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The court's current selection method is partisan election.

Supreme Court of Texas / Joined 1979 / Served to 1980

Will Garwood

Justice, Supreme Court of Texas

Will Garwood was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Texas, who joined the court in 1979. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1931–2011
Tenure: 1979–1980 · 1 yr

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1979	Supreme Court of Texas	–	–

Education

Princeton University
The University of Texas at Austin

Judicial Record

In our data, Garwood authored 5 published opinions for the court (1980), plus 1 dissent and 3 concurrences. Most cited: Brown v. American Transfer & Storage Co. (443 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. 4 of these were attributed to Garwood 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
1980	Brown v. American Transfer & Storage Co.· Concurrence†	601 S.W.2d 931	443
1980	Director of the Department of Agriculture & Environment v. Printing Industries Ass'n of Texas· Concurrence†	600 S.W.2d 264	233
1980	Bender v. Southern Pacific Transportation Co.	600 S.W.2d 257	155
1980	Allred v. Lowry	597 S.W.2d 353	113
1980	Knutson v. Morton Foods, Inc.· Concurrence†	603 S.W.2d 805	77
1980	Brines v. McIlhaney	596 S.W.2d 519	63
1980	Gee v. Read	606 S.W.2d 677	44
1980	Campbell v. Campbell	613 S.W.2d 236	4
1980	State v. Bounds· Dissent†	604 S.W.2d 74	1

Showing the 9 most-cited of 9 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 Will Garwood on?: Will Garwood was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Texas.

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1 year 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).