How do judges of the Louisiana Court of Appeal reach the bench?

The court's current selection method is partisan election.

Louisiana Court of Appeal / Joined 1979 / Served to 1986

Albert Tate Jr.

Judge, Louisiana Court of Appeal

Albert Tate Jr. was a Judge of the Louisiana Court of Appeal, who joined the court in 1979. He earned a law degree from Yale University in 1947. He previously served on the Supreme Court of Louisiana. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1920–1986
Tenure: 1979–1986 · 7 yrs
Education: George Washington 1941 · Yale

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1970	Supreme Court of Louisiana	–	–
1979	Louisiana Court of Appeal	–	–

Education

George Washington University	B.A.	1941
Yale University	LL.B.	1947

Judicial Record

In our data, Tate authored 126 published opinions for the court (1970–1979), plus 130 dissents and 148 concurrences. Most cited: Jordan v. Travelers Insurance Company (500 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. 407 of these were attributed to Tate 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
1971	Jordan v. Travelers Insurance Company†	245 So. 2d 151	500
1971	Weber v. Fidelity & Casualty Insurance Co. of NY†	250 So. 2d 754	333
1972	Hickman Ex Rel. Iles v. Southern Pacific Transport Co.· Concurrence†	262 So. 2d 385	281
1971	State Ex Rel. Jackson v. Henderson†	255 So. 2d 85	258
1971	Fulco v. Fulco†	254 So. 2d 603	239
1972	Boudreaux v. American Insurance Company· Dissent†	264 So. 2d 621	204
1971	State v. Square· Concurrence†	244 So. 2d 200	118
1971	State v. Smith†	245 So. 2d 327	101
1972	Ascension Builders, Inc. v. Jumonville· Dissent†	263 So. 2d 875	94
1972	Federal Insurance Co. v. Insurance Co. of No. Amer.· Concurrence†	263 So. 2d 871	84
1972	Deane v. McGee· Concurrence†	260 So. 2d 669	84
1971	Chaney v. Travelers Insurance Company· Concurrence†	249 So. 2d 181	73
1972	State v. Didier†	263 So. 2d 322	70
1972	Estes v. Estes†	258 So. 2d 857	67
1972	Foster v. Breaux†	270 So. 2d 526	62

Showing the 15 most-cited of 407 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 Louisiana Court of Appeal reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is partisan election.
Which court was Albert Tate Jr. on?: Albert Tate Jr. was a Judge of the Louisiana Court of Appeal.

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