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

Terry Jennings

Justice, Court of Appeals of Texas

Terry Jennings 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, Jennings authored 258 published opinions for the court (2001–2018), plus 69 dissents and 42 concurrences. Most cited: Noland v. State (291 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. 205 of these were attributed to Jennings 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	Noland v. State	264 S.W.3d 144	291
2011	Ervin v. State· Concurrence†	331 S.W.3d 49	254
2001	Valero Marketing & Supply Co. v. Kalama International, Ltd. Liability Co.	51 S.W.3d 345	227
2006	Cervantes-Peterson v. Texas Department of Family & Protective Services	221 S.W.3d 244	210
2001	Smith v. Brown	51 S.W.3d 376	203
2005	Vasquez v. Texas Department of Protective & Regulatory Services· Dissent†	190 S.W.3d 189	186
2002	McKinny v. State	76 S.W.3d 463	161
2011	Jacob Matthew Kiffe v. State· Concurrence†	361 S.W.3d 104	154
2010	In re V.V.· Dissent†	349 S.W.3d 548	148
2005	Davis v. State· Concurrence†	177 S.W.3d 355	140
2006	Blackwell v. State· Dissent†	193 S.W.3d 1	139
2002	in the Interest of K.R.P., a Child†	80 S.W.3d 669	139
2006	Toliver v. Texas Department of Family & Protective Services	217 S.W.3d 85	138
2005	Cleveland v. State· Concurrence†	177 S.W.3d 374	136
2001	Butler v. Arrow Mirror & Glass, Inc.	51 S.W.3d 787	129

Showing the 15 most-cited of 369 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 Terry Jennings on?: Terry Jennings 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).