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 1996 / Served to 2015

Tom Price

Judge, Texas Court of Criminal Appeals

Tom Price was a Judge of the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, who joined the court in 1996. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1945 · age 81
Tenure: 1996–2015 · 19 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1996	Texas Court of Criminal Appeals	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Price authored 218 published opinions for the court (1953–2014), plus 64 dissents and 75 concurrences. Most cited: Brooks v. State (6,365 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. 220 of these were attributed to Price 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
2010	Brooks v. State· Dissent†	323 S.W.3d 893	6,365
2006	Watson v. State	204 S.W.3d 404	4,543
2000	State v. Ross	32 S.W.3d 853	3,729
2014	Kelly, Sylvester†	436 S.W.3d 313	3,246
2003	Sims v. State	99 S.W.3d 600	2,381
2005	Goodspeed v. State· Concurrence†	187 S.W.3d 390	1,864
2003	Zuliani v. State	97 S.W.3d 589	1,844
1999	Hernandez v. State· Dissent†	988 S.W.2d 770	1,653
2004	Guevara v. State	152 S.W.3d 45	1,613
2007	State ex rel. Young v. Sixth Judicial District Court of Appeals at Texarkana†	236 S.W.3d 207	1,192
1998	Jackson v. State· Concurrence†	973 S.W.2d 954	1,105
2005	Andrews v. State	159 S.W.3d 98	1,093
2006	Ex Parte Owens	206 S.W.3d 670	1,078
2000	Jackson v. State	17 S.W.3d 664	1,065
2001	Burden v. State	55 S.W.3d 608	955

Showing the 15 most-cited of 357 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 Price on?: Tom Price was a Judge of the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals.

Sources

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19 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).