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The court's current selection method is partisan election.

Court of Appeals of Texas / Joined 2002 / Active

Steve McKeithen

Justice, Court of Appeals of Texas

Steve McKeithen 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, McKeithen authored 288 published opinions for the court (2003–2017), plus 8 dissents and 5 concurrences. Most cited: In Re Commitment of Almaguer (121 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. 158 of these were attributed to McKeithen 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
2003	In Re Commitment of Almaguer	117 S.W.3d 500	121
2004	Wright v. Sport Supply Group, Inc.	137 S.W.3d 289	75
2004	in the Interest of S.G.S., S.A.S. and S.L.L.†	130 S.W.3d 223	64
2017	Walker v. Hartman†	516 S.W.3d 71	56
2004	Moore v. Zeller	153 S.W.3d 262	54
2005	in the Interest of M.G.M. and V.A.M.†	163 S.W.3d 191	52
2003	Stanley v. CitiFinancial Mortg. Co., Inc.	121 S.W.3d 811	50
2004	Smart v. State	153 S.W.3d 118	45
2008	Christus Health Southeast Texas v. Broussard†	267 S.W.3d 531	43
2004	Flowers v. State	133 S.W.3d 853	41
2004	Fowler v. State	126 S.W.3d 307	41
2007	Christus St. Mary Hospital v. O'Banion†	227 S.W.3d 868	39
2004	In Re Martin	147 S.W.3d 453	38
2003	In Re Commitment of Morales	98 S.W.3d 288	38
2003	Brown v. Anderson	102 S.W.3d 245	37

Showing the 15 most-cited of 301 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 Steve McKeithen on?: Steve McKeithen 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).