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

The court's current selection method is partisan election.

Supreme Court of Louisiana / Joined 1992 / Served to 2013

Catherine D. Kimball

Justice, Supreme Court of Louisiana

Catherine D. Kimball was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Louisiana, who joined the court in 1992. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1945 · age 81
Tenure: 1992–2013 · 20 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1992	Supreme Court of Louisiana	–	–

Education

Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College

Judicial Record

In our data, Kimball authored 566 published opinions for the court (1993–2012), plus 21 dissents and 18 concurrences. Most cited: State Ex Rel. Glover v. State (5,664 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. 76 of these were attributed to Kimball 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
1995	State Ex Rel. Glover v. State	660 So. 2d 1189	5,664
1994	Reynolds v. Select Properties, Ltd.	634 So. 2d 1180	638
2007	Duncan v. USAA Ins. Co.	950 So. 2d 544	503
2000	State v. Casey	775 So. 2d 1022	484
2000	Wainwright v. Fontenot	774 So. 2d 70	470
1998	Brown v. Texas-LA Cartage, Inc.	721 So. 2d 885	420
1993	State v. Shelton	621 So. 2d 769	406
1996	In Re Caulfield	683 So. 2d 714	333
1995	Resweber v. Haroil Const. Co.	660 So. 2d 7	321
1994	Mathieu v. Imperial Toy Corp.	646 So. 2d 318	318
2009	Guillory v. Lee	16 So. 3d 1104	303
2003	Burguieres v. Pollingue	843 So. 2d 1049	286
1993	State v. Bourque	622 So. 2d 198	265
2006	Badeaux v. Southwest Computer Bureau, Inc.	929 So. 2d 1211	248
1994	Segura v. Frank	630 So. 2d 714	242

Showing the 15 most-cited of 605 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 Louisiana reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is partisan election.
Which court was Catherine D. Kimball on?: Catherine D. Kimball was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Louisiana.

Sources

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