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 1992 / Served to 2002

Douglas Gonzales

Judge, Louisiana Court of Appeal

Douglas Gonzales was a Judge of the Louisiana Court of Appeal, who joined the court in 1992. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1935 · age 91
Tenure: 1992–2002 · 10 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1992	Louisiana Court of Appeal	–	–

Education

University of Notre Dame
Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College

Judicial Record

In our data, Gonzales authored 98 published opinions for the court (1992–2002), plus 6 dissents and 4 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Patorno (141 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. 55 of these were attributed to Gonzales 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
2002	State v. Patorno	822 So. 2d 141	141
2001	Campbell v. Markel American Ins. Co.	822 So. 2d 617	44
2001	SOUTHERN CASING OF LA., INC. v. Houma Avionics, Inc.	809 So. 2d 1040	39
1998	Talbot v. C & C MILLWORKS, INC.	715 So. 2d 153	22
1999	Richard v. VIDRINE AUTOMOTIVE SERVICES	729 So. 2d 1174	21
2001	State v. Williams	804 So. 2d 932	19
1996	State ex rel. S.T.†	677 So. 2d 1071	17
2002	American Gaming Ass'n v. Riverboat Gaming	838 So. 2d 5	16
2002	Arnette v. NPC Services, Inc.	808 So. 2d 798	15
1996	Burford v. Burford†	677 So. 2d 722	15
2001	Perez v. Trahant	806 So. 2d 110	14
1997	In Interest of Lc	696 So. 2d 668	14
1997	State v. Albert	697 So. 2d 1355	14
1997	State v. Parfait	693 So. 2d 1232	14
2002	Shroyer v. Foster	814 So. 2d 83	13

Showing the 15 most-cited of 109 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 Douglas Gonzales on?: Douglas Gonzales 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).