of these were attributed to Hilbig 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
2008	in the Interest of H.G., K.G., J.G. and T.G., Children†	267 S.W.3d 120	77
2008	Jones v. King†	255 S.W.3d 156	66
2010	in the Interest of S.M.D., a Child†	329 S.W.3d 8	63
2011	Mayberry v. State· Dissent†	351 S.W.3d 507	42
2007	Magana v. State· Dissent†	230 S.W.3d 411	39
2009	Lemon v. State· Concurrence†	298 S.W.3d 705	38
2008	Rivera v. State†	271 S.W.3d 301	33
2008	Fulcher v. State· Dissent†	274 S.W.3d 713	31
2008	Longoria v. Exxon Mobil Corp.†	255 S.W.3d 174	31
2007	State v. Cullen· Concurrence†	227 S.W.3d 278	31
2008	Ex Parte Joe T. ESTRADA Jr.†	398 S.W.3d 723	28
2012	Killam Ranch Properties, Ltd. v. Webb County, Texas†	376 S.W.3d 146	27
2011	Hardy v. Matter· Concurrence†	350 S.W.3d 329	27
2008	Bouyer v. State†	264 S.W.3d 265	26
2008	Rodriguez v. State†	274 S.W.3d 760	25

Showing the 15 most-cited of 56 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 Steve C. Hilbig on?: Steve C. Hilbig was a Justice of the Court of Appeals of Texas.

Sources

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6 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).