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 1991 / Served to 2012

Charles Jones

Judge, Louisiana Court of Appeal

Charles Jones was a Judge of the Louisiana Court of Appeal, who joined the court in 1991. They previously served on the Appellate Court of Illinois. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1991–2012 · 21 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1974	Appellate Court of Illinois	–	–
1991	Louisiana Court of Appeal	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Jones authored 1,201 published opinions for the court (1954–2012), plus 132 dissents and 38 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Egana (117 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. 567 of these were attributed to Jones 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	State v. Egana	703 So. 2d 223	117
1970	Adams v. J. I. Case Co.	261 N.E.2d 1	102
1998	Asbestos v. Bordelon, Inc.	726 So. 2d 926	83
1977	People v. Wade	366 N.E.2d 528	65
1977	Moore v. McDaniel· Dissent†	362 N.E.2d 382	63
1977	People v. Garlick· Dissent†	360 N.E.2d 1121	60
1985	Charles Hester Enterprises, Inc. v. Illinois Founders Insurance	484 N.E.2d 349	59
1976	Brewer v. Custom Builders Corp.	356 N.E.2d 565	59
1995	State v. Allen	661 So. 2d 1078	57
1984	Zimmermann v. Netemeyer	462 N.E.2d 502	57
1972	Department of Mental Health v. Brueckner	288 N.E.2d 520	55
2002	Glass v. Alton Ochsner Medical Foundation	832 So. 2d 403	54
1978	Roper v. Markle	375 N.E.2d 934	53
1981	Beaver v. Country Mutual Insurance Co.	420 N.E.2d 1058	49
1978	Chapman v. Foggy	375 N.E.2d 865	48

Showing the 15 most-cited of 1,371 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 Charles Jones on?: Charles Jones was a Judge of the Louisiana Court of Appeal.

Sources

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21 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).