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 2001 / Active

Sue Walker

Justice, Court of Appeals of Texas

Sue Walker is a Justice of the Court of Appeals of Texas, serving since 2001. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2001 · 25 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2001	Court of Appeals of Texas	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Walker authored 2,041 published opinions for the court (1872–2018), plus 53 dissents and 26 concurrences. Most cited: In the Interest of J.T.G., H.N.M., Children (756 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. 225 of these were attributed to Walker 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 the Interest of J.T.G., H.N.M., Children†	121 S.W.3d 117	756
2004	in the Interest of R.W.†	129 S.W.3d 732	687
2001	McQuarters v. State· Dissent†	58 S.W.3d 250	283
2003	In the Interest of K.M.†	98 S.W.3d 774	243
2003	West v. State†	121 S.W.3d 95	239
2005	Bray v. State	179 S.W.3d 725	219
2002	In Re Commitment of Mullens	92 S.W.3d 881	212
2003	in the Interest of W.E.C.†	110 S.W.3d 231	202
2003	Columbia Medical Center of Las Colinas v. Bush Ex Rel. Bush†	122 S.W.3d 835	184
2007	Cherry v. State†	215 S.W.3d 917	155
2003	Harris v. State	122 S.W.3d 871	139
2003	Dawson v. Briggs†	107 S.W.3d 739	136
2009	in the Interest of R.R., Jr. and V.R., Children†	294 S.W.3d 213	131
2004	University of North Texas v. Harvey†	124 S.W.3d 216	126
2001	North American Van Lines, Inc. v. Emmons	50 S.W.3d 103	126

Showing the 15 most-cited of 2,129 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 Sue Walker on?: Sue Walker is a Justice of the Court of Appeals of Texas.

Sources

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25 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).