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 2003 / Active

Billy Ezell

Judge, Louisiana Court of Appeal

Billy Ezell is a Judge of the Louisiana Court of Appeal, serving since 2003. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2003 · 23 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2003	Louisiana Court of Appeal	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Ezell authored 420 published opinions for the court (2003–2019), plus 12 dissents and 3 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Johnlouis (84 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. 211 of these were attributed to Ezell 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
2009	State v. Johnlouis	22 So. 3d 1150	84
2007	State v. Bailey	968 So. 2d 247	39
2010	State v. Quinn	38 So. 3d 1102	38
2006	State v. Whatley	943 So. 2d 601	37
2008	State v. McGinnis	981 So. 2d 881	35
2006	State v. Griffin	940 So. 2d 845	32
2003	State v. Buckley	839 So. 2d 1193	31
2006	Reed v. Abshire	921 So. 2d 1224	28
2005	McIntosh v. McElveen	893 So. 2d 986	28
2010	Raymond v. Government Employees Insurance	40 So. 3d 1179	26
2009	State v. Batiste	25 So. 3d 981	25
2006	State v. Johnson	941 So. 2d 696	25
2012	State v. Perkins†	85 So. 3d 810	24
2010	Richardson v. Lil' River Harvesting	33 So. 3d 418	23
2005	State v. Pitre	893 So. 2d 1009	23

Showing the 15 most-cited of 435 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 is Billy Ezell on?: Billy Ezell is a Judge of the Louisiana Court of Appeal.

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23 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).