How do judges of the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals reach the bench?

The court's current selection method is partisan election.

Texas Court of Criminal Appeals / Joined 1939 / Served to 1953

Tom L. Beauchamp

Judge, Texas Court of Criminal Appeals

Tom L. Beauchamp was a Judge of the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, who joined the court in 1939. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1882 · age 144
Tenure: 1939–1953 · 14 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1939	Texas Court of Criminal Appeals	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Beauchamp authored 1,290 published opinions for the court (1939–1953), plus 10 dissents and 5 concurrences. Most cited: Wolfe v. State (97 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. 943 of these were attributed to Beauchamp 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
1944	Wolfe v. State· Dissent	178 S.W.2d 274	97
1942	Ex Parte Carson	159 S.W.2d 126	89
1948	Garcia v. State	210 S.W.2d 574	85
1952	Gephart v. State· Separate†	249 S.W.2d 612	84
1948	Ross v. State†	153 Tex. Crim. 312	69
1941	Grice v. State†	142 Tex. Crim. 4	61
1947	Harvey v. State†	150 Tex. Crim. 332	56
1948	Ex Parte Hayden· Separate	215 S.W.2d 620	48
1951	Cox v. State· Separate†	157 Tex. Crim. 134	46
1950	McKay v. State†	155 Tex. Crim. 416	45
1939	McNaulty v. State· Separate	135 S.W.2d 987	44
1949	Slusser v. State	232 S.W.2d 727	41
1947	Dearing v. State· Concurrence†	151 Tex. Crim. 6	40
1942	Square v. State· Separate†	145 Tex. Crim. 219	40
1951	Brice v. State· Separate†	242 S.W.2d 433	39

Showing the 15 most-cited of 1,630 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 Texas Court of Criminal Appeals reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is partisan election.
Which court was Tom L. Beauchamp on?: Tom L. Beauchamp was a Judge of the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals.

Sources

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14 years on the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals. Data as of 2026-03-31. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).