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 2006 / Served to 2012

Clarence E. McManus

Judge, Louisiana Court of Appeal

Clarence E. McManus was a Judge of the Louisiana Court of Appeal, who joined the court in 2006. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 2006–2012 · 6 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2006	Louisiana Court of Appeal	–	–

Education

Tulane University of Louisiana

Judicial Record

In our data, McManus authored 445 published opinions for the court (1999–2012), plus 1 concurrence. Most cited: State v. Jones (150 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. 71 of these were attributed to McManus 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
2008	State v. Jones	985 So. 2d 234	150
2007	State v. Pearson	975 So. 2d 646	150
2005	State v. Washington	916 So. 2d 1171	123
2000	State v. Wickem	759 So. 2d 961	109
2007	State v. Dorsey	960 So. 2d 1127	95
2004	State v. Roca	866 So. 2d 867	51
2006	State v. Gant	942 So. 2d 1099	47
2008	Dufrene v. Gautreau Family, LLC	980 So. 2d 68	46
2000	State v. Villarreal	759 So. 2d 126	44
2003	State v. Olivieri	860 So. 2d 207	40
2005	State v. Condley	904 So. 2d 881	35
2003	State v. Rodriguez	839 So. 2d 106	33
2002	State v. Nelson	822 So. 2d 796	31
2007	State v. Lauff	953 So. 2d 813	30
2005	State v. McGee	894 So. 2d 398	30

Showing the 15 most-cited of 446 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 Clarence E. McManus on?: Clarence E. McManus was a Judge of the Louisiana Court of Appeal.

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6 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).