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 1995 / Active

Brady Michael Fitzsimmons

Judge, Louisiana Court of Appeal

Brady Michael Fitzsimmons is a Judge of the Louisiana Court of Appeal, serving since 1995. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1941 · age 85
Tenure: Since 1995 · 31 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1995	Louisiana Court of Appeal	–	–

Education

Spring Hill College

Judicial Record

In our data, Fitzsimmons authored 102 published opinions for the court (1995–2004), plus 9 dissents and 29 concurrences. Most cited: Connelly v. Lee (25 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. 111 of these were attributed to Fitzsimmons 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
1997	Connelly v. Lee	699 So. 2d 411	25
1997	Trahan v. Rally's Hamburgers, Inc.	696 So. 2d 637	23
1997	Lee v. Magnolia Garden Apartments	694 So. 2d 1142	22
1997	Strickland v. Layrisson	696 So. 2d 621	20
1997	Miramon v. Bradley	701 So. 2d 475	17
1997	Barrino v. E. BATON ROUGE SCHOOL BD.	697 So. 2d 27	16
2004	Dow Chemical Co. Louisiana Operations Complex Cellulose & Light Hydrocarbons Plants, Part 70 Air Permit Major Modifications & Emission v. Reduction Credits· Concurrence†	885 So. 2d 5	14
1997	State v. Barnett	700 So. 2d 1005	14
1997	Bourg v. Bourg	701 So. 2d 1378	12
1997	Harvey v. Amoco Production Co.	696 So. 2d 672	12
1997	Marie v. John Deere Ins. Co.	691 So. 2d 1327	11
1997	Frain v. City of Baton Rouge	704 So. 2d 1276	10
1997	Shinew v. Luciano Refrigerated Transport, Inc.	706 So. 2d 140	10
1997	Alford v. Home Ins. Co.	701 So. 2d 1375	10
2004	Stephens v. LeBlanc†	879 So. 2d 262	8

Showing the 15 most-cited of 140 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 Brady Michael Fitzsimmons on?: Brady Michael Fitzsimmons is a Judge of the Louisiana Court of Appeal.

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31 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).