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 1982 / Served to 2002

Charles Jr Grisbaum

Judge, Louisiana Court of Appeal

Charles Jr Grisbaum was a Judge of the Louisiana Court of Appeal, who joined the court in 1982. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1982–2002 · 20 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1982	Louisiana Court of Appeal	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Grisbaum authored 425 published opinions for the court (1982–2000), plus 7 dissents and 5 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Soler (122 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. 154 of these were attributed to Grisbaum 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
1994	State v. Soler	636 So. 2d 1069	122
1988	Sun Belt Constructors v. T & R DRAGLINE SERV., INC.	527 So. 2d 350	98
1998	State v. McCorkle	708 So. 2d 1212	85
1991	State v. Munoz	575 So. 2d 848	82
1993	State v. Bibb	626 So. 2d 913	76
1983	Ustica Enterprises, Inc. v. Costello	434 So. 2d 137	35
1994	State v. Spencer	631 So. 2d 1363	32
1988	Villaronga v. Gelpi Partnership Number 3	536 So. 2d 1307	30
1987	State v. Parker	506 So. 2d 675	25
1986	Riley v. Winn-Dixie Louisiana, Inc.	489 So. 2d 931	25
1984	Condoll v. Johns-Manville Sale Corp.	448 So. 2d 169	25
1985	Ashline v. Simon	466 So. 2d 622	23
1993	State v. Cittadino	628 So. 2d 251	22
1984	Kliebert Educ. Trust v. Watson Marines Serv., Inc.	454 So. 2d 855	22
1983	State v. Dirden	430 So. 2d 798	21

Showing the 15 most-cited of 437 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 Jr Grisbaum on?: Charles Jr Grisbaum was a Judge of the Louisiana Court of Appeal.

Sources

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20 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).