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

David Williams

Judge, Louisiana Court of Appeal

David Williams is a Judge of the Louisiana Court of Appeal, serving since 1990. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 1990 · 36 yrs

Judicial service

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

Education

Wofford College

Judicial Record

In our data, Williams authored 924 published opinions for the court (1968–2020), plus 15 dissents and 5 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Willars (93 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. 545 of these were attributed to Williams 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
1995	State v. Willars	661 So. 2d 673	93
2008	State v. McKinney	976 So. 2d 802	66
1995	State v. Coates	661 So. 2d 571	55
2005	State v. Russell	920 So. 2d 866	44
1995	State v. Harvey	649 So. 2d 783	40
1999	State v. Howard	746 So. 2d 49	37
1994	Adams v. Caddo Parish School Bd.	631 So. 2d 70	37
1982	Pelican Elec. Contractors v. Neumeyer	419 So. 2d 1	35
1995	Knotts v. Snelling Temporaries	665 So. 2d 657	34
1995	Tucker v. Northeast Louisiana Tree Service	665 So. 2d 672	34
1993	State v. Griffin	618 So. 2d 680	34
1999	Oaks v. Dupuy	740 So. 2d 263	33
1986	State v. Jones	483 So. 2d 1207	33
2009	Semmes v. Semmes†	27 So. 3d 1024	31
1995	Boddie v. State	661 So. 2d 617	30

Showing the 15 most-cited of 944 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 David Williams on?: David Williams is a Judge of the Louisiana Court of Appeal.

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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).