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 1986 / Served to 1988

Bruce Naccari

Judge, Louisiana Court of Appeal

Bruce Naccari was a Judge of the Louisiana Court of Appeal, who joined the court in 1986. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1986–1988 · 2 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1986	Louisiana Court of Appeal	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Naccari authored 15 published opinions for the court (1986–1988), plus 1 concurrence. Most cited: Dillenkoffer v. Dillenkoffer (15 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. 14 of these were attributed to Naccari 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
1986	Dillenkoffer v. Dillenkoffer	492 So. 2d 71	15
1986	Conrad v. Conrad†	497 So. 2d 22	4
1986	Greater New Orleans Expressway Commission v. Traver Oil Co.· Concurrence†	494 So. 2d 1204	4
1986	Sambola v. Sambola	493 So. 2d 206	4
1986	Washam v. Chancellor†	498 So. 2d 97	3
1988	State v. Tuscano†	520 So. 2d 1311	2
1986	Causin v. Blache†	498 So. 2d 101	2
1986	State v. Stewart†	493 So. 2d 227	2
1986	First Homestead Federal Savings & Loan Ass'n v. Harrington†	491 So. 2d 736	2
1986	In re Caceres†	491 So. 2d 738	2
1986	State v. Smith†	496 So. 2d 1221	1
1986	State v. Piazza†	496 So. 2d 1229	1
1986	State v. Dorsey†	498 So. 2d 95	0
1986	State v. Tuscano†	492 So. 2d 69	0
1986	State v. Thomassie†	490 So. 2d 1121	0

Showing the 15 most-cited of 16 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 Bruce Naccari on?: Bruce Naccari was a Judge of the Louisiana Court of Appeal.

Sources

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2 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).