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The court's current selection method is partisan election.

Louisiana Court of Appeal / Joined 2003 / Active

Edwin Lombard

Judge, Louisiana Court of Appeal

Edwin Lombard is a Judge of the Louisiana Court of Appeal, serving since 2003. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2003 · 23 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2003	Louisiana Court of Appeal	–	–

Education

Tulane University of Louisiana

Judicial Record

In our data, Lombard authored 475 published opinions for the court (2003–2022), plus 20 dissents and 25 concurrences. Most cited: State ex rel. D.R. (50 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. 365 of these were attributed to Lombard 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
2010	State ex rel. D.R.· Concurrence†	50 So. 3d 927	50
2003	Whitaker v. New Orleans Police Dept.	863 So. 2d 572	46
2005	State v. Sykes	900 So. 2d 156	41
2010	Metairie III v. Poche' Construction, Inc.†	49 So. 3d 446	37
2008	Becnel v. Grodner	982 So. 2d 891	36
2010	Myers v. National Union Fire Ins. Co.†	43 So. 3d 207	35
2008	Chalona v. Louisiana Citizens Property Insurance Corp.†	3 So. 3d 494	30
2009	Insurance Co. of North America v. Louisiana Power & Light Co.	10 So. 3d 264	28
2012	Sercovich v. Sercovich†	96 So. 3d 600	27
2009	Prejean v. Maintenance Enterprises, Inc.· Dissent†	8 So. 3d 766	27
2003	State v. Harris	857 So. 2d 16	26
2007	State v. Anderson	949 So. 2d 544	24
2013	Countrywide Home Loans Servicing, LP v. Thomas†	113 So. 3d 355	23
2011	State v. Francis· Concurrence†	60 So. 3d 703	23
2013	State v. Galle· Concurrence†	107 So. 3d 916	21

Showing the 15 most-cited of 520 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 Edwin Lombard on?: Edwin Lombard is a Judge of the Louisiana Court of Appeal.

Sources

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23 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).