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 1996 / Served to 2011

Charles B. Peatross

Judge, Louisiana Court of Appeal

Charles B. Peatross was a Judge of the Louisiana Court of Appeal, who joined the court in 1996. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1940–2015
Tenure: 1996–2011 · 15 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1996	Louisiana Court of Appeal	–	–

Education

Tulane University of Louisiana
Tulane University of Louisiana

Judicial Record

In our data, Peatross authored 229 published opinions for the court (1997–2011), plus 4 dissents and 3 concurrences. Most cited: Bogues v. Louisiana Energy Consultants, Inc. (46 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. 183 of these were attributed to Peatross 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
2011	Bogues v. Louisiana Energy Consultants, Inc.†	71 So. 3d 1128	46
1997	Morehead v. Ford Motor Co.	694 So. 2d 650	35
2011	Ebarb v. Matlock†	69 So. 3d 516	27
2010	Wagoner v. CHEVRON USA INC.· Separate†	55 So. 3d 12	25
1997	Bockman v. Caraway	691 So. 2d 815	24
2011	State v. Caldwell†	74 So. 3d 248	22
1999	Steier v. Heller	732 So. 2d 787	22
1999	State v. Minnifield	727 So. 2d 1207	22
2010	State v. Logan†	34 So. 3d 528	21
2004	State v. Stephan	880 So. 2d 201	21
2001	Mills v. Wilkerson	785 So. 2d 69	21
2009	State v. Harris†	20 So. 3d 1121	18
2001	Huffman v. Goodman	784 So. 2d 718	18
2011	Morgan v. Glazers Wholesale Drug Co.†	79 So. 3d 417	17
2001	State v. Bugbee	781 So. 2d 748	17

Showing the 15 most-cited of 237 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 B. Peatross on?: Charles B. Peatross was a Judge of the Louisiana Court of Appeal.

Sources

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15 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).