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 1974 / Served to 1984

Cleveland J. Marcel

Judge, Louisiana Court of Appeal

Cleveland J. Marcel was a Judge of the Louisiana Court of Appeal, who joined the court in 1974. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1974–1984 · 10 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1974	Louisiana Court of Appeal	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Marcel authored 19 published opinions for the court (1974–1984). Most cited: State v. Butler (31 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. 17 of these were attributed to Marcel 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
1984	State v. Butler	450 So. 2d 764	31
1984	Troxclair v. Parish of St. Charles	450 So. 2d 759	15
1974	Frederic v. Frederic†	290 So. 2d 469	3
1975	LeBlanc v. Gene Cass, Inc.†	306 So. 2d 768	2
1975	Luquette v. Colonial Sugars Co.†	306 So. 2d 771	2
1974	Garden Hill Land Corp. v. Succession of Cambre†	299 So. 2d 403	2
1974	Shaw v. Van Dyke†	287 So. 2d 808	2
1974	Cambre v. Texas & Pacific Railway Co.†	303 So. 2d 622	1
1974	Doughty v. General Motors Corp.†	303 So. 2d 202	1
1974	Giardina v. Marrero Furniture Co.†	300 So. 2d 543	1
1974	Kelly v. Bonnet†	299 So. 2d 884	1
1974	David v. Insurance Co. of North America†	288 So. 2d 876	1
1974	Lennox Industries, Inc. v. Air Conditioning & Sheet Metal Co.†	303 So. 2d 620	0
1974	Smith v. New Orleans Public Service, Inc.†	299 So. 2d 564	0
1974	Davis v. Bankers Union Life Insurance†	297 So. 2d 692	0

Showing the 15 most-cited of 19 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 Cleveland J. Marcel on?: Cleveland J. Marcel was a Judge of the Louisiana Court of Appeal.

Sources

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10 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).