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The court's current selection method is partisan election.

Court of Appeals of Texas / Joined 2014 / Active

Steven Hughes

Justice, Court of Appeals of Texas

Steven Hughes is a Justice of the Court of Appeals of Texas, serving since 2014. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2014 · 11 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2014	Court of Appeals of Texas	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Hughes authored 845 published opinions for the court (1947–2017), plus 2 dissents and 2 concurrences. Most cited: Insurance Co. of North America v. Security Insurance Co. (152 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. 58 of these were attributed to Hughes 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
1990	Insurance Co. of North America v. Security Insurance Co.	790 S.W.2d 407	152
1984	Commonwealth Lloyd's Insurance Co. v. Thomas	678 S.W.2d 278	108
1984	In the Interest of C.D.	664 S.W.2d 851	99
1990	Houston Independent School District v. Houston Chronicle Publishing Co.	798 S.W.2d 580	90
1989	Goldberg v. United States Shoe Corp.	775 S.W.2d 751	86
1982	Ex Parte Miller	631 S.W.2d 825	86
1986	Johnson v. Edmonds	712 S.W.2d 651	85
1991	Miller v. Kendall	804 S.W.2d 933	79
1991	GT & MC, INC. v. Texas City Refining, Inc.	822 S.W.2d 252	76
1991	Mandell v. Hamman Oil and Refining Co.	822 S.W.2d 153	74
1991	Transmission Exchange Inc. v. Long	821 S.W.2d 265	72
1982	Gill v. Snow	644 S.W.2d 222	66
1958	Kingsbery v. Phillips Petroleum Company	315 S.W.2d 561	65
2015	Wayne Wright, Individually, and Wayne Wright, LLP, D/B/A Wayne Wright Injury Lawyers v. Erika v. Hernandez†	469 S.W.3d 744	63
1990	Alford v. Whaley	794 S.W.2d 920	59

Showing the 15 most-cited of 849 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 Steven Hughes on?: Steven Hughes is a Justice of the Court of Appeals of Texas.

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11 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).