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The court's current selection method is partisan election.

Supreme Court of Texas / Joined 2001 / Served to 2013

Wallace B. Jefferson

Justice, Supreme Court of Texas

Wallace B. Jefferson was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Texas, who joined the court in 2001. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1963 · age 63
Tenure: 2001–2013 · 12 yrs

Judicial service

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

Judicial Record

In our data, Jefferson authored 100 published opinions for the court (2001–2013), plus 25 dissents and 20 concurrences. Most cited: Texas Department of Parks & Wildlife v. Miranda (5,473 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. 68 of these were attributed to Jefferson 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
2004	Texas Department of Parks & Wildlife v. Miranda· Dissent†	133 S.W.3d 217	5,473
2002	In the interest of C.H.†	89 S.W.3d 17	4,662
2003	King Ranch, Inc. v. Chapman†	118 S.W.3d 742	2,668
2003	J.M. Davidson, Inc. v. Webster	128 S.W.3d 223	1,500
2002	County of Cameron v. Brown· Concurrence†	80 S.W.3d 549	1,421
2009	The City of El Paso v. Lilli M. Heinrich†	284 S.W.3d 366	1,170
2005	In Re Kellogg Brown & Root, Inc.	166 S.W.3d 732	1,006
2003	Wichita Falls State Hospital v. Taylor	106 S.W.3d 692	938
2003	City of San Antonio v. City of Boerne	111 S.W.3d 22	931
2005	Diversicare General Partner, Inc. v. Rubio· Concurrence†	185 S.W.3d 842	874
2003	Walker v. Gutierrez	111 S.W.3d 56	772
2002	American Type Culture Collection, Inc. v. Coleman†	83 S.W.3d 801	765
2002	Lee Lewis Construction, Inc. v. Harrison· Concurrence†	70 S.W.3d 778	754
2013	In the Interest of E.C.R., Child†	402 S.W.3d 239	733
2008	20801, INC. v. Parker	249 S.W.3d 392	722

Showing the 15 most-cited of 145 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 Supreme Court of Texas reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is partisan election.
Which court was Wallace B. Jefferson on?: Wallace B. Jefferson was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Texas.

Sources

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