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 2002 / Served to 2012

Edward Gaidry

Judge, Louisiana Court of Appeal

Edward Gaidry was a Judge of the Louisiana Court of Appeal, who joined the court in 2002. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 2002–2012 · 10 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2002	Louisiana Court of Appeal	–	–

Education

Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College
Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College

Judicial Record

In our data, Gaidry authored 180 published opinions for the court (2002–2012), plus 6 dissents and 13 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Friday (43 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. 145 of these were attributed to Gaidry 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
2011	State v. Friday†	73 So. 3d 913	43
2010	TCC Contractors, Inc. v. Hospital Service District No. 3 of the Parish of Lafourche†	52 So. 3d 1103	36
2011	Terrebonne Concrete, LLC v. CEC Enterprises, LLC†	76 So. 3d 502	34
2010	Berard v. L-3 Communications Vertex Aerospace, LLC†	35 So. 3d 334	33
2008	Peak Performance Physical Therapy & Fitness, LLC v. Hibernia Corp.†	992 So. 2d 527	31
2009	Gillmer v. Parish Sterling Stuckey†	30 So. 3d 782	29
2011	State ex rel. Division of Administration, Office of Risk Management v. National Union Fire Insurance Co.†	56 So. 3d 1236	25
2012	Leonard v. Reeves†	82 So. 3d 1250	23
2009	ASP Enterprises, Inc. v. Guillory†	22 So. 3d 964	22
2008	Jenkins v. State ex rel. Department of Transportation & Development†	993 So. 2d 749	20
2010	Thomas v. Comfort Center of Monroe, LA, Inc.†	48 So. 3d 1228	19
2011	Van Hoose v. Gravois†	70 So. 3d 1017	18
2009	PINEGAR v. Harris†	20 So. 3d 1081	18
2010	Thongsavanh v. Schexnayder†	40 So. 3d 989	17
2010	In RE INTERDICTION OF DeMARCO†	38 So. 3d 417	17

Showing the 15 most-cited of 199 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 Edward Gaidry on?: Edward Gaidry 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).