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 1990 / Active

Charles Allen Marvin

Judge, Louisiana Court of Appeal

Charles Allen Marvin is a Judge of the Louisiana Court of Appeal, serving since 1990. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1929–2003
Tenure: Since 1990 · 36 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1990	Louisiana Court of Appeal	–	–

Education

Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College

Judicial Record

In our data, Marvin authored 536 published opinions for the court (1975–2009), plus 2 dissents. Most cited: State v. Hudgins (245 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. 93 of these were attributed to Marvin 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
1988	State v. Hudgins	519 So. 2d 400	245
1988	Gonzales v. Babco Farm, Inc.	535 So. 2d 822	101
1995	State v. Pratt	653 So. 2d 174	94
1989	State v. Holland	544 So. 2d 461	79
1991	Lynn v. Berg Mechanical, Inc.	582 So. 2d 902	62
1992	State v. Braswell	605 So. 2d 702	59
1993	State v. Washington	621 So. 2d 114	50
1976	Sutton v. Langley	330 So. 2d 321	50
1996	Kosmitis v. Bailey	685 So. 2d 1177	47
1991	State v. Tucker	591 So. 2d 1208	47
1995	State v. Toney	651 So. 2d 387	46
1990	Holmes v. International Paper Co.	559 So. 2d 970	43
1990	Diesel Driving Academy, Inc. v. Ferrier	563 So. 2d 898	40
1996	State v. Gipson	677 So. 2d 544	39
1998	State v. Thomas	711 So. 2d 808	36

Showing the 15 most-cited of 539 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 Charles Allen Marvin on?: Charles Allen Marvin is a Judge of the Louisiana Court of Appeal.

Sources

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36 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).