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The court's current selection method is partisan election.

Court of Appeals of Texas / Joined 1994 / Active

Terrie Livingston

Justice, Court of Appeals of Texas

Terrie Livingston is a Justice of the Court of Appeals of Texas, serving since 1994. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 1994 · 32 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1994	Court of Appeals of Texas	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Livingston authored 691 published opinions for the court (1995–2017), plus 18 dissents and 18 concurrences. Most cited: in the Interest of M.R. and W.M., Children (386 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. 217 of these were attributed to Livingston 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
2007	in the Interest of M.R. and W.M., Children†	243 S.W.3d 807	386
2009	Kim v. State	283 S.W.3d 473	316
1998	Coggeshall v. State	961 S.W.2d 639	291
2001	McQuarters v. State	58 S.W.3d 250	283
2002	In the Interest of T.D.C.· Dissent†	91 S.W.3d 865	275
2006	in the Interest of S.B. and Y.B., Minor Children†	207 S.W.3d 877	264
2005	State v. Ballman	157 S.W.3d 65	257
1999	Frazier v. Khai Loong Yu†	987 S.W.2d 607	219
1995	In the Interest of W.S.†	899 S.W.2d 772	216
2008	City of the Colony v. North Texas Municipal Water District	272 S.W.3d 699	207
2003	in the Interest of C.A.J., a Child†	122 S.W.3d 888	201
2002	Boyd v. Boyd	67 S.W.3d 398	198
2008	Davis v. State	268 S.W.3d 683	177
2001	Patterson v. State	46 S.W.3d 294	170
1997	Fish v. Tandy Corp.	948 S.W.2d 886	160

Showing the 15 most-cited of 728 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 Terrie Livingston on?: Terrie Livingston is a Justice of the Court of Appeals of Texas.

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32 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).