How do judges of the Supreme Court of Texas reach the bench?

The court's current selection method is partisan election.

Supreme Court of Texas / Joined 2001 / Served to 2002

Xavier Rodriguez

Justice, Supreme Court of Texas

Xavier Rodriguez was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Texas (9 judges, selected by partisan election), who joined the court in 2001. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1961 · age 65
Tenure: 2001–2002 · 1 yr
Education: Harvard 1983

Judicial service

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

Education

Harvard University

B.A.

1983

Judicial Record

In our data, Rodriguez authored 5 published opinions for the court (2001–2002), plus 1 dissent and 1 concurrence. Most cited: Texas a & M University-Kingsville v. Lawson (181 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. 7 of these were attributed to Rodriguez 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
2002	Texas a & M University-Kingsville v. Lawson· Dissent†	87 S.W.3d 518	181
2002	Texas Home Management, Inc. v. Peavy†	89 S.W.3d 30	170
2002	Southwest Key Program, Inc. v. Gil-Perez†	81 S.W.3d 269	159
2002	Argonaut Insurance Co. v. Baker†	87 S.W.3d 526	142
2001	Perry v. Del Rio· Concurrence†	67 S.W.3d 85	122
2002	In Re Doe 10†	78 S.W.3d 338	51
2002	Texas State Bank v. Amaro†	74 S.W.3d 392	0

Showing the 7 most-cited of 7 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 Xavier Rodriguez on?: Xavier Rodriguez 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).