How do judges of the Supreme Court of Louisiana reach the bench?

The court's current selection method is partisan election.

Supreme Court of Louisiana / Joined 1996 / Served to 1996

E. Joseph Bleich

Justice, Supreme Court of Louisiana

E. Joseph Bleich was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Louisiana, who joined the court in 1996. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1950 · age 76
Tenure: 1996–1996

Judicial service

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

Education

Louisiana Tech University
Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College

Judicial Record

In our data, Bleich authored 35 published opinions for the court (1996–1997), plus 1 dissent and 1 concurrence. Most cited: State v. Seals (223 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. 2 of these were attributed to Bleich 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
1996	State v. Seals	684 So. 2d 368	223
1996	State v. Wilson	685 So. 2d 1063	40
1997	Kennedy v. Kennedy	699 So. 2d 351	36
1996	Bullock v. Graham	681 So. 2d 1248	28
1996	State v. Frank	679 So. 2d 1365	27
1996	State v. Fontenot· Dissent†	675 So. 2d 271	7
1996	McNease v. MURPHY CONST. CO.	682 So. 2d 1250	5
1996	Stewart v. State	676 So. 2d 87	4
1996	State Ex Rel. Vaughn v. State	677 So. 2d 436	3
1996	Holt v. STATE DEPT. OF TRANSP. AND DEVELOPMENT	675 So. 2d 1080	3
1996	Walls v. State	692 So. 2d 368	0
1996	Holt v. Aetna Casualty & Surety Co.	684 So. 2d 938	0
1996	Langley v. Langley	684 So. 2d 935	0
1996	Montgomery v. Lafayette Parish School Bd.	683 So. 2d 274	0
1996	Thomas v. Armstrong World Industries, Inc.	681 So. 2d 1272	0

Showing the 15 most-cited of 37 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 Supreme Court of Louisiana reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is partisan election.
Which court was E. Joseph Bleich on?: E. Joseph Bleich was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Louisiana.

Sources

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Joined the court in 1996. Data as of 2026-03-31. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).